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Kenneth Nsah, also called Nsah Mala, is a poet, writer, interdisciplinary scholar, foresighter and futurist. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature & Environmental Humanities from Aarhus University (Denmark.) His expertise and research interests include: ecocriticism and environmental humanities; blue and energy humanities; education for sustainable development; indigenous peoples and indigenous knowledge systems; Anglophone and Francophone African literatures; comparative cultural and literary studies; environmental communication; foresight and futures; and creative writing; among others.
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I am a Senior Policy Associate at J-PAL Europe where I help promote evidence-based policy in Europe.
Prior to joining J-PAL in 2020, I worked at the World Food Program as a program policy officer, focusing on social protection and safety nets issues. Before that, he conducted research on labor migration and labor market reforms as a research assistant for the Center for Technology and Economic Development.
I hold a master’s degree in international economic policy from Sciences Po Paris and a bachelor’s degree in economics from New York University Abu Dhabi.
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United Kingdom. A social development practitioner with experience in research, academic teaching, practice based work and capacity building in the field of social development, social policy, and citizenship, with a number of focus areas. These include: diversity and social equality, with an emphasis on gender policy and planning, disability, and child rights; urban displacement, including involuntary resettlement, and forced eviction; and pro-poor livelihoods and employment rights. In addition to academic research, my practice based work has included social research and strategy development on behalf of bilateral and multilateral development agencies, and social impact assessment for private sector infrastructure projects.
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Professor Henrietta L. Moore is the Founder and Director of the Institute for Global Prosperity and the Chair in Culture Philosophy and Design at University College London (UCL). A leading global thinker on prosperity, Professor Moore challenges traditional economic models of growth arguing that to flourish communities, businesses and governments need to engage with diversity and work within environmental limits. Her work crosses disciplines, from social science to the arts to business innovation and she applies these different perspectives to inform research and policy at all levels.
Her recent work has focused on topics such as Universal Basic Services, social justice, ecological transitions, Artificial Intelligence, displaced people and digital services as a respected leading intellectual. She retains ongoing interests on issues of globalisation, mass migration, gender, social transformation and livelihood strategies, new technologies and agroecology which have shaped her career and her engagement with policy making. She is committed to involving grassroots communities in the production of new types of knowledge through citizen science.
In 2016 Professor Moore was made Dame Commander for the British Empire for contribution to social sciences, business, policy and the arts. She is the lead academic on the ESRC-funded RELIEF Centre aiming to improve levels of prosperity in Lebanon, the country with the world’s largest number of refugees per capita. She is Chair of the London Prosperity Board and of FastForward 2030, a network and collaborative platform for businesses aiming to incorporate the Sustainable Development Goals into their business models. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an Academician of the Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Clean Growth Leadership Network and a Member of the Institute of Directors.
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I teach and research global history and global thought. My focus is on global governance, neoliberalism and liberal democracy.
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Professor of Economics, DSI/NRF/Newton Fund Trilateral Chair in Transformative Innovation, the 4IR and Sustainable Development
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Anupama Dathan is a Policy Manager at J-PAL Global, where she manages the Health sector. In her role on the Policy team, she writes policy publications, cultivates new research partnerships, and conducts policy outreach for evidence dissemination.
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I am a Lecturer at UCL's Institute for Sustainable Resources. I teach in the MSc in Sustainable Resources: Economics, Policy and Transitions.
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Research Fellow in Circular Economy and Construction
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I am a behavioural economist, working on issues of identity, discrimination, trust, social cohesion and collective action.