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Professor of Education, Harvard University. Paola's research in educational linguistics examines language and literacy development in monolingual and bilingual learners and seeks to inform research-based pedagogies that empower all learners’ voices. She studied linguistics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and earned her doctoral degree in Human Development and Psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She leads the Language for Learning research team https://languageforlearning.gse.harvard.edu/.
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My expertise is heritage studies, cultural landscapes, museums, indigenous knowledge systems, & contemporary archaeology. My current research revisits the originating communities of ethnographic archives in Europe collected from W/Africa during colonialism to re-engage the descendant communities to understand changing significance of the archival materials/knowledge in the present. I have a PhD in Heritage Studies, an MA and BA in Archaeology & Tourism & a Diploma in Tourism and Museum Studies. I am a research fellow at the University of Bonn & a senior lecturer at he University of Nigeria.
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Evan Grégoire is a dual Ph.D. candidate specializing in political theory at Columbia University and Sciences Po, working with Nadia Urbinati (Columbia) and Bernard Reber (Sciences Po).
His dissertation seeks to answer the question, “under what conditions can deliberation work?" paying particular attention to the collegial and deliberative governance of professional service firms.
Evan Grégoire is a 2022-2023 Fulbright recipient. Prior to enrolling at Columbia, Mr. Grégoire received four master’s degrees with distinction from the École Normale Supérieure Ulm (in philosophy, with a concentration in contemporary philosophy), Paris Sciences et Lettres, Sciences Po (in political science, with a concentration in political theory) and HEC Paris (in management, with a concentration in sustainability and social innovation). He was a visiting student at Scuola Superiori Sant’Anna (Italy), Scuola di Studi Superiori "Ferdinando Rossi"(Italy), and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). As part of his Ph.D., Mr. Grégoire taught courses in political science and management both at Sciences Po and Columbia University and participated in the grading of graduate-level exams (notably, at the School of Management and Impact, the Paris School of International Affairs and Columbia School of Professional Studies).
Mr. Grégoire is a French citizen with fluency and international work experience in English and French. He also worked for leading companies including Mazars (the largest French consultancy) and Carrefour (the largest European food retailer), as well as top universities including the University of Bristol and ESCP Business School and international organisations (UNESCO). He speaks fluent French and Spanish which helped him conduct foresight analysis, write policy briefs and recommendations, as well as lead stakeholder engagement tasks.
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Jon Einar Flatnes is an applied development economist and Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. He holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural & Resource Economics from the University of California, Davis, USA. His area of expertise is poverty, resilience, and climate adaptation among poor and vulnerable populations, and his research to date has focused on understanding how innovative financial products, such as microfinance and insurance contracts, can help mitigate risk and improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.
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Massimiliano Mazzanti is full Professor in Economic policy, University of Ferrara, at the Department of
Economics & Management. He has directed the inter university centre SEEDS (www.sustainability-
seeds.org) since the foundation in 2012. He also directs the new CERCIS Research centre on the Circular
Economy, Innovation and SMEs (http://eco.unife.it/it/ricerca-imprese-territorio/centri-di-ricerca/cercis).
He graduated at the University of Bologna, he continued the education with Msc in Environmental
Natural Resources Economics at the Department of Economics, UCL London, and PhD.
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Cheryl Novak holds a MSt in International Relations from the University of Cambridge and a MSc in Sustainability and Quality in the Marine Industry from the University of Piraeus. She is a Research Associate at ELIAMEP working in the fields of sustainability and migration, and her research interests are Ocean Governance, Sustainability, Environmental Policy, Migration, and Female Empowerment.
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Researcher & Gender Expert with Integrated. A Published Researcher with two masters' degrees and over 8 years of experience in project coordination at various levels within international organizations. Nouha worked on different projects covering a variety of thematic with different stakeholders including governmental entities, research institutes, NHRIs, CSOs, CBOs, and DPOs. In the last few years, she carried out and supported national studies on masculinities, gender equality and social inclusion, such as the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES) and two USAID GESI analyses.