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Second year PhD student at the University of Waterloo, BSIA, in Global Governance specializing in conflict and security, particularly security mechanisms and governance of UNESCO cultural heritage sites in cities with proximity to active conflict.
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A health geographer and epidemiologist by training and a researcher and a community servant at heart
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Mirko (PhD, Sydney; MPhil, Edinburgh; MSc and BA, Milan) is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science and Head of the Human Machine Interaction Lab at Innopolis University. He is a Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (2022-), a Honorary Member of the Lab for Industrializing Software Production (LIPS) in the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering at Innopolis University (2021-), an Expert Member of the UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab (2021-), and Contributing Member of the Astana Club (2022-).
He was a Member of Task Force 1 on Global Health and Covid 19, at G20, 2021, a Senior Research Fellow (2021-2018) at Saint Petersburg State University, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Innopolis University (2022-2020) and at Nazarbayev University (2020-2019), a Honorary Research Fellow (2019-2021) and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2016) in the Department of Philosophy at King's College London , and a visiting scholar (2017) at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow. He was also visiting fellow at Aarhus University, and at Ruhr University Bochum.
Over his career, A/Prof Farina received approximately USD1 Million in research funding. A/Prof Farina has over 60 peer-reviewed publications with many articles in top-tier (Q1) journals (in both philosophy and computer science) and several chapters in prestigious edited collections (e.g. Oxford University Press, MIT Press, Routledge, Springer Nature). During his career A/Prof Farina delivered more than 75 talks at international conferences. A/Prof Farina is currently co-editing two books on expertise (one with Duncan Pritchard and Andrea Lavazza)- invited by- Oxford University Press; the second for Routledge. He is also co-editing two Special Issues on distributed cognition for Cognition, Technology & Work and Frontiers in Psychology
Personal Webpage: https://mirkofarina.weebly.com/
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Lubna Yusuf is an author, lawyer and a noted documentary filmmaker based in Mumbai, India. She is the Founder of La Legal and CEO, Co-Founder of FishEyeBox Innovation Lab.
She is the Co-Author of The AI Book on Fintech published by Wiley Publications. Purpose of Flowers, a bestseller Haiku book, is her first book of Poetry and Illustrations. She read creative writing at Oxford University. Her articles on AI, Law, privacy & ethics in Deep tech are published in corporate magazines and legal journals.
She is a visiting lecturer of IPR and media laws at NMIMS School of Design. She is also a Mentor of Change for Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog, Government of India.
She is the recipient of the Legal Writer’s Award 2019 by Legal Service India for her journal on Film and Media laws. She was the Finalist for the Women-in-Tech Awards at WTF Chicago, in Intelligence and Automation for her role as design strategist & legal tech expert for India's first Autonomous Car System. In July 2020 she has been nominated for ‘Women in AI Leadership Awards’, at Venture Beat Transform 2020 in the Women In AI Entrepreneur segment.
She had worked as an assistant director in the feature film Dedh Ishqiya. Her debut documentary film Maida (White Flour) is shot across a span of eight years and is based on social issues of dowry, child marriage and girl child education in rural India. It premiered at the Prestigious International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) in June 2019. The UK premier was at We The Peoples Film Festival, the Human Rights Documentary festival of United Nations Association( UNA-UK). It has travelled to 20 international film festivals so far.
She lives in Mumbai, India.
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Third year law student interested in the nexus between academic and applied law particularly in refugee and statelessness law. Three years experience in human rights organisations including but not limited to Lawyers for Human Rights and Cambridge University United Nations Association.
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Animal lover and a positive thinker :D
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Consultant for UNESCO's Inclusive Policy Lab. Assisting in UNESCO's role for a climate migration project, HABITABLE, as lead for inclusive stakeholder engagement. Daniel's primary background is on equitable and inclusive policy for smallholder farmers in East Africa and Southeast Asia, especially in the face of climate change. Prior to UNESCO, Daniel worked with the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agriculture Service (USDA FAS) in Tanzania. Here he analyzed the implications of power within climate development projects among smallholder farmers, partnering with World Forestry (ICRAF) and the Food and Agriculture Organization. Daniel also worked in Vietnam and Indonesia with The International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), analyzing the implementation of climate-smart agriculture. He is also involved in advising his former startup focused on food sovereignty in Kenya. Daniel holds an MSc in Environmental Change and Management and Master of Business Administration from the University of Oxford, following his undergraduate degree in agricultural economics and climate change from Cornell University.
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My name is Jasper Mangwana the chairperson and founder of Zimbabwe Youth in SDGs(ZYSDG) an organization that works in promoting active youth participation in the implementation of the global goals. ZYSDG is the conveyor of the Zimbabwe National Youth SDGs Summit and has over 165 community chapters and Interest Groups in Zimbabwe.
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Ana Paula Barreto (she/hers) is the Director of Transnational Birth Equity at the National Birth Equity Collaborative. She has a master's of Arts in International affairs and is a fellow of the United Nations Fellowship Program for People of African descent. Ana is a researcher on global health, race and inequalities with a special focus on women and girls.
Ana has more than fifteen years of experience as a human rights professional, working in several counties of the Americas and Africa, doing innovative work on global health and reproductive justice. In 2018, she developed a project analyzing the intersection between economic empowerment and health outcomes of women and children in Ethiopia as well as the first “Black Brazilian Film Festival” in the African continent.
She is also the co-founder of Projeto 111, a project that teaches young people in the favelas of Brazil how to use media tools to tell their own stories and disrupt police brutality through storytelling.
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Dr. Alban Kuriqi is a leading expert in Civil Engineering, specializing in Renewable Energy and Water Management. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Lisbon, pioneering methodologies to enhance small hydropower energy production while minimizing ecological impacts. With a robust academic foundation, including an integrated Civil/Hydrotechnical Engineering diploma from the Polytechnic University of Tirana and an M.Sc. in Water Resources and Hydraulics from Epoka University and Grenoble Institute of Technology, Dr. Kuriqi brings over 14 years of diverse experience in civil engineering.