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MSc sustainable development student at the university of St. Andrews
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Postdoctoral researcher in glaciology. Member of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration. Board Chair of Greenpeace Canada.
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Toyin Ajibade, a lecturer and researcher at the University of Ilorin Nigeria, holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics. Toyin had about eight years of cognate banking experience before venturing into academia. An International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) research fellow, her doctoral research was on Price Discovery and Volatility of Selected Food Crop Markets in Nigeria. Toyin’s career goal is to be at the forefront of agricultural trade, markets, and industrial organization agenda towards regional trade integration and agricultural value chain development in Africa.
Toyin is an advocate for agricultural value chain development and has been actively involved with curriculum development, training of value chain actors, and financial institutions such as to build formidable value chains across various crops in Nigeria. Toyin has conducted agribusiness and agricultural finance training of financial institutions for various organizations including commercial banks, AFOS Foundation for Entrepreneurial Development Cooperation (African Trust Funds Entrepreneurial Development, and impact investors, among others.
Toyin has been engaging with stakeholders across various levels of involvement including research institutions, funding organizations, insurance institutions, donor agencies, the private sector, and the Government. Toyin is currently involved with the NICOP component of the West Africa Competitiveness Project in developing and adapting financial literacy manuals and training toolkits for Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) German Development Cooperation which is co-financed by the European Union for Farmers in selected food value chains and MSMEs in the leather and garment sectors in Nigeria.
Toyin is a co-Principal Investigator on Feed-The-Future Legume Systems Innovation Lab-funded projects targeted at Promoting Trade Integration in Africa Regional Legume Markets through mobile technology app which is being developed for the legume traders and farmers in West Africa region. Toyin has been a consultant for International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Nigeria and Mali where she has carried out various researches in the millet and sorghum value chains.
Toyin is a climate-change enthusiast who looks forward to doing more multidisciplinary researches that will be addressing climate change challenges, bearing in mind the threats this poses to food production and food security in an interconnected world.
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Philip Shapira is Professor of Innovation Management and Policy, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, and a Professor of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology. His interests encompass science and technology, innovation management, manufacturing strategies, emerging technologies, and responsible innovation. He is a Co-Investigator and Lead for Responsible Research and Innovation with the Manchester Synthetic Biology Research Centre. Recent outputs have examined institutions for technology diffusion and the next production revolution, societal alignment and emerging technologies, and redistributed manufacturing. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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I am the co-Founder and inaugural Director of the Impact Evaluation (IE) Lab at Tanzania's Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF). The IE Lab's Mission is to expand the impact evaluation space in Tanzania through capacity-building of local researchers in IE methods; facilitating interactions between IE researchers, both local and international, and policy-makers; producing cutting-edge rigorous impact evaluated-knowledge of interventions and policies; to ultimately inform better policies that improve the lives of Tanzanians.
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Livini is an assistant lecturer in Economics at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Currently he is a PhD (Economics) candidate at the University of Nottingham, UK.
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Senior Lecturer teaching Politics, International Relations and Human Rights. Migration scholar.
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I have gathered a multifaceted set of experiences, ranging from sales and administration to working with the United Nations Headquarters, where I led communications projects related to sustainability education and the #GlobalGoals. My passion and expertise lie within the sphere of communications, innovation, social impact, and the intercept of traditional business strategy and sustainability.
With over 5 years of professional experience, I have spent extensive time working with various NGOs, international organizations and startups, such as;
- United Nations Sustainable Development Network - Youth (UN SDSN Youth)
- Women’s Global Leadership Initiative (WGLI)
- United Nations
- Young European Leadership (YEL)
- Youth 7 (Official Youth Engagement Group of the G7)
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PhD candidate studying social media and refugee-host community relations - Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
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Assistant Professor Dr Ruttiya is a lecturer, and a Vice Dean at the College of Population Studies, Chulalongkorn University. She has been actively working in the area of labour market analysis, skills, gender, migration, and labour policy linkages.
For many years, she joined the ILO and worked on various issues, including labour market analysis, skills, gender, migration, as well as disaster and the labour market. She is an international consultant who conducted researches in many Asian countries for UNIDO, OECD and ILO. She is also a Project Manager of a Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development Project (SATREPS) on Regional Resilience Enhancement through Establishment of Area-BCM at Industry Complexes in Thailand.
She continuously contributes to academic areas and promotes linkages of labour researches into policies and practices using an interdisciplinary approach. Currently, she is a director/ key coordinator of Collaborating Centre for Labour Research at Chulalongkorn University, Secretariat to National Labour Research Centre at the Ministry of Labour, and a committee member on labour reform, Thai Senate of Thailand. She also conducted a Government Laboratory for government staffs on a design thinking basis and human-centre design.
She has committed to advance linkages between labour researches and inclusive policies for all groups of people toward inclusive growth.