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Yvonne Su is an Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Refugee and Diaspora Studies in the Department of Equity Studies in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. She is a member of the Centre for Refugee Studies and the York Centre for Asian Research.
Yvonne is a specialist on forced migration, climate change-induced displacement, migrant remittances, social capital, global migration governance, humanitarian assistance and post-disaster recovery. She holds a PhD in Political Science and International Development from the University of Guelph and a Masters in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford.
Broadly, her research interests focus on migration and development, refugee protection and disaster risk reduction. Her current research examines South-South humanitarian responses in the context of forced migration using the case study of Venezuelan LGBTQI+ asylum seekers in Brazil. Previously, Yvonne spent 7 months in the Philippines researching the role of migrant remittances in post-disaster recovery after Typhoon Haiyan.
Yvonne’s work has been supported by grants and fellowships from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Doctoral Research Award, Canadian Heritage, the Government of Ontario and the Mackenzie King Scholarship Trust. She is also the recipient of over 25 national and international awards and scholarships including the Young Woman of Distinction Award and the University of Guelph’s Young Alumni Award.
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Mario Mariniello is Senior Fellow at Bruegel, the Brussels-based think-tank. He leads Bruegel’s project on the “Future of Work and Inclusive Growth” which closely analyses the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the nature, quantity and quality of work, welfare systems and inclusive growth at large. In particular, the role of technology in reshaping society when subject to extreme stress (i.e. during a pandemic).
Before joining Bruegel, Mario was Digital Adviser at the European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC), a European Commission in-house think-tank that operated under the authority of President Jean-Claude Juncker. The EPSC provided the President and the College of Commissioners with strategic, evidence-based analysis and forward-looking policy advice. In his capacity of Digital Adviser, Mario led the EPSC’s work on Digital Single Market issues.
Mario has also previously been a Bruegel Fellow focusing on “Competition Policy and Regulation”. From 2007 to 2012, Mario was a member of the Chief Economist Team at DG-Competition, European Commission. During that time, he developed the economic analysis of a number of topical antitrust and merger cases in the technological and transport sectors.
Mario holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Organization from the European University Institute of Fiesole (Florence) and a M.Sc. in Economics from CORIPE (Turin). He currently teaches a course in Digital Economy at the College of Europe and has previously taught a course in European Economic Integration for Master students at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
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I am a professor in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. I hold a DPhil/PhD in International Relations from the University of Oxford. My research focuses on international institutions and law, human rights, and international criminal justice. I have experience providing policy advice to governments, international organizations, and NGOs. For further details, please see my website: www.nicoledesilva.com.
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Kun Zhao is a Research Fellow at BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash University. She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne where she looked at personality traits (politeness, compassion, honesty-humility) and prosocial behaviour using paradigms from experimental economics. Her research interests lie in the areas of behaviour change, personality and individual differences, prosocial behaviour, and prejudice. She works with government and industry organisations on how to change behaviour for a more sustainable, inclusive, and healthier society.
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Dr Davies' research interest is in transport policy and regulation. He looks to use his knowledge of emerging technology trajectories to support the development of policy and regulatory actions that optimise, adapt or radically transform the mobility system in order to minimise the negative impacts of road transport. It is multi-disciplinary, linking engineering, social sciences and business.
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Feminist researcher in subjects including gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, asylum, migration, equality and human rights.
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Dr Roland Pongou is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa and a Visiting Scientist at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His primary research interests lie at the intersection of political economy, health human capital, and economic development. His recent work examines how institutions and technology affect societies. His research has broad policy implications for the design of inclusive, fair and efficient social and economic systems. He is a member of the American Economic Association, the Canadian Economic Association, the Econometric Society, the National Economic Association, the African Finance and Economic Association, the Population Association of America, and the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.
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I'm a researcher and community organiser based at the Sydney Policy Lab. For a decade I founded and ran the Sydney Alliance (which brings diverse communities together across Sydney). I also host a podcast that talks about inclusion and social change called ChangeMakers Podcast.
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Paul Makdissi is a Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa since 2007. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality. Previously he has held positions at the Université de Sherbrooke (Canada) and at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands). His main areas of research are socioeconomic health inequality measurement, the distributive impact of taxation and public pricing, and income inequality measurement.
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Associate professor in social policy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Specialized in population ageing, work, retirement, and research methods.