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Liz McClintock, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Bridgeway Group. Liz has over 25 years of experience offering consulting services to and designing and implementing negotiation, conflict management, and leadership training programs for both public and private sector organizations around the world.
Liz’s work is focused on conflict and post-conflict environments, with both public and private sector organizations.In her work, Liz has advised the US government and various United Nations units, including the Office of the Special Adviser of the Secretary General to Burundi, on preparation for and conduct of negotiation and dialogue processes. Liz has supervised multi-year projects in Burundi, Timor-Leste and Liberia. She currently manages a multi-country capacity building program for the World Health Organization, helping member states to manage multisectoral collaboration efforts more effectively to combat antimicrobial resistance. Past work with WHO has resulted in a series of publications, including the book Negotiating Public Health in a Globalized World: Global Health Diplomacy in Action, with co-authors, D. Fairman, D. Chigas, and N. Drager (Springer 2012)
Liz is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Negotiations at The Fletcher School (Tufts University). Liz earned an A.B. at Dartmouth College and received an MALD and a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. She is a proud Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Morocco).
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Professor Raphael Heffron is Professor in Energy Justice and the Social Contract. In 2020, he was appointed as Senior Counsel at Janson law firm in Brussels (Belgium). Professor Heffron is a qualified Barrister-at-Law, and a graduate of both Oxford (MSc) and Cambridge (MPhil & PhD).
His work all has a principal focus on achieving a sustainable and just transition to a low-carbon economy. He has published over 180 publications of different types, is the most cited scholar in his field worldwide (2600+Scopus) and has given just over 180 keynotes or guest lectures in 51 countries worldwide.
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Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld is professor in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Learning and Design, Aalborg University. Ph.D. from Roskilde University and former Dean, The Faculty of Humanities, Aalborg University (AAU). Main field of research is networked learning, human-centered design, implementation of ICT and learning in organisations, and ICT for development. Currently, she is engaged in research capacity development projects in Northern Uganda on Transforming Education, and on Green Charcoal Inclusive Innovation. Has authored and co-authored several books, papers, articles, and reports. Please have a look at https://vbn.aau.dk/en/persons/100287/publications/
L., Hodgson, V., & McConnell, D. (Eds.) (2012). Exploring the Theory, Pedagogy
and Practice of Networked Learning. New York: Springer Science+Business Media,
318 p.
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Dean of Simon Business School. University of Rochester
Professor of Economics and Business
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Maurizio Teli is Associate Professor in the Department of Planning at the University of Aalborg, Denmark. He holds a PhD in Sociology and Social Research and has always worked in interdisciplinary contexts focusing on the political dimensions of the production and use of digital technologies. With an ethnographic sensibility, he engages in and contributes to the participatory design of digital technologies. He has worked in or coordinated a few EU funded projects, for example the PIE News/Commonfare H2020 project and as part of the Grassroots Radio project. Now, he is Chair of the Centre for Sustainable and Digital Transformation at the TECH Faculty of IT and Design at Aalborg University.
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Assistant Professor at Aalborg University (Denmark) in the Computer Science department.
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Project coordinator for a youth initiative bringing together young people across Europe and Africa to engage with politics and develop their perspectives on key global challenges.
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Ms Aferdita Bytyqi is the Senior Coordinator of the Secretariat of the Lancet and Financial Times Commission. She directs and coordinates the implementation of the Commission work plan, the report and its derivative technical materials, and all activities related to the Commission and Secretariat.
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Dr. McKay is a sociologist and assistant professor of Medicine, Health, and Society with a secondary appointment in Health Policy at Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is also an Associate Director of the Vanderbilt University LGBTQ+ Policy Lab.
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Michael Jakob is a senior fellow at the Ecologic Institute in Berlin, and a research fellow at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC). His research investigates climate change mitigation in developing countries, the political economy of climate policy, and the interlinkages between environmental policy and human well-being.