Lecturer and coordinator for paper 340 “Gender and development”, Centre of Development Studies, university of Cambridge. Biography: Her recent research and professional responsibilities have focused on International development, politics of governance and gender relations. She is currently working for the World Bank as a gender consultant for the Pakistan Trade and Investment policy program. Prior to that she worked as an evaluation consultant for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Rome, Italy. She also worked as a gender consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in Rome, Italy. The work focused on evaluation of the development initiatives of these organizations with a focus on gender, poverty, institutional efficiency and economic growth. Prior to her PhD she worked as urban economist for government of Punjab, in Pakistan. She has also worked as a research associate for the Anti-money laundering project, for the World Bank. Research Interests Maryam is the paper coordinator for Paper 340, “Gender and Development”, part of the MPhil in Development Studies. Her current research focuses on the gender and trade interface, with a special focus on Pakistan. Maryam is also involved in research that examines the performance of performance standards and their correlation to bureaucratic efficiency. Her previous research in the Centre of Development Studies investigated the lack of good governance in developing countries, by examining the inability of the bureaucrat to ensure development which remained correlated to erroneous performance assessment and political alignment. Her recent academic and professional research interests have focused on good governance, institutional efficiency, civil service performance, performance measurement, gender empowerment and poverty reduction. Teaching Maryam lectures in the Centre of development studies on Gender and development issues and on the “Mughals in the Pre-modern India”. Her lectures in south Asian studies focus on the political economy of policy design and implementation. She has also worked as a Lecturer in Development Economics in the Lahore School of Economics for MSc and BSc students. She was the lecturer in Development Economics in Cambridge tradition program, 2012.

Dr Baron is an Associate Professor in the School of Government and International Relations and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Jewish Culture, Society and Politics at Durham University. His research explores different ways that we experience international politics in our everyday lives. To date, he has written on post-truth politics, the Jewish Diaspora's relationship with Israel, and the international cultural politics of Israeli cuisine. In addition, he has written on violence, the ethics of war, identity and security, and International Relations theory. He has held visiting posts at the London School of Economics, the University of British Columbia, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Cambridge and an APSA Public Scholar.

John Barry is Professor of Green Political Economy in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queens University Belfast. His areas of research include green moral and political theory; green, post-growth and heterodox political economy; the politics, policy and political economy of climate breakdown and low carbon energy transitions; normative aspects of environmental and sustainable development politics and policy; action and engaged research; the greening of citizenship and civic republicanism. His books include, Rethinking Green Politics: Nature, Virtue and Progress (1999); Environment and Social Theory, 2nd edition, (2007); and Citizenship, Sustainability and Environmental Research (2000). His co-edited books include The International Encyclopaedia of Environmental Politics (2001), Sustaining Liberal Democracy (2002); Europe, Globalisation and Sustainability (2004), The Nation-State and the Global Ecological Crisis (2005), Contemporary Environmental Politics (2006), Global Ecological Politics ((2011), and Environmental Philosophy: The Art of Living in a World of Limits (2013). His latest book is The Politics of Actually Existing Unsustainability: Human Flourishing in a Climate-Changed, Carbon-Constrained World (2012, Oxford University Press) - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-politics-of-actually-existing-unsustainability-9780199695393?cc=gb&lang=en& He is currently working on a book provisionally entitled ‘The Story of Unsustainable Growth: Understanding Economic Growth as Ideology, Myth and Religion’. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280489369_What's_the_Story_with_Unsustainable_Economic_Growth_Understanding_Economic_Growth_as_Ideology_Myth_Religion_and_Cultural_Meme Barry is the Belfast lead for the 5 year ESRC funded ‘Place Based Climate Action Network’ (PCAN) (2019-2023); a central element of which will be the establishing Belfast City Energy Transition and Climate Commission, which will have a strong Just Transition focus. Barry is leader of a Work Package entitled ‘Understanding Consumer Behaviour and a ‘Just Transition’ beyond Plastic Waste’ as part of an 18 month (April 2019-Sept 2020) UKRI funded ‘Advancing Creative Circular Economies for Plastics via Technological-Social Transitions’ (ACCEPT Transitions) project; Barry is leader of a Work Package entitled as part of the 5 year Prosperity Partnerships 2 funded project (2019-2023) ‘StreetZero: Roadmaps to Zero Net Emissions in Urban Public Transport’. Barry’s WP includes 2 PhD studentship one of which will be on ’ A ‘Just Transition’ of Public Transport Systems He is a former co-editor of the journal Environmental Politics and a member of its Advisory Board. He is a director /board member of Sustainable Northern Ireland, Training for Women Network and Green Foundation Ireland.