Short description:
Professor Elizabeth Grant's expertise is research and design consultancy in the field of Indigenous architecture and placemaking, housing and community infrastructure design, institutional environments ( in particular the design of criminal justice and education environments) and design for people with physical and/or psychosocial disability and reform for Indigenous peoples.
Grant is a Churchill Fellow, has published four books and over 70 papers and serves as a peer reviewer and referee for more than 10 international journals. She is the lead editor of the International Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture (Springer 2018).
Professor Grant is an elected member of Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), a member of the International Association for People-Environment Studies (IAPS), the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA), the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), the Australian New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC), the Australia and New Zealand Chapter of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies and a member of the expert panel of the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA) research group.
Grant has extensive track record–and international pre-eminence–across the field of Indigenous architecture and placemaking. She has been the chief investigator on numerous research projects. She has also led over 20 research consultancies related to responsive and humane design for Indigenous peoples. Grant has an extensive record of working with national and international Government, research, industry, community and in particular, Aboriginal community and organisations.
Short description:
Julia chairs the research deaprtment „Transformations of Political Order: Governance, Values and Peace“ at the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) in Bonn, where she co-cordinates DIE's Africa research and policy advice. Her work focuses on political transformation, the conditions and consequences of social cohesion and international cooperation for an integrated implementation of the SDGs. Based on this research, she adds value to future scenarios for a transformation to sustainability. Her work is published in scientific journals, books and media outlets. Julia translates her academic research into policy advice and has engaged in impact measurement on the effectiveness of international democracy support and state-building. She teaches at the universities of Heidelberg and Duisburg-Essen.
Short description:
Dr. Kaushik Bharati, PhD, MIPHA, FRSPH (London), obtained his PhD in Physiology with specialization in Vaccinology from the University of Calcutta, India in 2001. He carried out his doctoral work at the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, India. He did his Post-doctoral Fellowship from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, specializing in Immunology and Molecular Biology. He was formerly a Scientist at the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India, and a Senior Program Officer at the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad, NCR Delhi, India. He was also a Visiting Professor in the Departments of Physiology and Microbiology at Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, India. His major research areas include Virology, Public Health, and Health Policy. He has published over 90 papers in reputed national and international journals and has also co-authored a book entitled “Basic Concepts in Immunology”. He is currently on the Editorial Board of 16 journals from India, UK, USA, and UAE. He is on the Peer-review Panel of 13 bio-medical journals from India, UK, USA, China, Indonesia and Nigeria. He is also an External Examiner for PhD of the University of Calcutta, India and Lincoln University College, Malaysia. He is a Member of the Indian Public Health Association and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (London). He has received 15 awards for his research work from India, New Zealand, UK, and USA.
Short description:
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology, University of Exeter, UK.
Short description:
I’m Franco-Senegalese. I am currently in my second year of doctoral studies in political science at the University of Ottawa. My research focuses on the comparison of peasant mobilizations against land grabbing in Senegal and Colombia, more specifically against the implementation of special economic zones in these two states. I had the opportunity to be invited by the Centre for Afrodescendant Studies at La Javeriana University in Bogota as part of Master degree. This allowed me to conduct a field research in a humanitarian zone of civil resistance in Colombia.
Short description:
Professor of Gender and Development, Senior Fellow at the National Institute for Policy & Strategic Studies
Short description:
An alumnus of Delhi School of Economics and Pennsylvania State University, S Chandrasekhar is Professor, at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai. He was awarded the Mahalanobis Memorial Medal 2016, by The Indian Econometric Society, for outstanding contributions to the field of quantitative economics. He has worked extensively on the issue of urbanization, worker mobility and internal migration in India. He coordinated the research initiative "Strengthen and Harmonize Research and Action on Migration in the Indian Context" (SHRAMIC). In addition to migration, urbanization and labour market outcomes, his recent work focuses on earnings and income inequality in India.
Short description:
Arindam Banerjee is a co- founder and Partner at Policy and Development Advisory Group (PDAG).
A public policy and communications specialist, he currently advises the Chief Minister - Jharkhand and the Chief Minister's Office- Jharkhand on key welfare policy issues, media outreach and digital communications. He also oversees key research and policy partnerships between PDAG and academic and other public policy organisations.
Prior to PDAG, Arindam read for the Masters in Public Policy at Blavatnik School of Government at University of Oxford. He was a reciepent of UK Govt's Chevening Scholarship. He also worked closely with Nobel Laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo as a policy manager during his stint at J- PAL South Asia across New Delhi, Ranchi and Boston.
Arindam was also one of the 145 Prime Minister's Rural Development Fellows (PMRDF) with the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. As a PMRDF , he worked for more than 3 years to support and advise the district administration of West Midnapore, a high Left Wing Extremism affected district. During this period, he worked closely with both district and the State Government of West Bengal to formulate key community driven governance initiatives in post conflict resolution.
Arindam has also worked as a Political Correspondent with the Indian Express newspaper and has also written for both national and international publications and web portals
Short description:
Soumyadeep Bhaumik is a medical doctor and international public health specialist with a demonstrated history of impactful work in evidence synthesis and knowledge translation which has informed multiple WHO guidelines, national and sub-national policies and often been picked up by influential media houses stimulating debate and discussion around issues. He leads methodological work in India’s only Rapid Evidence Synthesis Unit, which provides on-demand evidence to any public decision maker. He is also experienced in experienced in program evaluation, health policy and systems research on injuries (particularly on snakebite).
Short description:
Zoe Piper has over 20 years’ experience across management consulting, technology, manufacturing and investment. With a focus on innovation and sustainability, Zoe is actively engaged in a broad range of roles and appointments.
Combining her interests in technology and social impact, in 2017 Zoe founded Ethitrade International, a blockchain based provenance platform empowering small enterprises in South-East Asia. In 2009 Zoe also cofounded Ecolour, an Australian based manufacturer of premium quality, non-toxic (zero-VOC) paint. Ecolour is now used by hotel chains, hospitals and leading developers across the country.
Alongside her entrepreneurial ventures, Zoe has also spent the past 7 years working to drive innovation and boost industry productivity. At CSIRO she founded and led IC Global (https://innovationcatalyst.global/), an award winning suite of platforms developed to drive innovation by facilitating expertise discovery, problem solving and data visualization. This involved engaging over 70 partners from industry, research, and government (both domestically and abroad) to collaboratively design and develop the platforms. Zoe was named as a 2020 ACT State Finalist (Public Sector & Academia category) for the Telstra Business Women’s Awards for her work leading IC Global. During her first two and a half years at CSIRO Zoe also served as Data61’s representative on the Canberra Innovation Network (CBRIN) board of directors.
Zoe has shared her knowledge on stage both domestically and abroad in New York (Ecolour), Vietnam (Ethitrade) and Manila (IC Global). She also regularly mentors start-ups and young professionals looking to proactively shape their careers.
Zoe is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (serving on ACT Division Council), and a Fellow of the Institute of Managers and Leaders (formerly chairing the AIM ACT Regional Advisory Committee). She has studied in the USA, Europe, and China, and her qualifications include an MBA, and Bachelor of Economics/Communication. Zoe is currently undertaking a PhD (Public Policy: cross-sector careers) at the ANU.