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Saara Thakur is a Public Health Specialist. She currently serves as the Scale-Up Lead on the Global Parenting Initiative providing technical guidance to global governments, UN agencies, NGO’s and partners to support the scale-up of in-person and digital evidence-based resources
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PhD in Economics and Finance of Public Administration from DEFAP and a Professional Master (LLM) in Environmental Law and Management. After more than ten years spent in academic research working on social issues employing quantitative and qualitative method, in 2017 she joined Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) as senior researcher and Project Manager. Since 2017 she is United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network Manager for Italy and Adjunct Professor at Catholic University of Milan. Since January 2021 she is Programme Director of the Research Programme Agenda 2030 at Feem.
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I am an applied economist whose broad research focuses on innovation in agriculture, poverty and inequality analysis, demographic, and health economics with special focus on women and children’s wellbeing. I combine rigorous impact evaluation tools and qualitative techniques to estimate quantitative impacts of various social interventions and to understand the underlying behavioural changes associated with interventions in developing country contexts. I am a senior lecturer at the department of Economics at the University of Ghana. I obtained my PhD in Economics at Clark University in the USA.
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Dr Jodie Hunter is a Professor in mathematics education at the Institute of Education at Massey University, New Zealand.
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Menusch Khadjavi is an Associate Professor of Economics at VU Amsterdam and Senior Researcher at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. He earned his doctorate from the University of Hamburg in 2013. His research provides insights into morally relevant behavior in economics, including emotional motivation and extrinsic incentives, charitable giving, discrimination, and environmental and resource economics. He often uses lab and field experimental methods in his research.
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Qixin Cai is a Ph.D. researcher at Renmin University of China and University of Pennsylvania. He received his M.P.A. from University of Macau, Macao SAR, China. He previously held administrative, teaching, and research appointments at University of Macau. He concentrates on both public administration and social policy, and his current research applies interdisciplinary methods to explain many forms of population aging and health for policymakers. He has worked closely with Chinese government agencies, academic institutions, and nonprofit organizations.
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Dr Deirdre McGillicuddy is Assistant Professor in Education in UCD School of Education and Director of the newly established BEd in Education, Gaeilge and Modern Languages. Deirdre's research is underpinned by the importance of working with and listening to the views of children and young people. She is particularly passionate about inequalities in education which stems from her time working as a primary school teacher in a DEIS school located in one of the most socio-economically challenged areas in the country. Deirdre believes in the transformative power of education.
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Professor of Urban Geography and GIS, Vice Dean of Faculty of Arts, Univ. of Fayoum, Egypt. Research focus on urban development, growth and hazards. I have alot of scientific paperes in the smsrt cities, the modeling of urban growth and recently in the Geo spatial AI.
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Professor Business & Enterprise, Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University.
PhD in Social Sciences and Education.
Research background in Self-employment as a work context, Leadership and Education. Specific focus on marginalised populations and self-employment, including minorities in developed nations affected by, for example, limitations to health and ability, gender and sexual orientation, poverty and social exclusion. Research also in developing economies, particularly focusing on the role and utility of self-employment/enterprise in economic development.
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I am a cross-cultural social psychologist, working as an Assistant Professor (PhD) at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. I mainly investigate majority members' acculturation towards cultures endorsed by ethnic minority members and experienced in shared societies. For example, what happens to white English nationals who prefer an integration strategy towards other cultures in a diversifying English society? I am also a board member of SIETAR UK (SUK), a founder of the RAAS project (which supports volunteers who work with refugees), and co-leader of the SIG Migration group at SIETAR Europa.