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Neeraj Kumar Mehra is Olympism Researcher and SDP Practitioner who is working as Assistant Professor-Physical Education with the Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, University of Delhi as Guest Faculty in India. His area of interest includes Olympism, Olympic and Paralympic Movement, Olympic and Paralympic Education, Olympic and Paralympic Values, Quality Physical Education Policy, Inclusive Physical Education, Mobilisation of UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030 through Sports, Intangible Cultural Heritage through Sports, Global Active Cities and closely associated with various national and international stakeholders of related areas.
Mr Mehra has worked as a Research Officer with Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and Assistant Private Secretary. He has contributed to various government schemes like Elite Athletes Identification Committee, Target Olympic Podium (TOP), National Sports Development Fund (NSDF), Corporate Social Responsibility in Sports, Office of Minister of Youth Affairs & Sports, Matters related to National Youth Advisory Council, International Cooperation Cell (IC), Human Resource Development in Sports (HRDS), National Sports University (NSU), National Centre for Sports Science and Research (NCSS&R), National Centre for Sports Coaching (NCSC), Matters related to Cabinet Communications, Right to Information regarding NSU, NCSS&R, NCSC, Khelo India School Games, Cash Awards to Medal Winners of Asian Games, Out of Pocket Allowance to Athletes (OPA), DBT, PFMS etc.
Mr. Neeraj Kumar Mehra has also worked with Union Minister of Food Processing Industries, Government of India in her personal establishment as Assistant Private Secretary and handled various bureaucratic and political matters.
He has worked as Lecturer with the State Council of Educational Research and Training, New Delhi and conducted workshops on Health and Physical Education and related areas.
Mr.Mehra was Project Officer with Organising Committee Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010 where he was involved with research, publications and training of Elementary Teachers Trainees and other general teachers. His other working experience includes tenure as a Teacher at school, collages, and university levels.
He is a graduate in physical education, health education and sports sciences from Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, University of Delhi and a postgraduate in physical education from the Department of Physical Education, Kurukshetra University in India.
Neeraj Kumar Mehra is the first candidate from India in the Master Degree Programme ‘Olympic Studies, Olympic Education, Management and Organisation of Olympic Events organised by International Olympic Academy and Department of Sports Organisation and Management, Faculty of Human Movement and Life Sciences University of Peloponnese in collaboration with International Olympic Academy, Ancient Olympia, Athens, Greece.
His international academic contribution is documented in the Imagine Peace Youth Camp, Olympia Praxis Summer Programme, International Session for International Olympic Academy Participants Association, International Session for Directors of National Olympic Academies. He has co-authored 8 books, 06 Research Papers, 01 Article, 03 Abstracts. He has received various international fellowships like John. S. Latsis Fellowship in 2010, Olympia Alliance Fellowship in 2013, Olympic Solidarity Fellowship in 2014, International Olympic Truce Centre Fellowship in 2014. He has widely travelled worldwide for professional assignments such as Greece, Nepal, South Africa Latvia & USA, Korea & UK. He has been invited 15 times as Resource Person/Expert and has given more than 20 Presentations. He is a member of 7 National Committees and 02 Academic Projects, including the Swastha Bachhe Swastha (SBSB) Bharat project of KVS, launched by the Minister of Human Resource Development. He was Internship Abroad Supervisor for Master Level student from France.
His other volunteer designations are given below:
Olympism and Social Justice
He is Chief Executive Officer of Dr B.R. Ambedkar Sports Foundation (An Organisation in Special Consultative Status with UN ECOSOC Since 2021). He is Country Representative of International Olympic Academy Participants Association-India. He was also elected Executive Council Member of the International Olympic Academy Participants Association for 2019-2021.
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Mr. Mehra is a council member with the International Traditional Sports and Games Association (ITSGA), Ad-hoc committee member of the Asian Traditional Sports and Games Association and Board member of the Traditional Sports and Games Association (TSG-India)
UN SDG 2030 Quality Physical Education Policy/Inclusive Physical Education
He is the Founder of the National Council of Sports Sciences and Physical Education (NCSPE).
Others
He is PR and Press Officer with World Martial Arts Committee (WMAGC).
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I have more than ten years of experiences in teaching university students and working as a researcher in Southeast Asia and Europe. Currently, I am a Research Fellow at Health Economics Research Unit (HERU), University of Aberdeen, UK. My research interests are impact evaluation and applied microeconomics with focuses on labour market, education, health outcomes and health behaviours, workforce and organization of cares as well as other social policies in both developed and developing countries. So I am keen to contribute in projects with policy implications in any these topics through meeting, exchanging ideas and collaborating with other researchers and stake holders.
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Francisco Meneses in an applied microeconomist that works in areas such as labor economics, economics of education and inequality and poverty. He received his Bachelor’s with distinction in Business Administration and Economic sand his Diploma in Applied Macroeconomics with distinction from the Catholic University of Chile. He received his Master’s in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and his Master’s in Public Administration and International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Francisco worked as an economist for the Central Bank of Chile, UNESCO, and World Bank, doing research on policy, education, and inequality in Chile, Ukraine, and Moldova. He has also been part of the governing board of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) of the OECD, and the Director of Research of the Ministry of Education of Chile. He is finishing his PhD in Public Policy at the Duke University.
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Cameran Ashraf is an assistant professor at the School of Public Policy, Central European University, a human rights defender, and co-founder of international human rights and technology organization AccessNow. In recognition of his work, the European Parliament selected AccessNow as a finalist for the 2010 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the European Union's highest human rights honor.
In 2009 he assembled a team providing digital security to the threatened activists, journalists, and vital leadership websites during Iran's Green Movement, "the first major world event broadcast worldwide almost entirely via social media". Cameran and his team defended critical Green Movement websites from state-sponsored attacks, provided personal communications security for hundreds of vulnerable in-country activists and journalists, distributed proxy servers used by over 40,000 Iranians daily, facilitated more than 3 million protest video downloads from inside Iran, and played a key role in connecting millions worldwide to the peaceful protests. This work led Cameran to co-found AccessNow, one of the world's largest international human rights organizations dedicated to defending and extending the digital rights of users at risk.
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Cameran continues to work for human dignity and human rights through teaching, research, and meaningful engagement with students. He recently served as Deputy Director of the Open Society Foundations Internship for Rights and Governance, helping to prepare the next generation of human rights defenders. In 2015, he completed his Ph.D. at UCLA on the geopolitics of Internet censorship and cyberwar.
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Dr Johanna Koehler is Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Governance in the Department of Environmental Policy Analysis at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research interests include sustainable water services and net-zero energy transitions. She investigates how risks and responsibilities can be re-conceptualised and re-allocated in pluralist governance arrangements between the state, market, and communities. To date, she has focused on the interplay of water risks and institutional change as well as new professional water service delivery models emerging across sub-Saharan Africa. Theoretically, her work advances institutional theory of risk; methodologically, she uses qualitative and quantitative methods, including experiments, to understand social and institutional behaviours with regard to environmental governance, working with governments, the private sector, and end users. Johanna is also Honorary Research Associate at the School of Geography and the Environment and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford.
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I am a physician epidemiologist and an Assistant professor in the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo. My research interests focus on syndemics of infectious diseases like HIV, hepatitis B and C, tuberculosis and sexually transmitted infections. My research aims to evaluate the determinants of syndemics, extend the syndemic framework to non-communicable diseases and cancers, and design and evaluate prevention strategies to address syndemics. My other areas of interest include the development and application of methods for analysis of big data, global health, and spatial epidemiologic methods and their application to public health practice. In addition to the above, I have worked internationally in academia and the development sector (World Health Organization and UNICEF).
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Aaron Francis is a doctoral student in Global Governance at the University of Waterloo, a multidisciplinary artist and a curator. In the past year, Aaron has exhibited works from his Vintage Black Canada initiative at the BAND Gallery Toronto, the Gladstone Hotel Toronto, and the Contact Photography Festival as well at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). The former chair of the City of Kitchener’s Arts and culture advisory committee, most recently in June 2020 Aaron co-organized and marshaled the Black Lives Matter Solidarity March that saw an estimated 30,000 attendees in his hometown of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
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Katie Hirono is a PhD candidate in the Global Public Health Unit at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the role of participatory processes, such as citizens’ juries and health impact assessment, for improving policymaking and health equity. Katie also has a long-standing record of helping to support underserved communities. She served on the board of directors for a health clinic in Maryland that serviced undocumented Latino populations, and volunteered as a Spanish medical translator at a free health clinic in Virginia. She has worked as a consultant to the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization in the department of Gender, Diversity and Human Rights.
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I am a PhD canditate at Global Governance Deparment. I am holding a Master of LLM with 7 years of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) experience in working with refugees, specifically in providing legal and psychosocial support to sexual and gender based violence survivors, unaccompanied and separated children, and children exposed to child marriage and child labour. I have a project and training expertise on International Refugee Law, International Human Rights Law and Refugee Protection.
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Aviva Silburt is a PhD Candidate at the University of Waterloo's Balsillie School of International Affairs researching the complex linkages between mining conflicts and broader peacebuilding challenges in Guatemala. Aviva has professional experience in public policy and peacebuilding, and has worked in various capacities with the Government of Canada, UN Women Canada, and grassroots NGOs in Rwanda, Bosnia, and the Philippines. She is currently a policy advisor for the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise to investigate human rights abuses involving Canadian companies operating abroad.