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Peter Emmanuel Cookey has spent over 25 years in the practice and study of water and sanitation management in developing countries at various levels in the public and private sectors, and 18 years teaching core sanitation and environmental health (students and workers) and conducting research, particularly on governance, technology, public health in the cities and coastal areas of the Niger Delta, Nigeria and southern Thailand. He initiated, organized and manage the EarthWatch Conference on Water and Sanitation and the Nigerian Water and Sanitation Forum from 2002 – 2013 when he proceeded for further studies abroad. In 2007-2009, he was a member of the National Technical Committee that developed national Environmental Management System (TC-EMS) for the Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON). From 2007 – 2010, he served as Secretary, Technical Committee of the Iriebe Master Plan Development for Rivers State Government, Rivers State Government, Nigeria and the Sector Leader for Water Resources, Sanitation and Waste Management. During this time, he was also a member of the Greater Port Harcourt Development Master Plan Technical Committee and served as Secretary of the Sub-committees on Water Resources and Waste Management. In addition (2007-2011), he was the Steering Committee Member representing Anglophone African Countries, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), administered, Geneva and from 2012-2015 he was re-elected to represent Middle, Northern and West African Countries; and also a pioneer member of the International Standard Development Committee (ISDC) of the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) that developed the global water stewardship standard. From 2009-2012, Peter facilitated and co-chaired the Port Harcourt Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Reforms and the Rivers State Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Policy and Legislation with the Rivers State Ministry of Water Resources and Rural Development, Nigeria.
Peter obtained a bachelor in environmental health from the Rivers State College of Health Science and Technology, a higher diploma in physiology and pharmacology and a postgraduate diploma in environmental microbiology from the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. In 2003, he got an MSc in environmental management from the Imo State, Nigeria and a double Master of Science degree from the IHE, Delft, Netherlands (Environmental Science with specialization in Environmental Technology for Sustainable Development) and the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand (Environmental Engineering Management); which led to a PhD in environmental management (2013-2015) in the Prince of Songkla University, Thailand. In 2009, he obtained a Certificate (Governance in Urban Sanitation), United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). During 2015-2018, he was a postdoc researcher at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand where he worked with Professors Polprasert and Koottatep on the revision of the fourth edition of the IWA published book ‘Organic Waste Recycling, Treatment, Management and Sustainability’ and also co-authored with them the upcoming IWA book ‘Regenerative Sanitation: New Paradigm for Sanitation 4.0’. Peter research interests include lake basin governance and management, public health risks assessment on onsite (decentralized) sanitation, sanitation governance, sanitation for the base-of-the-pyramid and hard-to-reach-areas, etc. He is a recognized reviewer for over 12 journals on Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, MDPI, etc.
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Professor in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds (UK), specializing in Disability Policy. Scientific Director of the European Commission's Academic Network of European Disability experts (ANED) (2008-2019). Head of the School of Sociology and Social Policy (2011-2014), and Pro-dean for Research in the Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (2004-2007). Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
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Researcher at the Inclusive Growth Analysis Unit, University of Manchester
Interested in social and economic inequalities, labour market disadvantage, in-work progression, low wage labour markets
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PhD Candidate at the University of Edinburgh on Politics and International Relations. His research project focuses on Mexico's foreign policy. He has a bachelor degree in International Relations at Tec de Monterrey, a Master degreee in International Relations at the University of Bristol and a certificate on studies at the US-Mexican border from the Colegio de la Frontera Norte. He worked as a lecturer at Tecnologico de Monterrey and as part of a consulting team for the Inter-American Development Bank.
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Darrick's research and teaching lie in the broad area of environmental politics and governance. He is particularly focused on energy policy, both at domestic and international/global scales. Much of his research examines the public as a non-state actor in environmental and energy policy debates. He investigates public perceptions, preferences, and public actions taken in response to environmental issues and policy decisions.
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Data enthusiast, quantitative data analytics specialist. Yazmin completed her PhD in Politics at The University of Edinburgh in 2022 and holds a Master’s in Political Science with a speciality in electoral politics from the Central European University (CEU). She also graduated with a BA from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico with Honours in Communication Sciences.
Her PhD focused on comparing attitudes towards online privacy and political culture in Mexico and Spain. Yazmin’s research contributes to understanding privacy attitudes-behaviours by integrating the relationship between political culture and privacy and considering contextual integrity.
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Professor of European Politics, Director Neuropolitics Research Lab(NRlabs)
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Shantesh Kumar Singh is a resident of India. Presently he is working as an Associate Professor in theDepartment ofPoliticalScience, Central University of Haryana. Prior to this, he was working as an Assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi, India. He has been post-doctoral fellow at the International Institute for Global Health-United Nations University (UNU-IIGH) under the research project entitled “governance for global health” during 2017-2019. To conduct his PhD field work, he has been at the School of Advanced International Affairs, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, USA for a short period. Dr. Singh is an alumna of Brown University’s International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) programme. Dr. Singh obtained his research degrees M.Phil./Ph.D. from the US Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
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My research focuses on policy impacts on inequality. I consider how, for example, work-family policies can reduce gender inequalities in poverty rates, wages, and women's employment. Other research explores how policies are related to women's migration. I also study how policies can be used to mitigate bias against STEM women/faculty of color in faculty positions. My research also explores how race and gender impact the experiences of retail workers.
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Emmanuel is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. He recently received his dual doctorate degrees from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow UK and the University of Naples, Federico II, Italy. He was a Marie-curie Early Stage Researcher with research topic in the area of Bio-geotechnical Engineering.
Emmanuel's background is in Agricultural and Environmental Engineering and his current research focus is in the development of microbial-based technologies for soil Improvement as low-carbon options for erosion mitigation, slope stabilisation and to delay the onset of shallow landslides.
Emmanuel has been an academic staff in the department of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Agriculture, Makurdi - Nigeria since 2012, rising from Graduate Assistant to the rank of Lecturer I, and involved in teaching, research and community service. He is knowledgeable in Environmental Impacts Assessment and enthusiastic about global governance and sustainable development.
Emmanuel is active in research and research dissemination, with a growing research portfolio of publications, contributions to specialist research community, interdisciplinary research management, conference presentations as well as serving as peer reviewer for several top journals.
He has had previous experience in broadcasting (as TV/Radio presenter) and webcasting, having worked with the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA Yenagoa) and the Confluence Cable Network (CCN, Kogi State, Nigeria) as well as the University of Strathclyde Student internet radio 'Strathclyde Fusion'.