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Jens Jungblut works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR) at Stanford University and a postdoctoral researcher at the International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER) at the University of Kassel. He received his PhD from the University of Oslo. His main research interests include party politics, policy-making, and public governance in the knowledge policy domain (higher education & research), organizational change in higher education, and the role of (academic) expertise in policy advice.
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Jakob is Research and Policy Officer at OPHI. He does both academic research on multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis and associated areas – and he works with international partners in United Nations agencies and governments around the world towards the development of multidimensional poverty indices as permanent official statistics and all-of-government policy-tools.
Jakob is also Lecturer at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany.
He previously held research positions at the Blavatnik School of Government and Mansfield College (both University of Oxford), and has worked in diplomacy for the German Federal Foreign Office.
Research interests
Theories, measurement, and analysis of well-being, poverty and inequality; welfare economics; sustainable (human) development; social protection; evidence-based public policy; and the capability approach.
Select Publications
2021
UNDP and OPHI (2021). Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021. Unmasking Disparities by Ethnicity, Caste and Gender. New York: United Nations Development Programme.
WHO (2021). Using Multidimensional Poverty and Vulnerability Indices to Inform Equitable Policies and Interventions in Health Emergencies. Geneva: World Health Organization.
Dirksen, J. and Alkire, S. (2021). ‘Children and Multidimensional Poverty. Four Measurement Strategies’, Sustainability, Vol. 16, No. 13: 9108. DOI: 10.3390/ su13169108. (Also published as: OPHI Working Paper 138, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.)
NPC (2021). Nepal Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021. Analysis Towards Action. Kathmandu: National Planning Commission, Government of Nepal.
2020
Dirksen, J. (2020). ‘Which Are the Dimensions and Indicators Most Commonly Used to Measure Multidimensional Poverty Around the World?’, Dimensions, Vol. 11: 14-22.
Alkire, S., Dirksen, J., Nogales, R. and Oldiges, C. (2020). ‘Multidimensional Poverty and Vulnerability to COVID-19. A Rapid Overview of Disaggregated and Interlinked Vulnerabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa’, OPHI Briefing 54a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Dirksen, J., Nogales, R. and Oldiges, C. (2020). ‘Multidimensional Poverty and Vulnerability to COVID-19. A Rapid Overview of Disaggregated and Interlinked Vulnerabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa’, OPHI Briefing 54, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford. This briefing is also available in French.
Alkire, S., Dirksen, J., Nogales, R. and Oldiges, C. (2020). ‘Multidimensional Poverty and COVID-19 Risk Factors. A Rapid Overview of Interlinked Deprivations Across 5.8 Billion People’, OPHI Briefing 53a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Dirksen, J., Nogales, R., and Oldiges, C. (2020). ‘Multidimensional Poverty and COVID-19 Risk Factors. A Rapid Overview of Interlinked Deprivations Across 5.7 Billion People’, OPHI Briefing 53, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Dirksen, J., Oldiges, C. and Nogales, R. (2020). ‘Multidimensional Poverty and the Risk from COVID-19’, Dimensions, Vol. 9: 7-10.
UNDP and OPHI (2020). Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2020. Charting Pathways out of Multidimensional Poverty: Achieving the SDGs. New York: United Nations Development Programme.
OPHI (2020). Multidimensional Poverty in Chhattisgarh: A Measure for Action. Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
2019
UNDP and OPHI (2019). Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2019. Illuminating Inequalities. New York: United Nations Development Programme.
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Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra is Reader in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability at King's Business School. She is the author of The Venture Capital State: The Silicon Valley Model in East Asia (Cornell University Press, 2018) and Inclusive Innovation (co-authored with Alex Glennie and Courtney Savie Lawrence, Routledge, 2022). Before joining King's College London in 2014, Robyn was a Senior Research Fellow, in charge of venture policy, at the Coller Institute of Venture at Tel Aviv University. Robyn’s research focuses on innovation, entrepreneurship, corporate sustainability and entrepreneurial clusters and has been published in highly-ranked peer-reviewed journals, including International Affairs, Journal of Development Studies, New Political Economy, Regulation & Governance, and Socio-Economic Review, and International Affairs. She holds a Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Research Grant (2019-2023). Robyn received her BA from the University of Michigan (2003), was a visiting scholar at the National University of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (2012), and obtained her MSc and PhD in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics & Political Science. She is Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (HEA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).
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Founder of LiiV and CEO of Splashlight and Telmar. Experienced thought leader, entrepreneur and executive, with over 20 years of corporate experience and a passion for creative digital technologies.
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Brenda Okorogba is an award-winning service and learning experience designer. She is deeply passionate about championing equitable education, economic dignity, gender equity, social inclusion, community wellness, and collective prosperity. As the founder of Momentswithbren Consulting, a boutique professional training and coaching firm based in Canada, Brenda is wholly committed to offering coaching support, providing training opportunities, promoting holistic development, fostering educational equity, cultivating economic dignity, and nurturing an emotionally agile community.
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Felix Biermann is Assistant Professor in International Relations/Global Governance at LMU Munich. Having worked on the so-called refugee crisis, the Brexit, and researching the “Eurocracy”, Felix is keen to develop a broad perspective on European studies. Moreover, Felix' research interests cover the new governance challenges arising from digitalization as well as the current trends in the global institutional order. Felix holds a BA degree in Philosophy & Economics from Bayreuth University and a Master of Public Policy from the Willy-Brandt-School of Public Policy. Before joining LMU Munich, he worked as a senior public sector consultant for an international management consultancy.
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I am a Senior Lecturer and Associate Chair at the Department of Economics of Yale University. I received my PhD degree in Economics from the Athens University of Economics and Business. My research revolves around competition, markets and innovation. I study the Economics of Artificial Intelligence and how cutting-edge technologies transform business. My research focuses on analyzing the effects of risk and the diffusion of scientific knowledge on firms’ incentives to innovate and compete. I also examine the conditions under which workers help or sabotage their colleagues in their attempt to build up their own reputation.
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Bambang Permadi Soemantri Brodjonegoro is an Indonesian economist. He is now the Minister of Research and Technology/National Research and Innovation Agency since 25 October 2019. Previously, he was the Minister of National Development Planning of Indonesia
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Worked in academia and the private sector (banking) across three continents and over nine cities. Research interest on development, focusing on anti-money laundering, infrastructure, and institutions. On the latter, my current interest is on cultural narratives about gender inequalities.
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Reader in International Politics at Queen Mary University of London, UK. www.leejones.tk.