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I am a PhD researcher affiliated with the United Nations University – CRIS, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University (Belgium), focusing on multistakeholderism in international trade governance. A particular area of interest to me is inclusion and exclusion of diverse interest groups in multistakeholder mechanisms established in the framework of the European Union's free trade agreements.
Previously, I worked as a research fellow at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs, a lecturer at the Riga Stradins University, and a project manager and advisor for the European Movement – Latvia where I am currently a board member. I also served as expert for three opinions of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). My education includes Master's degree in International Relations (with distinction) and Bachelor's degree in Political Sciences (International Relations – European Studies, with distinction), both from Rīga Stradiņš University. In 2015-2016, I was a Fulbright Visiting PhD Student Researcher at the George Mason University (Washington, DC metropolitan area).
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Fengshi Wu is Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations at the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. She is a world leading scholar in environmental politics, state-society relations, and global governance with the empirical focus on China and Asia. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard-Yenching Institute (2008-2009) and a Graduate Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences (2004). Currently, A/Prof. Wu is the inaugural Series Editor of Environment and Society in Asia, Amsterdam University Press, and serves on the Board of the International Society for Third-Sector Research.
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Giorgos Gouzoulis is an Associate Professor in HRM at Queen Mary, University of London. Giorgos's research looks at how globalisation and financialisation affect wage bargaining, trade unions, strikes, and atypical employment.
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Senior Lecturer at University of Canberra. Conducts philosophical investigations (mostly pragmatic of late) into the meanings of democracy (there are over 3,700 of them in the English language). Non-human democracy and non-Western democracy are particular interests.
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Saeed Jafari is a science communicator and a science journalist. He has completed his studies in linguistics at the University of Kurdistan. He serves as Director of Intl. and Science Communication in the Saros Science Popularization Team. For more than nine years, Saeed has led astronomy communication, outreach and education for many organisations and institutions, and currently researches public understanding of science in media, technology and society. Saeed is also a lecturer of linguistics at the University of Kurdistan and editor-in-chief of UoK's Linguverse journal.
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Founder & Inaugural Chair in Transgender Studies, University of Victoria, Canada (World's first & only one).
Founder & Academic Director, The Transgender Archives, University of Victoria, Canada (World's largest).
Founder & Host, Moving Trans History Forward Conferences, Victoria, Canada (International & interdisciplinary, Community & Academic).
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Joyce Wu is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Sciences. She is also a Fulbright Senior Scholar, Deputy Editor of Development in Practice and Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University. Joyce has a diverse history of interdisciplinary research and practitioner experiences. Her research includes sexual and gendered violence in conflict and post-conflict situations, intersectionality and inequality, gender mainstreaming, sustainable development, climate change, and equity and diversity in the higher education. Prior to academic life, Joyce has worked in the Australian Government and the United Nations on gender and development issues, including the The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women. She has worked with CSIRO as a Research Fellow to integrate gender and social considerations into a water resource management programme in South Asia. Joyce was also part of the Australian Government funded research, Individual Deprivation Measure, which is a multidimensional poverty measure with a gender-sensitive analysis and focus.
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Stephen Duckett is Director of the Health Program at Melbourne (Australia-based think tank, Grattan Institute. He has a reputation for creativity, evidence-based innovation, and reform in areas ranging from the introduction of activity-based funding for hospitals, to new systems of accountability for the safety of hospital care. An economist, he is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
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Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada. I'm interested in the social context of education for children in the global South
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Professor Jo-Ansie van Wyk lectures International Politics at the University of South Africa (Unisa), Pretoria, South Africa. She has completed a D Phil (International Relations) on South Africa’s post-apartheid nuclear diplomacy, and has published on, amongst others, nuclear diplomacy, South Africa’s nuclear diplomacy, disarmament, non-proliferation, the IAEA, nuclear medicine and the Pelindaba Treaty. She is Fulbright Alumna (University of Delaware, Newark, United States of America) and a Member of the South African Academy for Science and Art. She has been a guest lecturer at the Universities of Johannesburg and Pretoria, and the South African National Intelligence Academy, the South African National Defence College, the South African National War College, and the South African Diplomatic Academy. She has completed consultancies for the World Bank, UNESCO, the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), the South African Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), and Consultancy Africa Intelligence (CAI). From June 2010 until October 2014, she served on the South African Minister of Trade and Industry’s South African Council for Space Affairs (SACSA). She is a recipient of inter alia, the University of South Africa Women Developing Researcher Award (2012), Academic Honorary Colours (University of Pretoria, 2013), the Bradlow Fellowship of the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA, 2014), and Unisa’s Leadership in Research Women Award (2014). She is rated as a C3 researcher by the South African National Research Foundation (NRF), and has received research and travel grants from a number of South African and international institutions.