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RASHILA RAMLI (Prof. Dato’ Dr.) is Principal Fellow, Professor of Political Science, former Director at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS,) Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), and Principal Visiting Fellow at the UNU-International Institute of Global Health. She has a Bachelors degree in Chemistry from Illinois, and Master degree in Business management and PhD in Political Science from Arizona. Her areas of specialization are Political Development, Gender and Politics, and Human Security. Her research areas are on the Global ASEAN, and Promoting Social Inclusion through SDGs and Public Policies. Her current research is on Localizing SDGs in 10 parliamentary constituencies under the All Parliamentary Parties Group Malaysia (APPGM). She is also a member of the Malaysian APEC 2020 Substantive Team. Her professional engagement includes, among others, as President of the Malaysian Social Science Association (PSSM), member of the Council of Security Cooperation in Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Malaysia, Asst. Secretary-General, the National Council for Women’s Organizations (NCWO), Malaysia, and Co-Chair of the Malaysian SDG Academic Network.
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I am a political economist at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Jesus College. My research has focused on the political economy of international finance and the politics of globalization. I am currently working on the relationship between anthropogenic environmental change and the development of global capitalism.
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Research Assistant at Sakarya University Social Work Department
PhD Candidate at Ankara University, examining the social work practices at university within the advanced context of school social work. Also, Board Member of YoungAcademia platform which provides guidance service to young academics in Turkey.
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I am currently working as M&E Lead at DMEO, NITI Aayog Government of India. I have 8+ years of cross-sector and cross-functional work experience across government, not-for-profits and IT consulting firms, in the areas of M&E, program management, stakeholder engagement, and policy engagement.
Previously, as part of International Growth Centre (IGC), I was involved in research management, engagement with stakeholders, including state and national level government stakeholders, multilateral and bilateral partners of IGC, and other local stakeholders. I have also worked on a project that involved managing program implementation of a large scale RCT research study for an ed-tech program in Government Senior Secondary schools of Haryana. I graduated in MA in Globalisation, Business and Development from Institute of Development Studies,Sussex, UK. I have cross-sector and cross-functional work experience across research think tank, not-for-profits and IT firm. I have keen interest in working on research, policy and collective impact.
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Kumar Das is the IGC Programme Policy Manager for IGC Bihar.
He holds a B.A. (H) in Sociology from the Presidency College, Calcutta, an MA in Development Studies from Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex and MSc in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to joining the IGC, Kumar worked as Senior Technical Consultant for UNICEF India Country Office, focusing on Evaluation, Research, and Policy.
His postgraduate research focused on health service delivery in India, involving a policy analysis of India’s Menstrual Hygiene Scheme to examine the role of policy networks, policy actors and politics of framing.
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Dr. Shreyasee ("sray-o-she") Das is an Instructional Assistant Professor at Temple University. She is also affiliated with the Temple Global Studies & the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies program. Dr. Das completed her Ph.D. in Economics, her M.A. in Economics, and her B.Sc. in Economics, all from the University of Houston. Her research interests are in the fields of gender and development economics, with a regional focus on India. Some of her work examines marriage market outcomes in the event of natural and industrial disasters and the impact of property rights on women’s empowerment.
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Professor Elisabetta Lazzaro's academic and professional expertise focuses on the economics, business and policy of the arts, culture and creative industries, such as: Smart valorisation, business and societal innovation, growth and sustainability in the CCI; Arts markets; Capacity building, spillovers and socio-economic impact of culture in city and regional sustainable development; Entrepreneurship, innovative business models and financing (including crowdfunding) of artists and creative professionals; Digitalization and technology transfer in the arts, cultural heritage and creativity; Comparative analysis of regulatory and funding schemes for the CCI; Cultural participation, diversity and wellbeing; Culture in international cooperation and external relations.