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Dr. Shilan Fuad Hussain is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (UK). She is researcher & analyst in Socio-Cultural Studies, expert in Cultural Analysis and Gender Studies. She is an interdisciplinary academic and works on a variety of topics such as Gender, Political Violence and Diaspora. Her current work sits at the intersection of sociology and cultural analysis, and its symbiotic relevance to modern society.
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I am a health economist, in the process of receiving my PhD from Boston University. My fields are health economics and industrial organization. My research centers around questions of how to improve access to and utilization of high-value health services, such as preventive care, for at-risk individuals and families.
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I’m a visiting clinical assistant professor at BU Law and I teach in the technology law clinic. I write about race and gender representation on patents and ways to reach patent inventorship equity at universities.
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A young professional working in the leading Africa investment management company with interests in Power, Oil and Gas, Financial Services, Real Estate &Hospitality, and Healthcare. I also work with the Tony Elumelu Foundation, Africa's leading philanthropy in empowering young African entrepreneurs from 54 countries on the continent through seed capital provision, business training and mentoring.
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Research Fellow with the RISE Programme (Research on Improving Systems of Education), affiliated with the Blavatnik School of Government. Particular research interests in the global learning crisis, foundational skills, and the role of families in education systems.
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Researcher, trainer, facilitator
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Dr Kate Orkin is a faculty member at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. She is an applied microeconomist, working in behavioural, labour and development economics. She mainly runs large field experiments in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and South Africa, developing and testing real-world interventions in partnership with governments and NGOs. Much of Kate's research focuses on how to design social protection and active labour markets interventions to improve employment and earnings for the poorest people in developing countries. One current project, in collaboration with the NGO GiveDirectly, studies how to design large-scale cash transfer schemes to increase the productivity of beneficiaries' work. Another examines if improving the information available to the labour market improves matches between firms and workers and how this affects firms' and workers' outcomes.
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Professor of Political Science, University of Padua, Sciences Po, Paris, OSE, Brussels and University of Surrey
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I am a political economist and behavioral scientist at Stony Brook University, where I am an associate professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Behavioral Political Economy. I use behavioral game theory, experimental social science, and other methods to study fairness and social preferences, climate change mitigation, environmental policy, behavioral ethics, public opinion, and voting.
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I am Davina Osei, an economist and public policy specialist. I am interested in inclusive economic and social policy. I have teaching, research and policy work experience in the fields of development, poverty and inequality, institutions and social economics.