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Aila M. Matanock is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research addresses how international and other outside actors engage in fragile states. Her most recent work in on comparative policing. She has conducted fieldwork in Colombia, Central America, Melanesia, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere. Her 2017 book, Electing Peace: From Civil Conflict to Political Participation, was published by Cambridge University Press and won the 2018 Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize. Her work has also been published by Foreign Affairs, Governance, International Security, Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, and elsewhere. She previously worked at the RAND Corporation and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. She has held fellowships at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and UCSD’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University and her A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard University.
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Sociologist by training, teaching at the Univ of British Columbia's School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. Focused on Japan and Mongolia in terms of geography, and education, mining, democratization in terms of substantive policy areas. Lots of past consulting work related to many different aspects of economic, political and social developments in contemporary Mongolia. See "Mongolia Focus" blog for samples of analyses.
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Ioana Marinescu is an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She studies the labor market to craft policies that can enhance employment, productivity, and economic security. To make an informed policy decision, it is crucial to determine the costs and benefits of policies. Her research expertise includes wage determination and monopsony power, antitrust law for the labor market, the universal basic income, unemployment insurance, the minimum wage, and employment contracts. Her research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Labor Economics, the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, and the Journal of Public Economics. She testified for policy makers, including Congress and the Federal Trade Commission. Her research has been cited in many media outlets including the New York Times, CNN, and the Wall Street Journal.
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UNESCO Chair in inclusive, good quality education for all
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Dr. Andreas Freytag is Professor of Economics at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (http://www.wipo.uni-jena.de/JASG.html) and Honorary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch. He is also Director of Tutwa Europe (www.tutwaconsulting.com), member of the CESifo Research network, a STIAS Fellow, a Senior Fellow at Kings College’s DAFM, Senior Research Fellow at ECIPE, Brussels, and a Senior Research Associate at SAIIA, Johannesburg; he is associated to the G8 Research Group at the University of Toronto.
Freytag has obtained his diploma from the University of Kiel, his doctorate as well his Habilitation from the University of Cologne. He has published a number of books and articles in first-class peer-reviewed journals on economic policy, international trade policy, development economics and international policy coordination. He contributes to blogs and has a weekly column on wiwo-online, a German magazine (http://www.wiwo.de/themen/Freytags-Frage).
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I am an Assistant Professor of Comparative Public Policy at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. My research focuses on the politics of policy innovation and policy change in federal political systems, with a focus on the United States and Canada. My research to date has included policy change with respect to Indigenous self-determination and self-governance, social policies including education policy and early childhood policies, and the dynamics of policy learning.
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I am a PhD candidate at SOAS University of London and a consultant in the Department of Development Studies.
My research interests are on local-level experiences in War-to-Peace transitions with special focus on South Sudan, displacement, cross border trade, violence and security. I am also a research assistant for a project on Diplomacy of forced Migration Database.
I have a working background in livelihoods and protection work in Sub-Saharan countries.
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Professor of Education at University of Bristol. Interested in climate change and development, race and racism in education, and theories of globalization.
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Alex Marsh is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. He is currently the Governance Theme lead for the ESRC/AHRC/JRF UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence. His current research is in two main areas: (i) rental housing policy and (ii) the city and technology. During 2019-2021 Alex and his team are working with colleagues in Mexico City on a project examining citizen-oriented smart city innovation.
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I am an empirical scholar specialising in all aspects of Digital Law and Regulation. I research the intersections between law, society and disruptive as well as innovative digital technologies like machine learning, social media, cloud computing and Internet of Things. I have substantial experience in the legal and regulatory issues raised by such ecosystems including data protection, privacy, freedom of expression, defamation and cyber-crime.