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John H McKendrick is Professor of Social Justice and co-Director of the Scottish Poverty and Inequality Research Unit in the Glasgow School for Business and Society at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is primarily concerned to inform the work of practitioners and campaigners beyond the academy who seek to tackle poverty in Scotland. he has active research interests in relation to children and play, education, tackling poverty, transport and school food.
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Mark Visser is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands). His research interests include older workers, the life course perspective, quantitative methodology, political sociology, social capital, social inequality and social stratification.
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Yann Briand is a senior climate policy researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), affiliated to Sciences Po and is working on decarbonization trajectories in the transport sector as part of the Deep Decarbonization Pathways – DDP initiative. He holds a double master degree in mechanical and power engineering from Arts et Métiers ParisTech in France and the Technical University of Dresden and a master degree in public affairs with majors in energy, resources and sustainable development from Sciences Po Paris in France.
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I am a PhD student at University of York exploring food system change and food values. My greatest passion is connecting people to each other and to our planet. With an academic background in food policy and professional experience campaigns and communications, I accomplish this by exploring the intricacies of our food system and sharing them through my work. My interests include transformation and resilience, right to food, environmental education and outreach, regenerative agriculture, brand and website design for ethical businesses and systems thinking.
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Interesting in human rights cities, transitional justice, and arts and activism. Also in co-production and knowledge exchange.
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Pinaki Laskar : A Visionary who’s Transforming Tech into an Art & Business and an AI Researcher, Inventor,
Futurist Speaker, XAI Author & Thought Leader, Spatial Computing Savant and
NextGen Mentor. He is a disruptive Innovator & Cognitive Technologist, and has
been founding brain for many disruptive AI solutions ranging from Autonomous Car
and Intelligent Transport System, AI-based Music and Health Care. He is an expert and distinguished Inventor in Artificial Intelligence and IIOT with research in AI and
Ethics. As a thought leader, he has been speaker at various conferences across world
with a work experience of two decades.
NodeXL has listed Pinaki as one of the top 10 Influencers of Selfdriving Cars and Data Scientist in the world and Thinkers360 has recognized him in the Top 20 Global Thought Leaders & Influencers on Autonomous Vehicles.
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Academic economist specialising in international growth, business, development and governance/policy-making.
Published widely in the areas of: international trade and trade policy; foreign direct investment (FDI) and multinational enterprises; the growth effects of FDI in developing countries; small economies - determinants of growth, governance, policies for trade and growth; determinants of FDI and growth impacts of FDI, sustainability.
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I am a researcher and consultant on human rights in the digital environment, based in the UK at the University of Oxford and Chatham House. I have focused particularly on the application of human rights law in tackling disinformation and other manipulation of political and election debate: https://www.chathamhouse.org/2019/11/online-disinformation-and-political-discourse-applying-human-rights-framework I am now considering the role of human rights in tackling various aspects of online harms, and am available for discussion and consultancy in this field. Website: www.katejones.uk
By way of background, I am a lawyer and former diplomat turned academic. During my 13 years with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, I advised on many areas of public international law and specialised in international human rights law, including as Legal Adviser to the UK Mission to the United Nations in Geneva and UK Deputy Permanent Representative (Deputy Ambassador) to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Since 2015, I have been based at the University of Oxford, where until 2020 I directed and taught on the Diplomatic Studies Programme, a set of postgraduate courses for diplomats.
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Rehema Msulwa is a Research Associate with the Bennett Institute of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. Her interests lie at the nexus of where policy meets the design and delivery of capital-intensive infrastructure projects. Rehema’s research is concerned with two primary questions. Firstly, how are decisions to proceed with infrastructure projects made? Secondly, given that such projects require input from a range of stakeholders, including local government authorities, businesses and impacted communities, how is the process of developing infrastructure projects managed? These questions are essential because infrastructure investment (or its lack) affects where businesses locate, and people live for the long term so it can embed economic success (or failure) in specific places.
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I am a PhD candidate in psychology, working at the Social Science Center in Berlin (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, WZB).