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Cultural manager with expertise in cultural policies, diversity and cultural rights. Trained at the National University of Tres de Febrero, he teaches at the National University of the Arts. His research field is cultural policies, from a rights-based and intercultural perspective. He has co-edited the book "Cultural management and policy in Latin America", published by Routledge. Between 2011 and 2015 he served as National Director for the promotion of Cultural Rights and Cultural Diversity at the national level in Argentina.
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They/She is a Researcher in Assistive Technology at the Global Disability Innovation hub and also member of the Global Cooperation on Assistive Technology, founder of the Neurodivergent Staff Network at UCL, Fair Recruitment Specialist at UCL and member of the UCL Disability Equality Steering Group.
Zuleima is passionate about multidisciplinary research that aims to achieve technology that is affordable, appropriate, accessible and inclusive. Their/Her research interests are human-computer interaction, assistive and wearable technology, participatory research, social media, social model of disability, adult autism, low resource settings and biomedical engineering (medical devices, biomechanics, biomedical instrumentation, signal processing).
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Dr. Daniel J. Rogers is the Co-founder and Executive Director of The Global Disinformation Index. Prior to founding GDI, he founded and led Terbium Labs, an information security and dark web intelligence startup and before that worked in the US Intelligence Community. Dr. Rogers also serves as an Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs and is a Security Fellow of the Truman National Security Project.
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Sheelah Connolly is a Senior Research Officer at Economic and Social Research Institute, Ireland. She has an MSc in Health Economics from the University of York (England) and a PhD in Public Health from Queens University Belfast. Her research interests include the social and economic determinates of health and the operation of health systems. For the past eight years, she has worked and led on a body of working examining health system reform in Ireland.
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Lakmini Fernando is a Research Economist at the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka with primary areas of research interest in public finance, economic development, climate change and environmental economics.
Lakmini holds a BSc in Agriculture from the University of Peradeniya, a Master of Development Economics (Advanced) from the University of Queensland, Australia and a PhD in Economics from the University of Adelaide, Australia.
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Dr. Christian Busch is the bestselling author of The Serendipity Mindset: The Art & Science of Creating Good Luck – “a wise, exciting, and life-changing book” (Arianna Huffington) that provides “excellent practical guidance for all” (Paul Polman, former CEO, Unilever) – and an internationally known expert in the areas of innovation, purpose-driven leadership, and serendipity. He is the director of the CGA Global Economy Program at New York University (NYU), and also teaches at the London School of Economics (LSE). He is a cofounder of Leaders on Purpose and the Sandbox Network, and a former director of LSE's Innovation Lab. His work has been featured by outlets such as the Strategic Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, The Guardian, Washington Post, and the BBC. He is a regular speaker at conferences such as the World Economic Forum, TEDx, and Financial Times Summit, and is a member of the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Expert Forum, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and on the Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 thinkers "most likely to shape the future." Twitter: @ChrisSerendip.