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Elena is an Associate Professor at IESE Business School and a behavioral scientist. Elena studies how people make decisions in their daily lives and ways to improve those decisions. Elena’s research interests lie at the intersection of behavioral decision-making, public policy, marketing and economics. Her main areas of expertise are choice architecture, information and choice overload, ethical decision-making, individual and group decision-making, as well as neuro-marketing. Elena employs various methods in her research including decision process-tracing methods, from mouse tracing and eye-tracking to emotion recognition and brain imaging. Elena serves as a behavioral expert and advisor for a number of organizations both in the private and public sectors
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Professor of Sociology, Public University of Navarra
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Nick Ruderman is a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Attitudes, Values, and Societies (CÉVAS) at Concordia University in Montréal, Québec, and the Legislative Research branch of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto in 2017, and completed a SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at McGill University's Department of Political Science and Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship in 2019. He has research interests in Canadian and comparative politics and policy, public opinion, and political participation.
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A chartered building services engineer, currently acting as senior lecturer of Building Engineering within the College of Engineering and Built Environment in TU Dublin.
Ciara has over 15 years’ experience as an academic combined with over 12 years’ industrial experience practicing as a consultant design engineer on residential and commercial building projects.
Ciara is the Minister of Education and Skills nominee to the board of the Construction Industry Register Ireland (CIRI), established to develop and promote best practice in buildings and construction.
Ciara is a funded investigator with SFI/MaREI, actively researching energy resilience within the built environment and sits on the board of EnergyCloud, a social enterprise looking to innovative solutions to divert excess renewable energy, otherwise wasted, to fuel poor homes
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Dr Peter Matthews is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Stirling. He researches on inclusive urban management, with a particular focus on poverty and concentrated deprivation and also LGBTQ+ rights and inclusion.
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Kate Joseph joined the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in 2018 in the Group Strategy Policy Coordination and Relations unit. Her work contributes to the overarching long-term city development strategy and improving operations within the city, particularly around service delivery infrastructure, urban sustainability and governance. She has represented the City of Joburg in a number of global networks
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Computational linguist focusing on analyzing media (traditional and social media) in collaboration with HOPE (How Democracies Cope with Covid-19) at Aarhus University.
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My interests and expertise lie at the intersection of policy and innovation. I currently work at the Management of Social Transformations and Foresight (MOST) Programme of UNESCO. In this role, I am conducting research and assisting in the coordination of a project with the European Commission on government innovation and capacity building. I also lead the research at the Inclusive Policy Lab, focusing on sustainable welfare, data for good and trust in science.
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Academic lawyer at the University of Portsmouth's Law School.
Research areas: illegal wildlife trade, wildlife law and wildlife crime, sustainable spaces.
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Assistant Professor in International Relations at Durham University (UK). Political theorist and student of global governance, interested in the ways in which public participation has changed over time, the effects on normative definitions of democracy, and how to rethink democracy to meet the challenges of a global world.