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Research Areas: Islamic Banking, Corporate Social Responsibility, Gender Diversity and Women Empowerment, Bank Performance Analysis
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Combining my international expertise in public affairs, government relations, and reputation management, I work with organisations operating across different markets to develop and advise multi-country and global communications strategies to manage, mitigate or leverage regulatory, political, and reputational risks and opportunities.
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Sayantan Ghosal is Professor of Economics at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and aFellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Mnufacture and Commerce. He was previously Dean of Interdisciplinarity and Impact at the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow, a Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick from 2004 to 2013 where he was also Research Director of the ESRC funded Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE). He also has a PhD from CORE, Universite Catholique de Louvain under the European Doctoral Program in Quantitative Economics.
Sayantan Ghosal co-ordinates the interdisciplinary research theme "Addressing Inequalities" at the University of Glasgow, leads the "LMIC Rseearch Network" and is an academic ambassador for the research beacon “Addressing Inequalities”. He is a PI on a number of research grants and a co-investigator on the ESRC funded “Rebuilding Macroeconomics Network”. Over his career he has been awarded over £1o million in research funding. and an external Research Fellow for ESRC Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE). He has supervised over 25 PhD students.
His research interests include poverty and deprivation traps, behavioral welfare economics, sovereign debt crisis and restructuring, endogenous formation of networks and groups, political economy; global cooperation for climate change, long run growth and foundations of general equilibrium. He has published in journals such Economic Journal, Revciew of Economic Studies, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic History, Frontiers of Neuroscience, Games and Economic Behavior, , Economic Theory and Journal of Mathematical Economics and includes a ISI highly cited paper.
He has authored/co-authored a number of policy reports (e.g. Chatham House), blogs (e.g. Vox EU, Ideas for India, The Conversation), newspaper articles (e.g. The Times of India and The Guardian) and presented research/evidence at the House of Commons and the Scottish Parliament. His research has been cited and discussed in the World Development Report 2015, the New York Times, The Times, The Guardian amognst other newpapers.
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Christine Valente is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Economics at the University of Bristol, UK and an IZA Research Fellow. Her main research interests lie in household decisions regarding fertility and human capital investments such as child education and child health. She has published a number of studies of secondary datasets from Africa and Asia using a range of microeconometric policy evaluation methods in, among others, the Journal of Development Economics and Journal of Health Economics. More recently, she has led complex projects involving primary data collection in Mozambique, namely a large randomized controlled trial project co-funded by the World Bank and the International Growth Centre ("Preventing excess female school dropout in Mozambique") and research on subjective beliefs and demand for contraception funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Academic economist doing research on social protection in developing countries.
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Knowledge Translation Specialist and Associate Director of Research Impact at the Public Policy Institute at the University of Auckland
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I am a physical education teacher in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I teach elementary students from ages 4 to 10.
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Rachel E. Brooks is a Rotary peace fellow at the University of Bradford in West Yorkshire, UK where she is pursuing an MA in international relations and security studies. Prior to her Rotary peace fellowship, Rachel managed social impact and experiential learning programs for the Center for Business, Government & Society at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. Before her role at Dartmouth, she spent two years on Jeju Island, South Korea teaching English to young women and North Korean defectors with the U.S. Department of State’s Fulbright Program and then served as chief coordinator of Fulbright Korea’s onboarding program. She now serves as a Fulbright U.S. student alumni ambassador as part of a group of about fifteen Fulbright alumni from different ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, states, fields of study, and institutions chosen to serve as recruiters and spokespersons for the program. A first-generation college graduate and native of Virginia, USA, Rachel earned her BA with honors from William & Mary as a Sharpe community scholar and honors fellow. Rachel continued learning with certificates in German and Spanish from Dartmouth College’s Rassias Center for World Languages & Culture and Korean from Korea University. She holds TEFL/TESOL certification and is an FSA credential level II candidate with the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB).
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I am a researcher, teacher and practitioner in the area of public policy in New Zealand and policy law transfer and localisation processes in developing nations. My previous work focused on social entrepreneurship and innovation in the area of development policy in the Democratic Republic of Congo and program monitoring and evaluation in Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania with World Vision. I am also continuing work on two research projects in Samoa; one focusing on the role of social entrepreneurs in Samoan society and a second on the policy responses to criminal deportees and their lived experiences in the process of immigration through deportation and re-assimilation and the role of innovative civil society organisations in this process. My objective is to continue to make a positive impact in public policy, development practice and policy in both the public or private sector.
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PhD in Sustainability
Expert in Energy Transformation, Renewable Energy and Storage Systems
Tools Mathematical optimization, Machine learning techniques and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)