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With over 25 years of experience in anti-doping, this distinguished University Professor holds several key roles. As the Coordinator for the National Compliance Platform for the UNESCO Convention, they play a pivotal role in ensuring adherence to anti-doping standards. Furthermore, they serve as the Secretary of the Sports Medicine & Anti-Doping Commission at the Lebanese Olympic Committee and act as the Liaison Officer at the West-Asia RADO, contributing significantly to the world of sports integrity and values.
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Dr. Fatima Abouali serves as the President of the Moroccan Anti-Doping Agency and the Regional Anti-Doping Organization for North Africa. Her expertise as a medical doctor specialized in pharmaco-toxicology in Rabat, Morocco is complemented by her role as the Moroccan government's Representative to UNESCO and the European Council in anti-doping matters. She's also the first vice president of the African Federation for Sports Medicine.
Dr. Fatima Abouali holds a Doctorate in Medicine from Mohammed V University and a University Diploma in “Scientific Medical Communication”.
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Daniela Andrén is Associate Professor of Economics at Örebro University School of Business, Sweden. Her main research interests are labor and health economics, with focus on the evaluation of public policies. Currently, her research revolves around work-integrating social enterprises, individual well-being, and societal welfare, taking into account population preferences for allocating limited resources and their willingness to pay for interventions designed to protect individuals and society from adverse events. She also actively participates in educational projects.
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My name is Dr Fanny Froehlich MA MPhil and I work as a Senior Research Associate at University of Bristol, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies. I conduct research and university teaching in the field of gender and international development with my current project focusing on 'Local Meets Global: Engaging with International Development Research, Policy and Practice around Gender and Social Transformation'. In my work, I draw on qualitative methods and a critical feminist post-colonial lens with a strong interest in the potential and limitations of 'decolonising development'.
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Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Health at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and Visiting Professor (September 2023/January 2024) at the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University. His main academic interests are aging and the life course, social inequalities in old age, cross-national studies, and research methods. Thanks to the support of international and national networks, his research on social disparities in health and employment domains among older persons have been featured in some of the top gerontological and life course journals.
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John Oti Amoah is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Gender Research, Advocacy and Documentation (CEGRAD), University of Cape Coast (UCC), Ghana and an affiliate Lecturer at the Centre for African and International Studies, UCC, Ghana, where he teaches courses in Research Methods, Sexuality and Conflict at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research interest includes gender, social policy, livelihoods, labour, sanitation and health. John holds a PhD in Development Studies with specialisation in Gender, Social Protection and Livelihoods from UCC, Ghana and the University of Kassel
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Dr Mona Ibrahim is the policy engagement coordinator in the UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub, based in the University of Oxford. Her role is to support research uptake to build evidence-based policies and programs across sub-Saharan Africa. Holding a medical degree and an MSc, Mona’ background is in tropical medicine and international health. She has worked on a range of themes including health system strengthening, HIV and AIDS, pro-poor health equity, food security, and social safety nets. She is keen to continue supporting human rights-based approaches to improve population health wellbeing.
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Manal Etemadi is a Research Fellow in the Arc West’s Health Economics team and has a solid commitment to pro-poor health policy making and has published several peer-reviewed papers in international journals touching on social health protection, pro-poor health financing, and subsidization of the poor. Manal holds a Ph.D. in Health Policy from the Iran University of Medical Sciences. She has been deeply involved in the formulating policy briefs and policy documents in Health Insurance system in support of the poor’ access to health services.
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Dr. Ogbonna is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Development, Peace and Conflict Studies, at Kampala International University, Uganda, where he also serves as the Research Coordinator. He is an interdisciplinary scholar whose areas of specialization encompass Conflict analysis and peacebuilding; Human rights and social development. He holds a PhD and an MPhil. in Peace, Conflict and Develoment Studies from the UNESCO Chair of Philosophy for Peace, Universitat Jaume Spain. He is an academic friend of indeginous Peoples under OHCHR. He is the author of Belligerent Peace.
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Andrew Crawford is a doctoral candidate at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, and a Research Fellow at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). His research focuses on development policy including microfinance, digitalization and democratization.