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Hanan Badr is a media and communication scholar. Her work focuses on digital journalism, comparative media systems and transformation. She is Associate Professor at Gulf University for Science and Technology. Adopting a critical lens, she seeks to understand how political and digital transformations change journalism and media systems with a focus on the Arab region. and Europe. She held positions at Freie Universität Berlin, Cairo University and Orient-Institut Beirut. Hanan won awards including the Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress. She was elected as a Vice-Chair for the Activism, Communication and Social Change at the International Communication Association.
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Richard Albert is Professor of World Constitutions and Director of Constitutional Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. A counselor to multinational organizations, governments, and political parties, he is an expert in democratic innovation and constitutional reform. He has published over 20 books, including Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions (Oxford University Press 2019). He is the Founder and Director of the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism, whose mission is to marshal knowledge and experience to build a world of opportunity, liberty, and dignity for all. Born and raised in Ottawa, he is a former law clerk to the Chief Justice of Canada and a graduate of Yale, Oxford and Harvard. As of July 2021, he is Co-President of the International Society of Public Law, the world’s leading organization for the study and practice of public law.
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I am a professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, and the president of a policy evaluation company called Evaluasi.
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Ciaran is an urban planning professional with experience working in the United Kingdom and Australia. His research interests include digital technologies, urban geography, environmental management and design.
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Michael G Breen is a Lecturer in Public Policy (MECAF) at the University of Melbourne (UOM). He held a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Melbourne from 2018-2020, focussing on federalism in Asia, after completing his PhD at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2017. Michael has since published widely on issues related to federalism and multilevel governance, especially as it pertains to ethnic division and conflict, and reforms in Asia, as well as deliberative democracy in Asia. He has also advised on federal reforms in Nepal, Myanmar and Philippines, and consulted for organisations including the United Nations Development Programme. Before academia, Michael was a senior policy-maker and project manager in government departments in South Australia and Victoria, Australia, in particular in the field of Indigenous rights.
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Lecturer in Politics at University of Liverpool, UK. Specialises in feminist politics, reproductive justice, gender security. Co-chair of Feminist Studies Association of UK and Ireland, co-founder of Reproductive Health Law and Policy Advisory Group. Currently working on abortion and healthcare in Malta and Northern Ireland and reproductive rights of survivors of human trafficking in Uganda and Sierra Leone.
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Dr Kai Ruggeri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy & Management at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He studies fundamental questions of population behavior and decision-making, with a focus on how how integrating behavioral evidence into policies can reduce inequalities and improve population well-being. His recent projects involve behavioral policy studies focusing on large-scale data related to economic choices and related outcomes, which have been covered in media around the world. Collaborating partners include local and national governments, non-profit organizations, industry, and other academic institutions, in New York, various parts of the US, and abroad. Kai joined Columbia from the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, where he directed the Policy Research Group that he founded in 2013.
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Pratham Hombal is an environmental advocate, focusing on alleviating the effects of urban air pollution. Growing up in California's Central Valley, Pratham witnessed the adverse effects of air and water pollution in his local community. Inspired to make a difference, he started The Ecolibrium Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to spreading environmental education and promoting stewardship in communities across the United States. Through this, the nonprofit has started 42 chapters in 13 states across the US. The nonprofit regularly holds volunteer and public information events. Pratham is also involved in his local Citizens' Climate Lobby and Sierra Club chapters. His work has been recognized by the Ashoka Foundation, the Yale Center for Race, Indigeneity, & Transnational Migration, and Prudential Financial, and he has been featured on social campaigns by General Motors.
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Dimitris Skleparis is a Senior Lecturer in the Politics of Security at Newcastle University. His research is at the intersection between critical security studies and migration/refugee studies. He is interested in how migration is governed, perceived, portrayed and experienced amid increasing insecurities. He focuses particularly on the dynamics between security discourse and practice and their human impact. He approaches these issues from an interdisciplinary, and mixed methods standpoint.
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I'm interested in social anthropology, especially: Economic anthropology.Orientalism,anthropology of crime and,conscious integration for that I wrote More than 11 well-established researches in international university journals in various public universities, in addition to approvals for other publishing researchs, and three academic books in criminal anthropology during the Covid-19 period waiting for its printing and publication
In addition to Scientific participation in four international scientific conferences and the presentation of four scientific papers at the University of London, Cairo University, Helwan University and Sudan