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Rachel A. Aron currently works as a Principal Social Development Specialist at the African Development Bank Group. She holds a Master of Arts in International Development (specialization areas: community development and gender) from American University, Washington, DC, United States. She is fluent in French.
Rachel is a seasoned Social Development Specialist. She has immense experience in identifying, analyzing, managing, and monitoring and evaluating social considerations in programmatic and policy interventions. She has conducted social due diligence for private sector and public sector projects and programs in all regions of Africa, including in fragile and post-conflict countries. She has regularly presented at regional and international development forums. Her professional expertise over the years has been gained primarily at international organizations and at civil society organizations.
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Programme Management Officer (Governance) at the UN Environment/Mediterranean Action Plan Coordinating Unit - Barcelona Convention Secretariat
Chemical Engineer, PhD
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Julie Vaillé is a Senior Research Fellow at the french Think Tank "Sustainable Development and International Relation Institut" (IDDRI). Her work focuses on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and the reforms required by this agenda in terms of financing for development.
Before joining IDDRI, Julie worked as a policy advisor at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs for French official development assistance (ODA) strategy and the post-2015 international negotiations. She also worked at the European Commission in the Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO), where she dealt with EU strategic planning on official development assistance. From 2007 to 2012, Julie worked as a project manager in microfinance non-governmental organisations (NGOs) at ADIE and Planet Finance.
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My PhD- background is in data analysis and scientific visualization.
Currently I am working as Posts-Doc on the communication of climate change scenarios with a focus on socio-economic/ mitigation scenarios from the IAM community. Our current communication offensive of the SENSES projects also includes climate change (CMIP) - and impact- projections (ISIMIP).
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Graduate in Chemical Technologies at University of Tirana, Albania. Postgraduate in Environment Management and Technologies, EPFL Switzerland. Lector at Tirana University until 1998. Senior management positions at National Environment Agency and Ministry of Environment of Albania 1998-2003; Since 2003 join UNEP Mediterranean Action Plan Secretariat in different positions, Since October 2016 UNEP MAP Deputy Coordinator. Main field of expertise: environmental governance, marine pollution assess and control, ocean governance, integrated monitoring and assessment of marine and coastal environment, marine litter management.
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Public Health expert over 25 year of experience. Holds 2 masters and a doctorate. Area of expertise is communicable disease control and immunization
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Jyldyz Djumalieva is a Data Science Research Fellow at Nesta. She is leading on a stream of labour market research work for ESCoE (the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence). Prior to joining Nesta Jyldyz was a Data Analyst at the Bank of England where she worked on projects involving text mining, social media analysis and graph databases. Jyldyz completed a MSc with distinction in Big Data Analytics from the Sheffield Hallam University and a MSc in Organisational Psychology from the University of Hartford, CT. As part of ESCoE, Jyldyz has created the first data-driven classification of skills in the UK that is publicly available. The classification was created by using a dataset of 41 million UK online job adverts and by applying machine learning methods, such as Natural Language Processing (NLP), document clustering, and distributed word representations. The resulting classification provides a consistent way of measuring skills shortages at a granular level, and provides the first link between skills and job titles which in turn could be used to improve careers advice.
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Julien Le Tellier is Programme Management Officer in charge of Socio-Economic Affairs at the UN Environment/Mediterranean Action Plan - Barcelona Convention Secretariat in Athens, Greece, since 2017. His activities aim at supporting the implementation and follow-up of the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development (MSSD). This position follows his long engagement in the work of the MAP - Barcelona Convention system at the Plan Bleu Regional Activity Centre in Marseille, France, where he worked for 8 years as Sustainable Development Programme Officer. Julien holds a PhD (2006) from Aix-Marseille University, France, and a post-PhD (2007) in Rabat, Morocco, in Geography and Urban Planning.
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I am an Economist/Urban and Regional Planner with over 25 years of substantive and progressive experience at international, regional and national levels, providing transformative leadership, technical and advisory services in development of strategies in sustainable development. I am results-oriented and strategic. I am passionate, creative, energetic, entrepreneurial and networker ready to apply my full capabilities to support and address urgent developmental challenges.
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Urban development professional specializing in economic development related topics. Love working on workforce development issues and how inclusion helps solve economic development challenges in communities and spread prosperity more broadly.