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Mirko (PhD, Sydney; MPhil, Edinburgh; MSc and BA, Milan) is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science and Head of the Human Machine Interaction Lab at Innopolis University. He is a Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (2022-), a Honorary Member of the Lab for Industrializing Software Production (LIPS) in the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering at Innopolis University (2021-), an Expert Member of the UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab (2021-), and Contributing Member of the Astana Club (2022-).
He was a Member of Task Force 1 on Global Health and Covid 19, at G20, 2021, a Senior Research Fellow (2021-2018) at Saint Petersburg State University, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Innopolis University (2022-2020) and at Nazarbayev University (2020-2019), a Honorary Research Fellow (2019-2021) and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2016) in the Department of Philosophy at King's College London , and a visiting scholar (2017) at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow. He was also visiting fellow at Aarhus University, and at Ruhr University Bochum.
Over his career, A/Prof Farina received approximately USD1 Million in research funding. A/Prof Farina has over 60 peer-reviewed publications with many articles in top-tier (Q1) journals (in both philosophy and computer science) and several chapters in prestigious edited collections (e.g. Oxford University Press, MIT Press, Routledge, Springer Nature). During his career A/Prof Farina delivered more than 75 talks at international conferences. A/Prof Farina is currently co-editing two books on expertise (one with Duncan Pritchard and Andrea Lavazza)- invited by- Oxford University Press; the second for Routledge. He is also co-editing two Special Issues on distributed cognition for Cognition, Technology & Work and Frontiers in Psychology
Personal Webpage: https://mirkofarina.weebly.com/
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Lubna Yusuf is an author, lawyer and a noted documentary filmmaker based in Mumbai, India. She is the Founder of La Legal and CEO, Co-Founder of FishEyeBox Innovation Lab.
She is the Co-Author of The AI Book on Fintech published by Wiley Publications. Purpose of Flowers, a bestseller Haiku book, is her first book of Poetry and Illustrations. She read creative writing at Oxford University. Her articles on AI, Law, privacy & ethics in Deep tech are published in corporate magazines and legal journals.
She is a visiting lecturer of IPR and media laws at NMIMS School of Design. She is also a Mentor of Change for Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog, Government of India.
She is the recipient of the Legal Writer’s Award 2019 by Legal Service India for her journal on Film and Media laws. She was the Finalist for the Women-in-Tech Awards at WTF Chicago, in Intelligence and Automation for her role as design strategist & legal tech expert for India's first Autonomous Car System. In July 2020 she has been nominated for ‘Women in AI Leadership Awards’, at Venture Beat Transform 2020 in the Women In AI Entrepreneur segment.
She had worked as an assistant director in the feature film Dedh Ishqiya. Her debut documentary film Maida (White Flour) is shot across a span of eight years and is based on social issues of dowry, child marriage and girl child education in rural India. It premiered at the Prestigious International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) in June 2019. The UK premier was at We The Peoples Film Festival, the Human Rights Documentary festival of United Nations Association( UNA-UK). It has travelled to 20 international film festivals so far.
She lives in Mumbai, India.
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My name is Jasper Mangwana the chairperson and founder of Zimbabwe Youth in SDGs(ZYSDG) an organization that works in promoting active youth participation in the implementation of the global goals. ZYSDG is the conveyor of the Zimbabwe National Youth SDGs Summit and has over 165 community chapters and Interest Groups in Zimbabwe.
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Ana Paula Barreto (she/hers) is the Director of Transnational Birth Equity at the National Birth Equity Collaborative. She has a master's of Arts in International affairs and is a fellow of the United Nations Fellowship Program for People of African descent. Ana is a researcher on global health, race and inequalities with a special focus on women and girls.
Ana has more than fifteen years of experience as a human rights professional, working in several counties of the Americas and Africa, doing innovative work on global health and reproductive justice. In 2018, she developed a project analyzing the intersection between economic empowerment and health outcomes of women and children in Ethiopia as well as the first “Black Brazilian Film Festival” in the African continent.
She is also the co-founder of Projeto 111, a project that teaches young people in the favelas of Brazil how to use media tools to tell their own stories and disrupt police brutality through storytelling.
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He has obtained his PhD degree in River Restoration and Management at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon. Dr. Kuriqi has obtained a five-year integrated diploma – M.Sc. Degree in Hydrotechnical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Tiran in 2008. He has also received an M.Sc. Degree in civil engineering, majoring in water resources and hydraulics from Epoka University and Grenoble Institute of Technology. He is the author of seven journal papers published in ISI journals and seven scientific communications presented in an international congress. He is a reviewer for 60 international journals, so far has acted as a reviewer for more than 450 papers, and one Marie Curie research proposal call.
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Andy Newton is an Associate Professor in Policing and Criminology at Nottingham Trent University, NTU (UK). His research interests focus on the intersection of crime, people and space. More specifically he is interested in crime and policing as it relates to: transport, technology, intelligent mobility and crime; acquisitive crime; policy analysis and evaluation, problem solving and evidence based policing, data science, crime analysis and GIS; situational crime prevention; offender mobility, and mixed methods research. He is a member of the Strategic Board of the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire's Violence Reduction Unit (NNVRU) and the Executive Group of the Nottinghamshire Crime and Drugs Partnership (CDP).
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Dr Edwin Isotu Edeh is a seasoned United Nation's Global Environmental Health Specialist, Keynote Speaker and transformational Leader.
Dr. Edwin Isotu Edeh coordinates Public Health and Environment (PHE) Programme of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Nigeria. He is a dynamic global environmental health Specialist, Keynote Speaker and transformational leader with 14 years of technical and strategic levels experience spanning across public sector, industries and humanitarian spheres.
Isotu is an award-winning author of a classic 426 page book: Environmental Health: Understanding Current Issues and Solutions of the 21st Century (2016). He led the 3rd Cycle implementation of United Nations Global Analysis and Assessment on Sanitation and Drinking Water (GLASS) Initiative in Nigerian 36 states (2018), health sector (WHO/FMOH) assessments and National Action Plan activities on Artisanal Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) for implementation Minimata Convention on Mercury, and 1st multisectoral National Environmental Response to Lassa Fever (LF) control in Nigeria (WHO, NCDC, FMENV, FMARD) in 2019, amongst others.
He provides high-level leadership, strategy and capacity development on environment and sustainability to support One-Health Agenda for global health security. He holds a Global Health and Humanitarianism certification from the University of Manchester, PhD Environmental Management and Control – University of Nigeria, MSc Environmental Management - University of Port Harcourt and under-graduate studies in Environmental Health Technology, Rivers State College of Health Science and Technology, Port Harcourt.
Edwin Isotu is open-minded, stands out in integrity, and has an excellent touch to his project and works. He is good team player with high energy to deliver results and make things work.
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I have completed my Doctor of Philosophy in Commerce interested in the areas of financial inclusion, socio-economic development of people belonging to various classes, Research on Policy oriented issues and contribution to up-liftment of Financial Development ...
Education : M.Com., M.Phil, Ph.D., Post Doc
Experience : 3 Years in Teaching &
7 Years in Research
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Recognition : a. Copyrights was awarded by the Government of India,
New Delhi for the Research Work tiled EIBIFEF- Trade Performance Index for Special Economic Zones (SEZs).
b. University Grants Commission has awarded Post Doctoral Fellowship under the Scheme of Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Post Doctoral Fellowship in Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Representing Open Society Foundations' Caribbean strategy with focus on climate justice, economic justice and rights & gender
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Senior Research Fellow in the Equity and Social Policy Programme at Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London. My expertise is in quantitative approaches to identifying groups that remain persistently marginalised from development processes. Areas of current research include assessing policies, programs and their impact on such groups through SDGs and other development initiatives.
Previously at Brookings Institution (Global Economy and Development Program), the World Bank (Poverty and Equity Global Practice), and University of Maryland (School of Public Policy).