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Dr. Akinnagbe Oluwole Matthew, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Extension and Communication Technology, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. He obtained his professional training at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He holds Ph.D in Agricultural Extension. He has over 16 years of field experiences in development work, teaching and research. He has consulted extensively on impact evaluation, need assessment, rural development, policy issues, climate change, child labour, food security and nutrition, ICT. He has over 60 publications in reputable journals.
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Niels G. Mede is a communication researcher and works as a Senior Research and Teaching Associate at the Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich, Switzerland. His research centres on science communication, digital media, public opinion about science, populism and science skepticism, as well as survey methodology.
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Donnie Adams obtained his Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from Universiti Malaya under the Bright Sparks scholarship and was awarded the Universiti Malaya’s Excellence Award 2016: PhD Completion in Less than 3 Years. He was recently awarded the Emerald Young Researcher Award 2021 by Emerald Publishing. He is actively involved in research and development work towards the area of inclusive school leadership and school-wide reformation of inclusive education agenda in Malaysia. He has led research projects with The British Council, ETH Zürich, The HEAD Foundation, and UNICEF.
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Associate Professor at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and
Social Sciences, University of Malaya. Thiru Subramaniam's areas of expertise are in Economic Development and Labour Economics. His
research areas are concentrated mainly in Economic Development in Southeast Asia and Labour Issues in Southeast
Asia.
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Papa Sow is a senior researcher interested in African social science studies, with special focus on Migration, Demography, Climate Change, Biodiversity and the anthropology of the body.
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Dr. Sushree Sangita Mohanty is a trained anthropologist with her primary research interest being socio-cultural life, multilingualism, and livelihood vulnerability of indigenous & low-income communities of Odisha. Her doctoral work was at the Central University of Hyderabad, where she explored different dimensions of indigenous changing socio-cultural lifestyles. Currently, she is working as Assistant Professor & Director of a centre to ease the process of multilingual education at KISS University and to build a strong educational foundation in indigenous first-generation learners.
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An ethnomethodologist, Dr Campbell studies the practices that enable ordinary people to (re)create all aspects of the social world for and by themselves. She holds a PhD (Exeter - in UK), EdM (Harvard), BA (SMU), BFA (SMU), and a professional certificate (Yale,). Currently a Fellow at the Edgelands Institute, her career has included a faculty role at Penn State University and research roles at Harvard and MIT. She is the author of 2 books published by Routledge and the winner of 2 Academy of Management awards for her work on inclusion in entrepreneurial contexts. She is Fulbright Specialist.
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Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of Dhaka and founder of the NGO named Center for Men and Masculinities Studies. Expert in gender and masculinities, gender equality, and women’s empowerment issues. Obtained PhD on Social and Behavioral Science and experienced in developing quantitative and qualitative analyses, policy briefs, and technical papers.
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Fellow at Bruegel, Brussels, and CASE - Center for Social and Economic Research in Warsaw, Visiting Professor at the Central European University in Vienna. First Deputy Minister of Finance of Poland (1989-1990) and a Member of the Monetary Policy Council of the National Bank of Poland (1998-2004). Involved in policy advising and research in 20+ countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and Africa under the UNDP, UNICEF, World Bank, IMF, EU, USAID, OECD, GIZ and OSI projects. Member of the Academia Europaea. Author of 300+ international publications.
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Dr. Md. Ahsan Habib is a professor and has been working as a faculty member in the Institute of Education and Research of University of Dhaka since 2005. He received his doctoral degree from prestigious Monash University, Melbourne. He has wide range of research interests including training, inclusive and disability, student voice, sense of belonging, ECCD. Several of his research papers and book chapters have been published by national and international publishers. Dr. Habib has been working as a research lead and consultant in several international and national projects.