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Over two decades in ‘marketing for a better world,’ Sameer has taught, widely published in academic outlets, reviewed, trained and consulted with government and non-profit organizations in India, Canada, Singapore, Australia, and the U.S. He is the Editor of Social Marketing Quarterly. Sameer has raised over two million dollars and published studies testing the effectiveness of audience-oriented behaviour change initiatives in various contexts, including digital fin inclusion. Sameer is open to collaborating on using behaviour change principles to influence policies and upstream stakeholders.
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Man Kit (Karlo) Lei is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia, USA. His research interests include social determinants of health, criminology, structural inequality, family and neighborhood studies, and quantitative methods.
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Senior Behavioral/Social Scientist for the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation. Research areas include: homeland and national security law; regulation and policy, particularly as they relate to immigration, border security, migration, asylum and refugee processing; space governance and international law; law enforcement; and national defense; civil and criminal legislation, law, and litigation; statutory and regulatory compliance; international and customary law (including treaty-based regimes).
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Daniel Castro is vice president at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) and director of ITIF's Center for Data Innovation. He writes and speaks on a variety of issues related to information technology and internet policy, including privacy, security, intellectual property, Internet governance, e-government, and accessibility for people with disabilities.
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Padmaja Vedula is a Sr. Information Scientist at the nonprofit, nonpartisan, RAND Corporation, specializing in cyber policy and deterrence, emerging technologies, and digital transformation. She has a multidisciplinary background and her other areas of work include technology and social well-being, food security, forced migration, refugee assimilation, human rights, and environmental governance.
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Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Health Education at the U of North Carolina Greensboro. Health promotion and health policy researcher and advocate/author for advocacy and research leading to ‘policy, systems, and environmental’ change. Author of PhotovoiceKit.org designed to train and lead communities through local photovoice efforts leading to local changes that engender sustainable rather than solely individual-level impacts.
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Professor of economics at Universidad del Rosario (UR), Colombia, and Director of the Research Center on Equitable and Inclusive Progress (EQUIP). Former Dean of the School of Economics at UR. Holds a PhD in Economics from Boston University. He served as General Coordinator of the Colombian National Development Plan in in 2022 and 2014. Has held positions as Deputy Director of the Colombian National Department of Statistics, and member of different expert commissions on poverty, labor markets, and and inequality of Colombia.
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I am a professor of environmental economics at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. My research focuses on the design of environmental policy instruments. Recent focus has been on issues of acceptability of policy instruments, their distributional effects, and ways of making efficient instruments such as taxes more acceptable by refunding or using revenues constructively.
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I love tackling the challenges related to food systems, climate change and governance. Over the last 9 years, I have researched and engaged with policymakers on these topics in Belgium, South Africa, Mozambique, Kenya, Denmark and the Netherlands. My publications include academic articles, reports, blogs, and book chapters, combining qualitative and quantitative analyses.
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Rajendra Baikady, Ph.D.FRSA is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work, at the Central University of Kerala, India, and a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Social Work and Community Development, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Dr. Baikady is the Founding Editor in Chief of the Journal "Discover Global Society" published by Springer Nature, London.