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Julia chairs the research deaprtment „Transformations of Political Order: Governance, Values and Peace“ at the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn, where she co-cordinates DIE's Africa research and policy advice. Her work focuses on political transformation, the conditions and consequences of social cohesion and international cooperation for an integrated implementation of the SDGs. Based on this research, she adds value to future scenarios for a transformation to sustainability. Her work is published in scientific journals, books and media outlets. Julia translates her academic research into policy advice and has engaged in impact measurement on the effectiveness of international democracy support and state-building. She teaches at the universities of Heidelberg and Duisburg-Essen.
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Dr. Kaushik Bharati, PhD, MIPHA, FRSPH (London), obtained his PhD in Physiology with specialization in Vaccinology from the University of Calcutta, India in 2001. He carried out his doctoral work at the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, India. He did his Post-doctoral Fellowship from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, specializing in Immunology and Molecular Biology. He was formerly a Scientist at the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India, and a Senior Program Officer at the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad, NCR Delhi, India. He was also a Visiting Professor in the Departments of Physiology and Microbiology at Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, India. His major research areas include Virology, Public Health, and Health Policy. He has published over 90 papers in reputed national and international journals and has also co-authored a book entitled “Basic Concepts in Immunology”. He is currently on the Editorial Board of 16 journals from India, UK, USA, and UAE. He is on the Peer-review Panel of 13 bio-medical journals from India, UK, USA, China, Indonesia and Nigeria. He is also an External Examiner for PhD of the University of Calcutta, India and Lincoln University College, Malaysia. He is a Member of the Indian Public Health Association and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (London). He has received 15 awards for his research work from India, New Zealand, UK, and USA.
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I'm a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Exeter. My primary focus is development economics, with an interest in field experiments related to agriculture. I also work on the economics of culture and long-run development using text analysis and machine learning.
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Hui-Yuan Neo is a PhD student in Cornell University. She studies political science with a regional focus on Southeast Asia. She works on authoritarian institutions and strategies of control in hybrid and autocratic regimes. Secondarily, she is also interested in contentious politics and their effects on regime transitions. She has also conducted and has plans to conduct fieldwork in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
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PhD candidate and part-time professor in political studies majoring in International Relations at the University of Ottawa. My research generally focuses on African politics and global environmental governance as well as climate change politics more broadly. My major research focus has been analyzing the global politics involved in Community-Based Natural Resource Management in southern Africa.
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Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology, University of Exeter, UK.
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I’m Franco-Senegalese. I am currently in my second year of doctoral studies in political science at the University of Ottawa. My research focuses on the comparison of peasant mobilizations against land grabbing in Senegal and Colombia, more specifically against the implementation of special economic zones in these two states. I had the opportunity to be invited by the Centre for Afrodescendant Studies at La Javeriana University in Bogota as part of Master degree. This allowed me to conduct a field research in a humanitarian zone of civil resistance in Colombia.
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Darin Self will receive his PhD in Political Science from Cornell University in the Spring of 2021. Darin works on comparative political development with a focus on democratization and authoritarianism. He has conducted field work in Latin America and Southeast Asia and has had training in both quantitative and qualitative methods. Prior to starting his PhD, Darin completed a Masters of Public Policy.
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PhD Candidate in Government (Political Science) at Cornell University studying political transitions, with a focus on post-communist and post-conflict peacebuilding and statebuilding in the Balkans.
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Professor of Public Policy, University of Exeter, UK. I work on impact assessment and policy evaluation.