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Dr. Panagiotis Barkas is a Policy Officer / Economist for European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). He is an academic economist and policy analyst, whose work and research focuses on the design and implementation of economic policy and reforms, at both national and international level.
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Dr Rahman is an M&E expert that brings a range of experiences in research, evaluations and training in the South Asian region. With over 18 years of global experience, Dr Rahman has either conducted or managed over 100 baseline and 30 final evaluations on a range of themes including Livelihood, DRR & CC, Emergency Response, Extreme Poverty, Women Empowerment, Social Inclusion, gender inclusive development, capacity building within NGOs. Dr Rahman gained a PhD in Sociology in 2018, and besides M&E and Gender based research, has written and supported projects on livelihood.
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Samir Saran is President, ORF; Curator, Raisina Dialogue, India's premier conference on geopolitics and geoeconomics and Founder, CyFy, India’s annual conference on cybersecurity and internet governance. He is Member, India-CEO Climate Action Group and Global Risks Advisory Board at WEF. He has served as Commissioner, Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace and is a member of the Board of Directors at ORF America.
Samir's research focuses on global governance, technology and media, climate and energy policy. Author of four books and has edited multiple monographs & publications.
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Dr. HU Tao is now the Director of Lakestone Institute for Sustainable Development (LISD), President of Lakestone Academy of Marine S&T, Shenzhen and services as Chairman of Board of Professional Association for China’s Environment (PACE). He is one of the founding members of "China Carbon Neutrality Forum of 50 members" and Member of UN PRME China Academic Committee.
From January 2014- January 2019 he acted as the Managing Director of China Program, WWF-US, Washington DC. During 2012-2014, he was the Senior Fellow of World Resources Institute (WRI), Washington DC.
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I hold a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Granada (UGR). I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering at the Hashemite University in Zarqa, Jordan since 2020, I joined the Hashemite University in 2013. My research interests include transportation planning and management, traffic operation and management, traffic safety, and intelligent systems applications in transportation engineering. I worked on several local and international transportation projects while working in Land transport Regulatory Commision.
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Sharad Sharma co-founded iSPIRT Foundation, a non-profit technology think tank that has conceptualized India Stack, Health Stack and other digital public goods. Sharad also co-founded Teltier Technologies, a wireless infrastructure startup now part of CISCO. Sharad is a member of National Startup Advisory Council, SEBI's Financial and Regulatory Technology Committee and Chairs the taskforce on DPI in ThinkTank20 (T20) engagement group of G20. An alumnus if Delhi College of Engineering, he previously held R&D leadership positions at Yahoo, VERITAS, Symantec, Lucent and AT&T.
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Environmental Economist, Senior Lecturer, University of Cape Coast, Ghana.
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Dr. Nguyen Luu Bao Doan (Doan Nguyen) is the Department Chair and Director of the Bachelor’s Degree in Real Estate Program at the University of Economics - Ho Chi Minh City. He has also worked as a planning consultant since 2018. His primary research areas include land use, real estate, urban economics, and development issues. He has published in housing, urban planning, and land use. He is a member of the American Real Estate Society, Vietnam’s Vietnam Urban Planning and Development Association.
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Nam Pham is director of the Economy and Environment Partnership for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA) and Environment for Development center in Vietnam (EfD-Vietnam), UEH University. His research interests include environmental and experimental economics with a particular focus on climate change, green growth and behavioral development issues. He has published in a number opeer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic Behavioral and Organization, Journal of Economic Psychology, Land Use Policy or Journal of Development Studies.
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I am Professor of Environmental Management & Sustainability, at, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and Head of Department. I obtained a PhD in Environmental Management and I was previously a visiting scholar at the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI), Uppsala. I am currently a Visiting Researcher at the DSI/NRF/CSIR Chair in Waste and Society, University of the Western Cape SA. I have had policy engagements with Nigeria's Ministry of Environment. I focus on inclusion and equality in waste management, Gender analysis, Inclusive development, Justice and sustainability, and Climate Change