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Dr Johanna Koehler is Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Governance in the Department of Environmental Policy Analysis at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research interests include sustainable water services and net-zero energy transitions. She investigates how risks and responsibilities can be re-conceptualised and re-allocated in pluralist governance arrangements between the state, market, and communities. To date, she has focused on the interplay of water risks and institutional change as well as new professional water service delivery models emerging across sub-Saharan Africa. Theoretically, her work advances institutional theory of risk; methodologically, she uses qualitative and quantitative methods, including experiments, to understand social and institutional behaviours with regard to environmental governance, working with governments, the private sector, and end users. Johanna is also Honorary Research Associate at the School of Geography and the Environment and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford.
She is co-founder of a business model for maintaining drinking water infrastructure in marginalised areas of Kenya, FundiFix Ltd., which serves over 80,000 people with reliable water services. Her research on sharing water-related risks between the public and private sectors and communities was taken up in Kenya’s Water Act 2016. The model has since been scaled up by UNICEF in Bangladesh and is part of the wider Uptime consortium of service providers maintaining rural water infrastructure across Africa.
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Student researcher and scholar.
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I am a physician epidemiologist and an Assistant professor in the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo. My research interests focus on syndemics of infectious diseases like HIV, hepatitis B and C, tuberculosis and sexually transmitted infections. My research aims to evaluate the determinants of syndemics, extend the syndemic framework to non-communicable diseases and cancers, and design and evaluate prevention strategies to address syndemics. My other areas of interest include the development and application of methods for analysis of big data, global health, and spatial epidemiologic methods and their application to public health practice. In addition to the above, I have worked internationally in academia and the development sector (World Health Organization and UNICEF).
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Aaron Francis is a doctoral student in Global Governance at the University of Waterloo, a multidisciplinary artist and a curator. In the past year, Aaron has exhibited works from his Vintage Black Canada initiative at the BAND Gallery Toronto, the Gladstone Hotel Toronto, and the Contact Photography Festival as well at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). The former chair of the City of Kitchener’s Arts and culture advisory committee, most recently in June 2020 Aaron co-organized and marshaled the Black Lives Matter Solidarity March that saw an estimated 30,000 attendees in his hometown of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
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Katie Hirono is a PhD candidate in the Global Public Health Unit at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the role of participatory processes, such as citizens’ juries and health impact assessment, for improving policymaking and health equity. Katie also has a long-standing record of helping to support underserved communities. She served on the board of directors for a health clinic in Maryland that serviced undocumented Latino populations, and volunteered as a Spanish medical translator at a free health clinic in Virginia. She has worked as a consultant to the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization in the department of Gender, Diversity and Human Rights.
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PhD student researcher at Simon Fraser University's Department of Political Science. My areas of expertise include comparative political behaviour, intergroup relations, and Canadian politics. Substantively, I am interested in the effects of migration and diversity on political outcomes.
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I am a PhD canditate at Global Governance Deparment. I am holding a Master of LLM with 7 years of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) experience in working with refugees, specifically in providing legal and psychosocial support to sexual and gender based violence survivors, unaccompanied and separated children, and children exposed to child marriage and child labour. I have a project and training expertise on International Refugee Law, International Human Rights Law and Refugee Protection.
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Aviva Silburt is a PhD Candidate at the University of Waterloo's Balsillie School of International Affairs researching the complex linkages between mining conflicts and broader peacebuilding challenges in Guatemala. Aviva has professional experience in public policy and peacebuilding, and has worked in various capacities with the Government of Canada, UN Women Canada, and grassroots NGOs in Rwanda, Bosnia, and the Philippines. She is currently a policy advisor for the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise to investigate human rights abuses involving Canadian companies operating abroad.
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Ph.D. student with the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Canada. Member of the Hard-of-Hearing community. Research focuses on Disarmament Agreements.
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Former Government of Canada policy analyst working in next generation energy technologies, regulatory approval of energy infrastructure, and Indigenous consultation. PhD research into governance of climate altering technologies such as stratospheric aerosol injection, cirrus cloud thinning, and marine cloud brightening - cumulatively solar geoengineering. Also have interests in governance of transformational technology and infrastructure, and other climate altering technologies including carbon dioxide removal and direct air capture technologies.