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I am currently working as an intern with the sport team of Social and Human Sciences Sector at UNESCO, and my work focuses on the communication and partnership of the delivery of Fit for Life, UNESCO's new sport-based flagship. I am passionate about sport for development and sports diplomacy, as well as keen to explore relevant policy and practice in these fields.
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Multilingual professional with 15 years experience in an international, intergovernmental and intercultural environment managing and implementing national and international projects. Strong interpersonal and diplomatic skills working with 193 countries and a network of partners in actualizing projects in UNESCO’s fields of competence namely: Education, Sciences, Culture, Communication and Information. Experienced in strategic planning and implementation of results-based programmes. Proficient in writing analytical briefs, reports and presentation of recommendations based on in-depth research
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Marie Pessiot holds a Master degree in political sciences from Sciences Po Toulouse and a Master in Latin American studies from the Institut of Latin Amercian Studies of La Sorbonne nouvelle. Her research focused on indigenous movements in Ecuador and Argentina.
She has joined Unesco in 2020 to work on stakeholder engagement and partnerships for the Moroccan office. She’s working as a program manager for UNESCO in the project “HABITABLE, linking climate change, habitability and social tipping point”, one of the most ambitious U.E. funded projects on climate change and migration.
She previously worked for Oxfam in Morocco as a migration adviser. She was involved in studies on migration policies and on access to health services for migrants.
She has also worked as a journalist for France 24 in Bogota, specializing in a number of subjects, ranging from climate change to migration and culture, and as program manager for the French Ministry of Foreign affairs in Angola and Cameroon.
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I am a Teaching Associate Professor at Laboratory for Research-informed ECEC and School Development (LSP), Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University, Denmark. I am especially interested in how partnerships between research, policy and practice can contribute to equity and inclusive learning environments in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) and Schools.
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Professor Emeritus School of Labour Studies and Department of Economics at McMaster University. Economic historian by training but research focus on the changing nature of labour markets, the rise of precarious employment and its impact on household wellbeing. See https://pepso.ca.
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Dr. Tom McDowell is a Lecturer in the Department of Public Policy and Administration at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. He is was a lead author of Southern Ontario's Basic Income Experience and several articles on basic income. He is also author of Neoliberal Parliamentarism: The Decline of the Ontario Legislature (University of Toronto Press, 2021).
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Professor in Environmental- and Energy system. Most research about food waste and packaging, especially how packaging can be adapted to influence consumer behavior with regard to food waste in households.
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Policy editor, The New Humanitarian. Adjunct Professor, New York University, Wagner School of Public Service, “Accountability in Humanitarian Response,” Spring 2014-Present. Associate Professor, Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, “Accountability in Humanitarian Response,” Spring 2013-Present.
Jessica Alexander is a humanitarian aid professional with experience in operations, evaluation and policy. Her career includes global deployments spanning Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. She has conducted large scale evaluations, assessments and policy research for the UN, Red Cross and various NGOs on a range of humanitarian issues including: child protection, shelter, emergency education, coordination, accountability and humanitarian effectiveness. She has also overseen programming in Sudan, South Sudan and Haiti.
Jessica is two-time Fulbright grantee who received the award to research Japan’s approach to disaster risk reduction in 2019 and the use of child soldiers in Sierra Leone in 2006. She received a Master of Public Health and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University. She is an editor at The New Humanitarian and teaches humanitarian affairs at numerous global universities. She has authored policy papers and mainstream articles about the humanitarian sector and is the author of “Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid."
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My focus in the area of policy has its roots in public health issues, with particular emphasis on issues of injury and violence, as well as disaster preparedness, substance use disorders and public health systems and services. I have held academic appointments at Yale University in the School of Public Health and School of Medicine and was the director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the CDC and later the Executive Director of Defense Health Horizons, as well as spending a year working in the U.S. Senate. I am Past President of the American Public Health Association, Past President of the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research, and currently serve on the boards of several non-profit organizations. Currently, I am on the faculty of the Yale School of Public Health and also do consulting work in public health and injury and violence prevention.
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Between East and West, North and South, I was born at 337 ppm and I'm looking forward to global positive change! With relevant international experience, I've been working in diverse consultancy, research, teaching, practice and project management positions in Europe and Asia, at: UNESCO's Inclusive Policy Lab Paris, FR; the Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University, DK; the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, CN; the University of the West of England, UK; Barcelona Tech - UPC, ES; Studio Fuksas - Rome, IT; Eindhoven University of Technology, NL; and the University of Lisbon, PT.