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Binyam Sisay Mendisu is an Ethiopian Linguist turned teacher policy and science for policy specialist. He has a PhD in Linguistics from University of Oslo, was Next Einstein Forum (NEF) Ambassador (2017-2019), the 2019 Research Associate of the International Network of Government Science Advice (INGSA), and serves on the steering committee of the Africa Science Leadership Program (ASLP) based at the Future Africa Campus of the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Since 2016, he is working as a program officer for teacher education and curriculum development at UNESCO International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA).
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I am a Lecturer in Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London. I have a PhD in Political Science (UCL, 2017) and an MSc in Political Economy for the University of Essex (2011) and a BA in International Relations (ITESO, Mexico 2006). Before joining Royal Holloway, I was a postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Strathclyde.
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Giacomo Benedetto holds a Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London. Before moving to his current post, he held a lectureship in European Politics at the University of Manchester. He was awarded a PhD in Political Science by the London School of Economics, the subject of which was “Institutionalised Consensus in the European Parliament”. He teaches university courses on the history, theory, political development, budgets, and public policy of the European Union.
He is a co-author of the Study on the Potential and Limitations of Reforming the Financing of the EU Budget prepared for the EU's High Level Group on Own Resources, and he has authored briefings and provided evidence on the EU’s budget for the Budgets and Budgetary Control Committees of the European Parliament. He has published on matters concerning the EU budget in scientific journals, and he has co-edited with Simona Milio a collection of essays on the reform of the EU budget published by Palgrave-Macmillan in 2012.
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Ana is the head of the Behavioral and Experimentation Unit (UCEx) at the National Public Policy Lab. She is professor of Rational choice and Economics at CIDE. She specializes in the study of rationality and behavioral sciences for public policy design. She is experienced in the analysis of financial inclusion with several publication on the topic.
Ana worked as a consultant at IMCO (a leading Mexican think tank) and in the private sector. Her study on skin-color discrimination in bank branches was awarded the National Public Policy Price in 2018. Ana holds a B.A. in Economics from the Tecnológico de Monterrey, a Master in S.C. on Development Studies from the London School of Economics and a PhD. in Public Policy at CIDE.
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Eleftherios Giovanis studied economics at the University of Thessaly. He completed the M.Sc. in Applied Economics and Finance at the University of Macedonia and the M.Sc. in Quality Assurance at the Hellenic Open University in 2009. He completed his PhD in economics at the Royal Holloway University of London. He was awarded the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Individual Fellowship at the University of Verona in 2015 and worked as an assistant professor in economics at Adnan Menderes University in 2017. In 2018-2021 he worked as a Senior Lecturer of Economics at Manchester Metropolitan University, and in 2019-2021 he was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Adnan Menderes University. He is currently an Associate Professor of Economics at Izmir Bakircay University.
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Dr Walters Nsoh is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Birmingham, with expertise in land and natural resource law and policy. He has undertaken studies with forest stakeholders in Cameroon; developed standards on land rights, the environment and extractive industries across Africa; and contributed to drafting of a new legal framework for Ecuador on natural resources and food security, among others. His book The Privatisation of Biodiversity? - New Approaches to Conservation Law (Edward Elgar Publishing 2016) explores the use of innovative market-based approaches such as biodiversity offsetting, payment for ecosystem services and conservation covenants in nature conservation. He has published in leading peer-reviewed academic and practitioner sources and has provided written evidence to policy consultations. In 2018, he guest edited a Special Issue of the Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy on Competing Claims for Land, Food, Water and Agricultural Resources: Perspectives from the Global South. His work continues to evolve into new lines of enquiry and interdisciplinary collaborations and he has recently initiated research on the governance of water-energy-food nexus.