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Youssef Filali-Meknassi, né en 1969 à Tanger (Maroc), est un hydrologue et fonctionnaire international. Il occupe en 2019, le poste de Directeur de la Division des Sciences de l'eau de l’UNESCO et de Secrétaire du Programme Hydrologique Intergouvernemental. En septembre 2020, il est nommé directeur du bureau régional à Quito.
Titulaire d’un diplôme en ingénierie chimique de l'Université Mohammed-V de Rabat, il poursuit des études d'ingénierie civile à l'Université de Sherbrooke en partenariat avec l'Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique du Canada (INRS). En 2003, il obtient un doctorat en sciences de l'eau à l'INRS en partenariat avec l'École Polytechnique de Montréal, et concentre ses recherches sur les méthodes d’épuration des eaux usées et sur la conception de procédés industriels et de technologiques pour améliorer la qualité de l’eau à l’effluent.
Il rejoint ensuite l'Université polytechnique de Catalogne et mène des recherches visant à éliminer les perturbateurs endocriniens (EDCs) des eaux usées avant leur rejet ou leur réintégration dans l'environnement. En 2004, il continue ses travaux à la Missouri University of Science and Technology. L'année suivante, il collabore avec l'Institut d'études géologiques des États-Unis sur un projet relatif à la décontamination chimique de La Nouvelle-Orléans suite à l'ouragan Katrina5.
En 2006, il rejoint l'UNESCO, d'abord au Maghreb puis en Afrique australe. En 2016, il est nommé au sein de la Division des Sciences de l'eau et du Secrétariat du Programme Hydrologique Intergouvernemental, et prend en charge le portefeuille d’activités sur l'éducation relative à l'eau.
S'appuyant sur les nouvelles technologies et la science ouverte, il lance en 2013 l’Initiative HOPE (Hydro Free and/or Open-source Platform of Experts) qui encourage l’utilisation des logiciels libres et gratuits pour la gestion de l'eau dans les pays en développement.
En 2017, il conceptualise la plateforme IHP-WINS, une bibliothèque en ligne collaborative hébergeant données, cartes, et documents relatifs à l'eau.
Il siège comme représentant à l'ONU-Eau (en), au Conseil d'administration de l’UNESCO-IHE et du Conseil mondial de l'eau, et est également membre du Comité de pilotage international du 9eme Forum mondial de l’eau (Pour plus d'informalltion: https://ecuador.un.org/es/about/our-team).
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Associate Professor,
Institute for Development Studies,
University of Nairobi
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Historian and sociologist of Latin America in the world. Particular topics of expertise include human rights, democratisation, transitional justice, internationalism, development, and the Cold War and its impacts in Latin America. I am currently an Academic Specialist in Latin America at the University of Melbourne. Before that I was an Assistant Professor in International Studies at Leiden University.
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Dr Carrillo Lerma is currently a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies (CERI) and a Lecturer at Sciences Po - Paris. Her research interests and expertise touch upon diaspora politics, memory politics/politics of memory, social transformation, conflict transformation, and participatory research methodologies. From 2017 to 2019, Dr Carrillo Lerma served as Project Officer at the UNESCO Associated Schools Network (ASPnet). She has also worked at Eugene Lang College – The New School for Liberal Arts, UNESCO’s Social and Human Sciences Sector, the UN Department of Public Information (UN Photo Library) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). Dr Carrillo Lerma has multidisciplinary academic training which has enriched her methodological approach to social science research. She holds a PhD in Historical Studies and Politics (NSSR, 2017) and PhD in Political Science (Sciences Po, 2016), an MPhil in Comparative Politics and an MA in Historical Studies from The New School for Social Research, an MSc in International Affairs from Sciences Po, Paris, and a BA in History (with a minor in Sociology) from the Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombia).
Photo - credit must read: Catherine Gilbert.
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Mr. AHM Bazlur Rahman has been serving as Chief Executive Officer of Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio & Communication (BNNRC) since 2000. He has been struggling for the last 20 years for leveraging community media and the right to communicate in order to create successful policy advocacy in Bangladesh in line with community media development from 2000. In recognition of his outstanding and committed extraordinary services for promoting Community Media and ICT, he has awarded the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) prize in 2016, 2017, 2019 & 2020.
He is serving as a member of Community Radio Monitoring Committee of Ministry of Information, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. He is also a member of Multi-Stakeholder Steering Group (MSG) of Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) and co-founder of Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum. He was the strategic council member of UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN GAID) from the Asia and Pacific. He is serving as the three member of the jury panel for the Free Press Unlimited Newcomer of the Year in Journalism – Hans Verploeg Awards from 2016, The Netherlands.
He has been actively promoting shaping the future of Media, Entertainment and Culture in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in line with using AI, Block chain, Internet of things and Big data.
He has the unique quality of experience and contribution in an inclusive manner in multi-stakeholders of politics, development partners, the private sector, NGO & civil society, public sector, UN, policy makers, academia and media. He is known as transformational expert, visionary, and change agent. He can be reached at bnnrcbd@gmail.com | ceo@bnnrc.net
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Emma is a human geographer specialising in disaster risk reduction (DRR), vulnerability, resilience and transforming risk responses. Her research examines the complex set of contextual factors that impede and/or improve resilience and vulnerability levels to risk with a regional focus on South-East Asia and Australia and the South Pacific. Her research career began looking at the vulnerability and resilience of tourism destinations to natural hazards. However, the last several years has seen her focus shift to disability and disasters. Taking a systems approach, her current work explores two fundamental questions designed to advance inclusion in the disaster space: 1) what does inclusion means in the context of DRR and 2) what steps - including knowledge generation and sharing, processes and practices - are needed to make DiDRR a lived reality.
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Professor of sociology at Paris VIII University, researcher at CRESPPA-LabToP, Nicolas Duvoux is a specialist in issues of social solidarity, poverty and philanthropy. He is the author of several books including Social inequalities, Paris, PUF, “Que-sais-je?”, 2017; The forgotten ones of the American dream. Philanthropy, State and Urban Poverty in the United States, Paris, PUF, 2015 or The New Age of Solidarity. Poverty, precariousness and public policies, Paris, The Republic of Ideas / Le Seuil, 2012 as well as numerous articles and interventions in the press. He has been Visiting Scholar at Harvard University (2012-2013) and guest lecturer in many countries (Russia, Lithuania, Canada, USA, Switzerland, Belgium, etc.) and academic institutions. In addition to his teaching and research activities, he is a collection director at Presses Universitaires de France and editor-in-chief of Vie des idées.fr. Finally, he participates regularly in public policy evaluation activities. After having been a member of the Evaluation Committee of Active Solidarity Income (2009-2011), he became a member of the University College of the National Observatory of Poverty and Social Exclusion (since 2014) and is, for this reason, president of the monitoring and evaluation committee of the Support Fund for Integration Policies with the Ministry of Solidarity (2018-2021).
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Thom Brooks is Professor of Law and Government at Durham University’s Law School and its longest-serving Dean from 2016 to 2021 (with Associate Membership in the Philosophy Department and School of Government & International Affairs). He has held visiting positions at Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, LUISS, NYU, Nice (Cote d'Azur), Oxford, Penn, St Andrews, Uppsala and Yale.
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Sophie is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Sydney’s School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and the Charles Perkins Centre. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Oriental Studies (First Class) and a Master of Science in Social Anthropology from The University of Oxford. Sophie’s PhD at Macquarie University was funded by an International Endeavour Scholarship and received a Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation in 2019. Sophie’s research explores the intersections of capitalism, ecology, and indigeneity in Indonesia, with a specific focus on changing interspecies relations in the context of deforestation and agribusiness development. Her current research deploys inter-disciplinary methods to explore the nutritional and cultural impacts of agribusiness on indigenous food-based socialities, identities, and ecologies.
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Research on industrial policy, extractives, energy transitions and economic diversification strategies in resource-dependent countries.