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Sociologist by training, teaching at the Univ of British Columbia's School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. Focused on Japan and Mongolia in terms of geography, and education, mining, democratization in terms of substantive policy areas. Lots of past consulting work related to many different aspects of economic, political and social developments in contemporary Mongolia. See "Mongolia Focus" blog for samples of analyses.
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Ioana Marinescu is an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She studies the labor market to craft policies that can enhance employment, productivity, and economic security. To make an informed policy decision, it is crucial to determine the costs and benefits of policies. Her research expertise includes wage determination and monopsony power, antitrust law for the labor market, the universal basic income, unemployment insurance, the minimum wage, and employment contracts. Her research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Labor Economics, the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, and the Journal of Public Economics. She testified for policy makers, including Congress and the Federal Trade Commission. Her research has been cited in many media outlets including the New York Times, CNN, and the Wall Street Journal.
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UNESCO Chair in inclusive, good quality education for all
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Dr. Andreas Freytag is Professor of Economics at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (http://www.wipo.uni-jena.de/JASG.html) and Honorary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch. He is also Director of Tutwa Europe (www.tutwaconsulting.com), member of the CESifo Research network, a STIAS Fellow, a Senior Fellow at Kings College’s DAFM, Senior Research Fellow at ECIPE, Brussels, and a Senior Research Associate at SAIIA, Johannesburg; he is associated to the G8 Research Group at the University of Toronto.
Freytag has obtained his diploma from the University of Kiel, his doctorate as well his Habilitation from the University of Cologne. He has published a number of books and articles in first-class peer-reviewed journals on economic policy, international trade policy, development economics and international policy coordination. He contributes to blogs and has a weekly column on wiwo-online, a German magazine (http://www.wiwo.de/themen/Freytags-Frage).
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I am an empirical scholar specialising in all aspects of Digital Law and Regulation. I research the intersections between law, society and disruptive as well as innovative digital technologies like machine learning, social media, cloud computing and Internet of Things. I have substantial experience in the legal and regulatory issues raised by such ecosystems including data protection, privacy, freedom of expression, defamation and cyber-crime.
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Dr Arun Sukumar is an Associate Professor at the International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship, Coventry University. He is an active researcher and his principal research interests are in the field of social entrepreneurship and transformational enterprises. Arun has worked extensively with partners in UK and in in Vietnam, Thailand, India, Malaysia and Africa to examine SE start-up ecosystems. He is also involved in the development of trans-national education programs aimed at undergraduate, masters and doctoral students. He co-ordinates the internationalisation efforts of the centre for transformational entrepreneurship and has been involved in the approval, design and delivery of trans-national doctoral degree programs currently delivered in Ghana and Vietnam. He has delivered workshops, seminars and knowledge exchange programs on internationalisation of entrepreneurship education and in development and delivery of blended teaching programs to international audience.
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Dr. Andrea Calderaro is the director of the Centre for Internet and Global Politics, a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Relations/School of Law and Politics, and a member of the Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Analytics at Cardiff University. He holds his PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute. His research and teaching centres on the Internet and International Affairs, with a particular focus on transnational governance of the cyber domain, cybersecurity, cyber capacity building, cyber diplomacy, the Digital divide, and the role of the EU in the global internet policy debate. He has conducted research and supported cyber capacity building initiatives in Africa, Asia, Middle East, Central America, and in EU institutions.
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Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Bergamo, Italy:
- Private and public stakeholders consultancy; Academic researcher and Lecturer;
- EU projects Principal investigator;
- Fields of expertise: E-marketing in Tourism and Leisure; Visitor Attractions Marketing and Management; Misinformation issues; Ethics and Technology
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Research Fellow, United Kingdom
Leona has extensive experience as an equalities and social justice professional in UK and international public and charity sectors and is an early career academic researcher in the fields of ‘risk’, ‘childhood radicalisation’ (UK), 'safeguarding’ (UK and International), ‘child labour’ and ‘modern slavery’ (chocolate and garment sectors of Bangladesh, Myanmar, Dominican Republic & Ghana), and 'racialisation'.
She is currently developing exciting, innovative interdisciplinary approaches to avoiding harm in the design and delivery of research and knowledge production in this field, through creating anti-colonial methods and methodological approaches which centre minoritised communities as Derby Research Fellow for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Theme of 'Slavery & Unfree Labour' at University of Liverpool.
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I'm currently student , doing Masters in public policy at Indian institute of Technology, Bombay. I'm also working as a Agriculture officer in Maharashtra. I did Bsc. Agriculture and Masters in Public Services.