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Salvatore Barillà is a PhD candidate in Politics at the School of Social and Political Science of the University of Edinburgh. He obtained a combined Bachelor and master’s degree in Law at LUISS University (Rome) and a double master’s degree in European Studies at LUISS University and in International Relations at China Foreign Affairs University (Beijing). He is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AdvanceHE). He has served as a reviewer for Oxford University Press (OUP).
His current research investigates the EU and China in the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement, focusing on the role of ideas in international trade. In particular, it investigates the role of economic and legalistic programmatic beliefs in the EU and China's trade officials' approaches to the WTO dispute settlement.
He worked as a legal intern in multiple law firms in different countries, and as an intern at the commercial office of the Italian Embassy in Belgium.
He is interested in International Political Economy, International Trade and Investment Law, and EU-China studies.
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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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Sylvester has field and research experience in adolescents and young adults sexual behaviour and its psychological and sociocultural determinants. His research and community services are foregrounded on sexual health promotion and risk reduction among young people and evidence-based interventions and policies. Sylvester also conducts research on migrant health, health equity and the social aspects of emerging infectious diseases. He has worked in UNICEF and MacArthur Foundation funded projects on sexual and reproductive health and HIV/STIs prevention initiatives.
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Mariana Braga Neves is a psychologist, a specialist in comprehensive sexuality education, and a master's in education. She has been working for more than 25 years in psychology, social and educational policies, sexuality education, prevention of STI/ HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive rights, bullying and violence in schools, gender equity, and violence and inclusive education. She has been an Education Program Officer for the United Nations Educational Science and Culture (UNESCO) in Brazil since 2002.
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Jordan is focused on Health Equity as premise for achieving Sustainable Population Health which is the ultimate indicator for Sustainable Development (SD). He points out that all policies have differential impacts on health of populations, which if not properly assessed and considered can lead to growing health inequalities, thus impede SD. He argues that inclusive policies should be a normative goal and Health in All Policies is the right approach for operationalizing policies and investments in all sectors.
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Mónica Andrea Narváez Chicaíza has received her LLM degree from McGill University. She is a lawyer from the Universidad de Nariño, Colombia, and hold a degree in Social Security from the Universidad Externado de Colombia. Her main interest lies in the public policies in health as a mean to achieve well-living in the population. She is also interested in development law, especially in the achievement of sustainable development goals.
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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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Dr. Ritu Chandra is the Principal of Institute of Education , Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University,India. Dr. Chandra also worked as Head of the department, Humanities & Social Sciences. She had been also associated as visiting faculty in Dayalbagh Educational Institute (DEI), Deemed University, India. She has done her research in Education, Graduation in Teachers’ training programme and in Theology. Dr. Chandra’s primary research interests are Educational psychology with emphasis on inculcation of values, individual differences in behavior, personality and intellect , academic achievement of students with different socio economic status and their well being .