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Composer-theorist Leila Adu-Gilmore’s compositions have been played at The Kennedy Center and Ojai Festival; singing and performing globally with over twenty releases including five solo albums. A Ghanaian New-Zealander born in London, Dr Adu-Gilmore is passionate about black and indigenous music, decolonization and social change. She has been published in Critical Studies in Improvisation journal and the Music Technology Cookbook (Oxford University Press), and has presented at Zhejiang Conservatory, Huddersfield University, and EHESS & IRCAM. Dr Adu-Gilmore received her BMus from Victoria University, NZ; Phd from Princeton University, and is an Assistant Professor in New York University’s music technology program. Composer Site: http://www.leilaadu.com/ & NYU site https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/leila-adu-gilmore
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I am a health sociologist with a particular interest in including the excluded.
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Service - New York University, Wagner Graduate School, Center for Global Affairs: Primary coursework - Economics of International Development and Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning for Global Affairs.
Independent evaluation consultant - Poverty, health & human development. How do we design better interventions to address poverty & health; how do we learn how to deliver them better.
Research focus: Identifying critical interventions at the home-based level to prevent child deaths from diarrhoea, malaria & pneumonia, including delivering interventions through community health workers (CHWs).
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I work as a lecturer in an Initial Teacher Education Programme.
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Lecturer in Construction Management, University of Strathclyde. Dr Zhen Chen, known as George, is the Lecturer in Construction Management, Academic Leader of Digital Construction Research Unit, and Course Director for MSc Advanced Construction Technologies and BIM in the Department of Architecture at Strathclyde. Through his academic and professional services at companies, organisations and universities worldwide, he has developed specialty interests and expertise in architectural engineering, construction engineering and management, and facilities management with regard to the dependable built environment. He has engaged in more than 80 funded research projects, and has more than 200 authored publications with over 100 plenary lectures and presentations at national and international events. He was the management committee member of COST Action on the effective design and delivery of megaprojects in the European Union, and serves on technical committees at ADS, ASCE, BIFM, BSI, CEN, CIBSE, ISO and RICS. He is the Specialty Chief Editor in Construction Management at Frontiers in Built Environment.
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Dolunay Bulut holds a PhD in Politics from the New School for Social Research. Her research grapples with the contemporary authoritarian phenomenon in constitutional settings and vis-a-vis the international rule of law. Before joining the University of Arizona School of Government, she worked in UN-CEDAW projects in Turkey, gender equity and urban development research projects in Turkey and USA, and presented her work on the new directions of constitutional-political knowledge production and transmission through education and religious institutions.
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Bongo Adi holds a full-time faculty position in the Economics, Data Analytics and Strategic Business Intelligence department of Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria. He is a Development Economist, Corporate Strategist, Data Scientist, PPP & Project Finance expert with over two decades of experience in Development Economics research, consulting and strategy policy advisory; capital raising, business development and data analytics.
His expertise has seen him lead and manage exciting and complex projects on subnational competitiveness indicator engineering and benchmarking. He has led several organizational re-engineering projects including skill-set diagnostic benchmarking, balance scorecard implementation, and manning analysis. His clients include both public sector organisations and a motley of blue chip companies and SMEs.
As a Project Finance and PPP expert, he pioneered PPP and Project Finance training at LBS, Nigeria. As a technical economists he is adept in Multi-sectoral Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modelling, macroeconomics modelling and forecasting, econometrics modelling and analysis. He applies his skills in economic development to help nurture startups and develop MSMEs. As a development finance specialist, he helps startups and SMEs to access venture capital, and various supports from donor agencies, CBN and the wider development finance ecosystem. He has sound expertise in managing large grants within development aid contexts.
Dr Adi holds a PhD in Regional Science and Development Economics and M.Sc in Economic Development and Policy Management under the Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship of the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He did a postdoctral training in Data Mining at the National Agricultural Research Center, Japan. He is a recipient of several awards including: UNU Fellowships (2000); World Bank Scholarship (2000); Japanese Scholarship for International Students (2004, 2005, 2006); Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellowship (2006); and several Best Paper Awards etc. His research has been presented in numerous international conferences, workshops and published in top ranked international journals. He is a regular Economist and Business analyst on Channels TV, CNBC Africa, TVC, Arise TV, Silverbrid TV, and AIT. He maintains a column bongonomics in Businessday newspaper. He is the Chairman of the Board of Prime Media Ltd, Nigeria’s leading online media and financial journalism company. He also sits on the board of several other blue chip companies and foundations. He also serves as a member of the editorial board of National Economy, Prime News and Daily Independent newspapers. His work in advancing education, social inclusion, poverty alleviation and other charitable initiatives have been recognized with several awards. He is a celebrated policy economic activist who uses the media to keep the managers of the economy on their feet. He is Nigeria’s leading policy economist with international media footprint.
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Peter Gall Krogh is trained as architect and product designer. He is Professor in Digital Design in Faculty of the ARTS at Aarhus University. Prior to this he was professor in design at Aarhus School of Architecture, visiting professor in Politecnico di Milano, Hong Kong PolyU and recently at Jiangnan University, China.
He contributes to service and interaction design both in doing and theorising based on co-design techniques with a particular interest in aesthetics, collective action and proxemics. In recent years this has played out in relation to designing for patient experiences in healthcare.
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Dr Joanna Vince is a Senior Lecturer in the Politics and International Relations Program, at the School of Social Sciences in the College of Arts, Law and Education at the University of Tasmania. Her research focusses international, domestic and comparative oceans governance; marine resource management; marine plastic pollution and governance solutions; non-state market driven governance in fisheries and aquaculture; and the effectiveness of governance arrangements in deterring illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing.
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Hayley James is a post-doc researcher at University College Dublin. Hayley’s research interests concern anthropological and sociological perspectives on money, finance and value, and how they intersect with ageing and the lifecourse. Her Thesis, completed at the University of Manchester, examined the impact of automatic enrolment into workplace pensions in the UK on individual decision making using a qualitative research methodology (entitled Connecting Policy with the Personal: UK pension reforms and individual financial decision making).