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Scientist of the Economic analysis of Climate Impacts and Policy (ECIP) Division at the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC). Leader of the macroeconomics and finance research unit. His main research fields are economics of climate change impacts and policy assessment. He has contributed to the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP), collaborated with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Visiting researcher at the Centre for European Economic Research/Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH (ZEW) in 2010.
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Prof. (Dr.) Vivek Kumar, Professor of Sociology and Former Chairperson, Center for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Columbia University, New York, USA in 2012 and a Visiting Faculty at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Prof. Vivek Kumar has delivered the inaugural Ambedkar Memorial Lectures at the University of British Columbia, Simon Frazer University, and York University, all from Canada (2018).
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Dr Kukutai is Professor of Demography at The University of Waikato in Aotearoa New Zealand. She specialises in Māori and Indigenous population research and has published extensively on Indigenous demography, data sovereignty, official statistics and ethnic classification. She has undertaken research for numerous Māori communities and Government agencies and provided strategic advice across a range of sectors. She has a PhD in Sociology from Stanford University and is a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
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Carlos, engineer with 5+ years' Sustainable Development experience across 11 countries specially in Africa and the Middle East. Specializes in ESHS Management, ESG consulting, policy development, climate mitigation, stakeholder engagement. Expertise in Infrastructure, Transportation, Renewable Energies, Waste Management, and Nature-Based Solutions. Knowledge of IFC PS, World Bank EHS guidelines, and EP IV. Certified in World Bank's Environmental and Social Framework. Proficient in English, French, Spanish.
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Professor of digital humanities, Cambridge University
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• Doctor of Philosophy
• MBA (Spec. Finance) University of Mauritius
• ACCA and FCCA (1993)
Kesseven Padachi is a Professor at the University of Technology, Mauritius. He holds a PhD in small business finance and is a fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants, UK. His research has primarily been on SMEs, with emphasis on working capital management. Through collaborative research he has developed research interest in the field of finance, Corporate Governance, and e-banking, financial literacy and digital literacy.
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I am Senior Lecturer in Banking at the University of Manchester and currently Head of Management and Organisation Studies group. I was Director for Social Responsibility at the Business School. I am Associate Editor of Journal of Cultural Economy and have published extensively on socially responsible finance. My research interests are socially responsible finance and business and cultural economy. I have acted as consultant and advisor to public and private institutions internationally and advised research projects internationally in Denmark, Germany, Finland, Portugal, Brazil, U.K.
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Registered Social Worker,; Associate Professor; Chair McMaster Research Ethics Board. My research focuses on the relationship between policy and practice for social workers and service users. My research also considers the significance of digital media in supporting self advocacy and critique for Social Workers and members of equity seeking groups.
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I am Full Professor of Education in UCD School of Education and Vice Principal for Research, Innovation and Impact in UCD College of Social Sciences and Law. My specialist field is sociology, researching at the intersection of sociologies of education and sociologies of childhood, and the impact of education on society. I am currently leading two large-scale mixed methods longitudinal studies exploring children’s schooling experiences in Ireland (Children’s School Lives www.cslstudy.ie) and in Sierra Leone (the Safe Learning Study; www.safelearning.ie).
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Gaurav is a Healthcare Consultant, driven by a desire to unify decentralised health, welfare schemes & academic fellowships more accessible for eligible beneficiaries. He is the Founder of Karmanya (NPO) a digital platform enabling ‘accessible health, welfare & education for the last-mile communities’ centred around government welfare schemes and academic fellowships with end-to-end application support.
Gaurav believes that shortfall in tech acumen or cognizance shouldn't cause a setback; rather, technology should be tailored to the user’s needs and capabilities.