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Luna Glucksberg is an urban anthropologist looking at inequality and socio-economic stratification in contemporary society. She has worked extensively on elites and how they reproduce; on the roles of women and family offices in the reproduction of dynastic families; and on how philanthropy can be used by elites to strengthen their own family dynamics.
She is currently leading an international project aiming to challenge the rise in wealth inequality by collecting and examining examples of communities that have successfully resisted the processes that funnel wealth up and away from them. Where and when, how and why, have groups been able to stand up against the systems and patterns that systematically extract wealth from their local communities? How have they managed to reverse them? What can be learned from these examples? How do we apply those lessons in other locations, under different conditions?
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Dr Hibist Kassa is an expert on feminist political economy who completed her doctorate in the University of Johannesburg in 2019. Hibist is a Research Associate at the Centre for African Studies and Chair in Land and Democracy in South Africa at the University of Cape Town. She was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at the University of Witwatersrand. She has also been an Executive Committee member of Development Alternatives with Women in a New Era (DAWN). She is currently Policy Interface Fellow at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom.
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Dr Foley, Editor in Chief of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews is a Reader and Advisor of Studies with the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Queen’s University Belfast. She has a h-index of 20 (Scopus), 18 (Web of Science) and 23 (Google Scholar). She is a member of the Editorial Board of Elsevier’s Renewable Energy and the Editorial Panel of the Institution of Civil Engineers Proceedings in Transport. She is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of Engineers Ireland and a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Authority and a member of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) and Power Energy Society (PES). She has a BE(Hons) (1996) (Civil & Environmental Engineering) and a PhD (2011) (Energy Engineering) from University College Cork and an MSc (1999) (Transportation Engineering) from Trinity College Dublin. Dr Foley returned to full-time academia in 2009 after 12 years in industry, since then she has accessed more than €3 million in research. Her work is truly interdisciplinary and driven by societal needs and challenges. Her research focuses on wind forecasting, wind power integration, power and gas systems and transport electrification.