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Dr Eghosa Ekhator is a senior lecturer in law at the University of Derby, United Kingdom. He was previously a lecturer in law at the University of Chester. He holds a Master of Laws (LLM) and PhD in Law from the University of Hull. Eghosa has also been called to the Nigerian Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. His main research areas include international environmental law (with focus on the African Union and developing countries) and natural resources governance. He has also published extensively on these research areas. Eghosa’s academic papers have been cited by a plethora of organisations and international agencies including the United Nations Refugee Agency and the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) ‘Responses to Information Requests (RIR) report (NGA106371.E) on Nigeria’ amongst others.
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Professor and IRB Chair at Lone Star College. I am an environmental scientist who volunteers in environmental justice issues related to water security.
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Dr Russell Kennedy is an academic and practitioner of communication design and filmmaking at Deakin University, Australia. He served as President of the International Council of Design (2009 and 2011). His research areas includes cultural identity and best practice policy as it relates to Indigenous representation in design practice. Dr Kennedy is the co-author of the multi award winning Indigenous Design Charters (Australian and International). In 2017 he was a committee member of the City of Greater Geelong's successful bid to join the UNESCO Creative City Network as a City of Design.
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I am a Senior Lecturer at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. I undertake research in inclusive health communication policies and practices. I also lead investigations into assistive technology, telehealth/mHealth, and service experience. I'm passionate about the inclusion of service users and people with lived experience in research and policy setting, and I love implementing inclusive research, co-design and usability methods into my own work, and supporting others with these approaches.
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Associate Professor - Social Work - Social Policy - Masaryk University, Brno Czech Republic
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Nándor PETROVICS works as an assistant lecturer at the Department of Public Policy and Management at the Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary), teaching courses both in English and in Hungarian for public policy and management master students in public policy analysis, cost-benefit analysis, program evaluation, and multi-level governance.
He is a doctoral student at the Doctoral School of Political Science and International Relations. His doctoral research focuses on governance networks in night-time economies, but his area of interest also covers public service co-production and other questions of network governance.
Nándor also has significant consultancy experience in different areas of public policy analysis and cost-benefit analysis for public investment projects.
Research topics: Governance Networks; Urban Governance; Network Governance; Public Service Co-Production; Night Studies; Night-Time Economy; Night-Time Governance; Public Policy Analysis; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Program Evaluation
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Consultant with FTI Consulting. Several years of international experience working on issues in financial markets, public policy and development. Currently working on professional projects related to building a sustainable and accessible financial system in developing economies. Also interested in urban planning, connectivity and infrastructure. Graduate of the University of Oxford (MSc, Department of International Development) and the University of St Andrews (MA Hons, School of International Relations and Modern Languages).
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I am an associate professor in education policy at the School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. After receiving a Ph.D. in higher education from the Pennsylvania State University, I worked at multiple international organizations including the OECD, UNESCO GEM Report, and UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning before relocating back to China in 2021. My current research focuses on secondary education policies and reforms in China, school tracking policies, and principal leadership.
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Economist and Professor at LMU Munich. Uwe Sunde is full professor of economics at the University of Munich (LMU), where he holds the chair of population economics. He obtained his PhD in economics from the University of Bonn and has taught at the University of St.Gallen before joining LMU Munich. Uwe Sunde is research professor at ifo, Munich and DIW, Berlin, and a fellow of the Center of Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, and of the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn. Uwe Sunde has made theoretical and empirical contributions in the field of economic growth and long-run development, population economics, labor economics, political economy, and behavioral economics.
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Ulf Rinne is a labor economist who works at IZA - Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn, Germany. His research interests are in various fields of empirical labor economics and applied microeconometrics. He is particularly interested in the evaluation of labor policies, in the design of immigration policies, in research on discrimination, and in the consequences of technological change and digitalization on the labor market.