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Toyin Ajibade, a lecturer and researcher at the University of Ilorin Nigeria, holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics. Toyin had about eight years of cognate banking experience before venturing into academia. An International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) research fellow, her doctoral research was on Price Discovery and Volatility of Selected Food Crop Markets in Nigeria. Toyin’s career goal is to be at the forefront of agricultural trade, markets, and industrial organization agenda towards regional trade integration and agricultural value chain development in Africa.
Toyin is an advocate for agricultural value chain development and has been actively involved with curriculum development, training of value chain actors, and financial institutions such as to build formidable value chains across various crops in Nigeria. Toyin has conducted agribusiness and agricultural finance training of financial institutions for various organizations including commercial banks, AFOS Foundation for Entrepreneurial Development Cooperation (African Trust Funds Entrepreneurial Development, and impact investors, among others.
Toyin has been engaging with stakeholders across various levels of involvement including research institutions, funding organizations, insurance institutions, donor agencies, the private sector, and the Government. Toyin is currently involved with the NICOP component of the West Africa Competitiveness Project in developing and adapting financial literacy manuals and training toolkits for Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) German Development Cooperation which is co-financed by the European Union for Farmers in selected food value chains and MSMEs in the leather and garment sectors in Nigeria.
Toyin is a co-Principal Investigator on Feed-The-Future Legume Systems Innovation Lab-funded projects targeted at Promoting Trade Integration in Africa Regional Legume Markets through mobile technology app which is being developed for the legume traders and farmers in West Africa region. Toyin has been a consultant for International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Nigeria and Mali where she has carried out various researches in the millet and sorghum value chains.
Toyin is a climate-change enthusiast who looks forward to doing more multidisciplinary researches that will be addressing climate change challenges, bearing in mind the threats this poses to food production and food security in an interconnected world.
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I am the co-Founder and inaugural Director of the Impact Evaluation (IE) Lab at Tanzania's Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF). The IE Lab's Mission is to expand the impact evaluation space in Tanzania through capacity-building of local researchers in IE methods; facilitating interactions between IE researchers, both local and international, and policy-makers; producing cutting-edge rigorous impact evaluated-knowledge of interventions and policies; to ultimately inform better policies that improve the lives of Tanzanians.
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Assistant Professor Dr Ruttiya is a lecturer, and a Vice Dean at the College of Population Studies, Chulalongkorn University. She has been actively working in the area of labour market analysis, skills, gender, migration, and labour policy linkages.
For many years, she joined the ILO and worked on various issues, including labour market analysis, skills, gender, migration, as well as disaster and the labour market. She is an international consultant who conducted researches in many Asian countries for UNIDO, OECD and ILO. She is also a Project Manager of a Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development Project (SATREPS) on Regional Resilience Enhancement through Establishment of Area-BCM at Industry Complexes in Thailand.
She continuously contributes to academic areas and promotes linkages of labour researches into policies and practices using an interdisciplinary approach. Currently, she is a director/ key coordinator of Collaborating Centre for Labour Research at Chulalongkorn University, Secretariat to National Labour Research Centre at the Ministry of Labour, and a committee member on labour reform, Thai Senate of Thailand. She also conducted a Government Laboratory for government staffs on a design thinking basis and human-centre design.
She has committed to advance linkages between labour researches and inclusive policies for all groups of people toward inclusive growth.
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Salvador Santino Fulo Regilme Jr. (born 1986) is a tenured Associate Professor of International Relations (Universitair hoofddocent) based at the Institute of History at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Born in the Philippines and educated in Germany and the United States, he is a Dutch scholar focusing on international human rights norms, North-South relations, global security issues, and contemporary United States foreign policy. At Leiden University, he serves as the Chair of the MA in International Relations Program.
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I study government security responses to violence and insurgency in Sub-Saharan Africa. My research focuses on how states maintain security by exploring government action towards political violence, conflict, terrorism, and insurgency in this region.
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José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez is an Economic Historian with a strong background in economic theory and industrial organization.
His thesis was centered on traditional irrigation communities in Murcia, Spain. Some of the towns in the region used auctions to allocate water from the river while most others allocated the water through fixed quotas. He recovered auction data and estimated water demand, to assess the efficiency of each system.
He also works on diverse areas such as auction theory, mechanism design and political economy.
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I am a PhD student in Government at Harvard University. I research at the intersection of migration and the domestic politics of foreign policy. Specifically, I study the relationship between the policy preferences of diaspora communities and the foreign policy decisions of their home countries, with respect to ethnic lobbying, nationalist protests, and diplomatic signaling. I have secondary interests in the role of race in international relations and the role of emotions in politics. I am an alumna of the University of California, Berkeley, where I studied towards a BA in History. From 2017 - 2019, I was a Clarendon Scholar at the University of Oxford and graduated with an MPhil in International Relations. Prior to starting my PhD at Harvard, I worked at United Nations Global Pulse in New York and as a research assistant for Dr. David Malone, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, at All Souls College, Oxford.
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Sam Ritholtz is a researcher in the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, where they study the dynamics of prejudicial violence against sexual and gender minorities during the internal armed conflict in Colombia. Sam’s broader research explores LGBTIQ+ experiences of crisis, conflict, and displacement. Outside of academia, Sam has worked on human rights and gender issues for a range of institutions, including the United Nations’ Executive Office of the Secretary General as well as human rights organizations in Washington DC and Buenos Aires. Sam has written for The New Humanitarian, Slate, and Newsweek and the Daily Beast’s Women in the World Foundation. Originally from New York, Sam has an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford and a BSc in International Agriculture and Rural Development from Cornell University.
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Professor Ndedi book was featured among the 28 Best Intrapreneurship Books of All Time (https://bookauthority.org/books/best-intrapreneurship-books). Former World Bank and USAID consultant, chairman of lance d’afrique, Executive Director of Cameroon Human Resources SARL and author of more than 30 books, Alain Ndedi who holds a PhD in business management and another one in forensic accounting, is a professor with an extensive experience in entrepreneurship, finance, and economic development for the past 15 years. He has supervised more than 40 PhD students and approximately 50 Masters students.
He was Dean at Saint Monica University, within the School of Business and Public Policy; lecturer of entrepreneurship and project management at the university of Johannesburg, Université de l’entrepreneuriat and at the Higher Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship (IME). He is a visiting professor at Hope Africa University and International Leadership University where he teaches Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Strategic Management, and Organisational Behaviour.
Professor Ndedi has consulted for the UNDP, African Union, NEPAD, and many African governments on issues related to public finance, budget management, monitoring and evaluation. Associated as professor with Charisma University since 2014, Professor Ndedi held position at the University of Johannesburg, Researcher at Wits University, Lecturer at Boston College, external examiner at the University of Cape Peninsula, State University of New York (SUNY), and the University of Johannesburg. He worked as Political Analyst at SABC, South African Broadcasting Corporation, a state-owned public broadcaster in South Africa. From 2004-2008, he was Director at YENEPAD, a platform of African scholars based in South Africa working on African renaissance programmes.
Professor Ndedi wrote Case studies on Volkwagen unethical behaviour, the war between Komatsu and Caterpillar, the WhatsApp founders Bryan Ancton and Jan Koum, the Maponya Mall in Soweto, the battle between Coca Cola and Pepsi, the google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the Douala Stock Exchange, Yahoo downfall, and the Shell corporate irresponsibility behaviour in Nigeria.
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I'm a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations, at the University of Oxford. My research focussed on education politics, with a specific interest in the role of parties, unions, and social movements in shaping educational institutions. I also work on far-right education politics as well as the connection between (language) education policy, nationalism, and minority rights.