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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.
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Professor of International Relations, School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University. My research focuses on issues of international ethics and international order. I have a particular interest in military ethics and technological innovation, including the uses of drones and the potential for lethal autonomous weapons. I am also interested in the ethical challenges in world politics arising from the diversity of human ethical perspectives and practices.
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Prakash Kashwan is an interdisciplinary social scientist, with expertise in global climate governance, environmental and climate justice, global conservation policy, and international development. Currently he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Co-Director of the Research Program on Economic and Social Rights, Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs. Prakash is a member of the global expert group for Scoping of Transformative Change Assessment by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), a Senior Research Fellow of the Earth System Governance (ESG) Project, and an Editor at the journal Environmental Politics. He is the author of Democracy in the Woods: Environmental Conservation and Social Justice in India, Tanzania, and Mexico (Oxford University Press, 2017), and of forthcoming works on decolonizing environmentalism and climate justice (contracted with Oxford University Press).
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I am Assistant Clinical Professor of Urban Planning and Public Service and Director of the Urban Planning program at NYU Wagner. My research and practice centers on the political economy of disasters, primarily in small island developing states. I recently won the 2021-2022 Outstanding Decentralization Paper Award for Latin America and the Caribbean recognizing my novel in-depth analysis of Haiti's institutional challenges over the past three decades.
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Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at University. Economist and Data Scientist with exceptional writing skills and 9 years of applied research experience. Demonstrated expertise in development economics, macroeconomics, econometrics. My primary areas of research are Econometrics and Statistics, Macroeconometrics, Development Economics, Climate change, and Financial Economics. I am also interested in applying Machine Learning/Text Analysis and Artificial Intelligence techniques for Labor Market, Housing Markets, Monetary Policy, Real Estate Finance, Household Finance, Financial Studies, and Public Policies.
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Chief of Education in UNICEF Cameroon, also focal point for UN country team for disabilities and inclusion
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I am a social anthropologist who investigates anthropological and social theory from its margins by paying attention to the experience of peasants and other groups of poor people in India. I employ anthropology’s traditional emphasis on a deep understanding of a place or people as a vantage point from which to critique and expand received ideas in a social theory. I have been conducting a rigorous ethnographic research in the Himalayan borderlands since 1994 where I have combined cultural and sociological analyses of institutions and social life to respond to questions raised by postcolonial theory. I am interested in the themes of cultural politics of development and the postcolonial state in the inclusive policy
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I am a Research Fellow at the Berlin Social Science Center and PhD candidate. My research interests and expertise include international law and policy on armed conflict, modelling violent political mobilisation, and behaviour of non-state armed actors. I have professional experience in policy-oriented research, legal implementation and conflict resolution in non-governmental organisations and indepedent bodies in the UK and Middle East.
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Craig Forrest is a Professor in the Law School, University of Queensland, teaching and undertaking research in the areas of maritime law and cultural heritage law, with a special interest in underwater cultural heritage. Professor Forrest was a member of the South African delegation to UNESCO to negotiate the 2001 Underwater Cultural Heritage Convention, and has acted as an advisor to UNESCO regional cultural meetings in 2009 (Solomon Islands), 2012 (Cambodia), 2013 (St.Kitts and Nevis) and 2017 (Indonesia). He helped to draft the Model Law for the implementation of the UCH Convention. He was recently engaged in a UNESCO project, with Dr Bill Jeffery (University of Guam) on the protection on underwater cultural heritage in Micronesia. Professor Forrest has held visiting research and teaching position at Cambridge University, National University of South Korea, City University of Hong Kong, Dalhousie University Canada and University of Nottingham (the latter as a Universitas 21 Fellow). Before turning to the law, Professor Forrest served as a naval officer in the South African Navy.
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Journalist | Economist | Author