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Inbal Orpaz is a strategic innovation consultant and the founder of Woman in Tech initiative.
A visiting researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies and consulting the Israeli Innovation Authority. She has a background as a tech correspondent for TheMarker. Elected to the Forbes Under30 list for 2017, to the Tech12 most influencing people in social media and the 100 most influential people in tech of Geektime. She holds an MBA from Tel Aviv University, and participated in the international exchange student program at at NYU; BA in Film Studies (cum laude) and Economics.
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Visiting Professor at ICRIER India. Retired Task Team Leader from World Bank's Digital Development Global Practice.
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Ziyin Xiong is an assistant professor in Shanghai jiaotong university, her research interests focus on education policy and teacher education. She obtained her PhD degree at the University of Toulouse, France. Before this, she obtained a Master's degree in international development and education at University College London and a Bachelor's degree at Beijing Normal University. From 2019 to 2021, she worked at the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) as an Education Policy Consultant for the Directorate of Education and Skills.
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I am a social demographer working with the National Data Innovation Centre at National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), Delhi. My primary areas of research are family demography, social change and gender, migration, education and development, and survey methods. I apply both quantitative and qualitative methods in my research. At present, I am deeply involved in questionnaire design and data collection activities of the third wave of India Human Development Survey. I received my PhD from University of Maryland, College Park.
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Research Associate with Eswatini Economic Policy Analysis and Research Centre (ESEPARC). Dedicated and experienced social science professional with over five (5) years of generating evidence for policy formulation, policy design, research, analysis, and article and report writing mainly on social issues impacting the economy ranging from education, science technology and innovation, entrepreneurship, agriculture, climate change, and rural development. Talented in the role of technical project support, combining extensive analytical abilities with technical expertise while prioritising information sharing and teamwork to facilitate cooperation and success.
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Debasis Barik is a Fellow at NCAER, working in the area of public health and mortality. His research interests are in public health, environmental health, demography, migration, healthcare financing, and gender. His current research focuses on environmental health. Dr. Barik holds a PhD in Population Studies from the International Institute for Population Sciences, India. He has been actively working as a core member of the India Human Development Survey (IHDS) Team, the only available national level panel data in India, for about a decade. He has been working in the expert panel of NHA & NTA.
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Professional with many years of international commercial experience working in Organizational Development, Talent Management, Diversity & Inclusion, Human Capital Consulting. Masters of International Management and a Masters in Organizational & Industrial Psychology. Currently Regional Head of Asia DEI for Deutsche Bank and based in Singapore.
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Dr. Syed Moniruzzaman is a senior lecturer at the Department of Risk and Environmental Studies and Centre for Societal Risk Research (CSR) at Karlstad University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Public Health from Karlstad University. As part of his research training – he has been affiliated with different universities and institutions, including Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm), World Health Organization (Geneva), and Southampton University (UK). His research focus has been injury epidemiology and global development, COVID-19, climate change, and health in Bangladesh.
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I head Ethiopia’s Society for Technology Studies (STS), which pursues its mission through science, technology and innovation (STI) policy research, training, policy advocacy, and knowledge dissemination seminars. I am also working with Ethiopian Academy of Sciences as Director of its Science Center. I have knowledge and experience in science, technology and innovation policy issues and consulted for international and regional organizations. I hold a BA in Economics from Addis Ababa University and an MSc in Science and Technology Policy from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.
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Fajar B Hirawan is a senior researcher in the department of economics, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Mr. Hirawan has worked with CSIS for more than 15 years. He was appointed head of the economics department in January 2022. Mr. Hirawan received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Indonesia and a master’s degree in development studies from Sapienza University of Rome. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Sydney.