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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.
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Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology, University of Exeter, UK.
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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.
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Professor of Gender and Development, Senior Fellow at the National Institute for Policy & Strategic Studies
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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.
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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
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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).
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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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Dr. Prakash Kashwan is an educator, author, and scholar, whose work cuts across the fields of climate governance, environmental and climate justice, and international affairs. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Brandeis University. Dr. Kashwan is the current Chair of the Environmental Studies Section (ESS), International Studies Association (ISA), co-founder of the Climate Justice Network, and Editor of the journal Environmental Politics. He is the author of Democracy in the Woods (OUP, 2017) and co-author of Decolonizing Environmentalism (Bloomsbury, 2025).