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I earned my PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria, and I currently work as a lecturer/researcher at the same institution. I was a visiting fellow at Cornell University, USA under the STAARS fellowship programme; I have also served as a research fellow at International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA). My research interests are in the area of food security, poverty, labour markets, and agricultural development.
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I am an assistant professor of Education and International Development at the Department of Child Development and Education, the University of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. My research interests cover a wide range of issues, including global education policies, curriculum change, child-centered pedagogy, reform implementation and the role of teachers. In recent years, my research has focused on non-state actors in education, with a specific focus on non-formal religious education (such as Quran schools, mosque education). At the same time, I worked between 2019 and 2022 as a senior policy advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, at the Department of Social Development, working in the field of education and international development.
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Professor of Hispanic, Cultural and Migration Studies at Queen Mary University of London.
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Dr. Sera Young (www.serayoung.org) is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Health at Northwestern University. Dr. Young has a PhD in International Nutrition from Cornell University and a Master's in Medical Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam. She draws on her training to take a biocultural approach to understanding how mothers, especially in low-resource settings, cope to preserve their health and that of their families. Most recently, she has led efforts to develop the Household Water InSecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale, a cross-culturally valid tool to measure household water insecurity (http://hwise.org). She has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and received funding from NSF, NIH, and UKAID among others. Awards include an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship (2019) and the Margaret Mead Award for her book about pica, Craving Earth.
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Professor of Political Economy, specialising in youth, youth policy, Middle East, comparative
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Marc P. Berenson is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at King’s Russia Institute at King’s College London. Prior to joining King’s in September 2013, Dr. Berenson was serving, since 2007, as a research fellow on the Governance Team at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in Brighton. His projects on governance, public administration, state capacity and state-society relations in Poland, Russia and Ukraine have been empirically, conceptually and methodologically ground-breaking, with a particular (and particularly important) focus on the ways in which citizens’ interactions with the bureaucracy shapes and is shaped by their perceptions of the state and the meaning of their own citizenship. His recent book – Taxes and Trust: From Coercion to Compliance in Poland, Russia and Ukraine, and his articles have appeared in Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Communist Studies, Transition Politics and elsewhere. Previously, Dr. Berenson worked as a research analyst for the American Bar Association, the EastWest Institute, The Carter Center and the Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He also has undertaken several consultancies, for, among others, the World Bank in Russia and the OECD’s Tax and Development Programme. After receiving his BA from Harvard University, Dr. Berenson founded and directed from 1996 to 1998 the "Law in Action" program for Freedom House in Kyiv, Ukraine, before receiving his Ph.D. in Political Science from Princeton University in 2006.
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Dr Kouhi Esfahani is a Teaching Fellow at the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, UK and the author of "Iran's Foreign Policy in the South Caucasus: Relations with Azerbaijan and Armenia". Her special research focus is Iran's politics and foreign relations and the wider research interest is security developments in the Middle East and South Caucasus.
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Dr. R. Shashi Kumar is a Professor and Chairman, Department of Economics, Bangalore University, Bangalore, and Director of the UGC Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, India. His main research interests are in international trade and agricultural economics. He teaches in the areas of economic development, international economics, agri-business, research methodology and economic integration. To address these issues, he employs a mix of theoretical and empirical methods.
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I am Associate Professor in Development and Conflict at Durham University (UK) with 20 years of research and working experience in the Horn of Africa, mostly in Somalia and Kenya. My main research is on violent conflicts and wars, state-dynamics, and international peace and statebuilding. Currently, I focus on the link between violent conflicts, displacement and urbanisation and have finalized a research project that looked into war-induced urbanisation in Somalia from the view-point of displaced people (securityonthemove.co.uk). Another research project uses port cities as example to explore how (international) political dynamics shape infrastructural developments, and how these developments shape cities and are experienced by its residents. All my research projects explore global-local encounters and the way in which global processes are realized and experienced in particular contexts and settings and shape live-worlds of people.
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Dr Mukdarut Bangpan is an experienced researcher with particular interests in social interventions, gender equality, gender analysis, livelihoods and well-being of children and women in developing countries, methodological development of research synthesis, and research impact. Her recent research focuses on access to health and education for migrants, sexual health decisions of young women, and mental health and psychological well-being of populations affected by humanitarian crises. She works with international partners building capacity in evidence synthesis with policy and academics in South East Asia region. She is a co- author of a practical guide to conduct rapid reviews to support decisions in health systems. She leads and conducts a wide range of systematic reviews including mixed-methods reviews, meta-analysis, realist review, evidence gap map, rapid evidence assessment, qualitative synthesis.