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Head of the Oxford Department of International Development and Professor of the Political Economy of Development at the University of Oxford. Together with Juliana Martínez Franzoni he has worked extensively on universal social policies in the South, with particular attention to Latin America. He is currently working on the determinants and consequences of inequality through the study of the Latin American experience.
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Aleks Deejay is the research coordinator for The Policy Lab. Aleks's research explores the governance of emerging technologies, attitudes towards automation and AI, and critical discourses of technology and technological futures, and use and impact of emerging technologies in public policy and services. He has researched and taught at The University of Melbourne and Monash University.
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I am an experienced Technology Trainer and have been involved in delivering trainings on and teaching students on some of the latest and cutting-edge technologies like: Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning/Deep Learning, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things at various national and international forums.
I am also an Intel Software Innovator - a developer advocacy and speakership program supporting innovative, independent developers who display an ability to create and demonstrate forward-looking projects by providing them with speaking and demonstration opportunities at industry events and developer gatherings. I am also a Google Machine Learning Crash Course Facilitator and an organizer for the Google Cloud Developer Community in New Delhi. I have also involved in executing Google Design Sprints – a Design Thinking and Agile Development Methodology focused training series to improve the user experience of applications.
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Policy research in the institute of policy studies (national university of Singapore) in the area of culture and media
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Justin Lee is interested in the potential of open collaboration to map out social needs, democratising the kind of work that is typically done by researchers, policymakers or specialist agencies. He started wiki.socialcollab.sg and continues to facilitate networks for this purpose.
He has substantive interests in issues relating to disadvantaged populations, and has done research on the social inclusion of people with disabilities, proper end-of-life planning for vulnerable seniors and the re-integration of ex-offenders. He is also interested in the non-profit sector at large, and has been paying keen attention to the role and strengths of new and untapped resources like game designers, community artists and other social innovators.
In his previous position at the National Council of Social Service, Justin led needs-assessment projects, helped design programmes and conducted evaluation studies in partnership with various Voluntary Welfare Organisations. He is also Chairman of ArtsWok Collaborative, a non-profit organisation, which seeks to connect communities by harnessing the power of the arts to create dialogue, invite social participation and build bridges across difference.
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Vice-Principal (Education)
Associate Professor (Education)
St. Xaviers College (Autonomous)
Kolkata, India
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Expertise ranging as a Regional Partner to providing consultations to high net-worth individuals and Royal Family Members to helping generate sales over $500,000 in a year, throughout the course of my career, companies have benefited where I have worked across different positions in different sectors and verticals, including having worked and had business dealings with C and Executive Level ranging from Modern Trade (Hypermarkets and Pharmacies) to International Hotel Chains with the likes of Hilton Properties and Hotel Operators like Al-Hokair to Fitness and Sports Industry including working with the largest gym operator in the GCC
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(Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head at the Communications and New Media Department, Principal Investigator at the Centre for Trusted Internet and Community, and University Librarian at NUS Libraries.)
Natalie Pang completed her BCom at the University of Melbourne, where she began studying the Internet and information systems in the late 1990s. She continued her study of the Internet, its impacts on society and vulnerable populations through her MSc in information studies at Nanyang Technological University, before completing her Doctorate of Philosophy at Monash University, Australia in 2009. Her doctoral work on cultural institutions and participatory technologies in rural communities won her two awards at Monash University.
After completing her doctoral work, she worked at The Gallup Organization on well-being projects in Asia, providing research consultancy to think tanks and public agencies. During this time, she continued to contribute actively to academia through an adjunct teaching appointment at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. In 2011, she took up a full-time academic position at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University and in 2017, she joined the National University of Singapore. Presently, she is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head at the Communications and New Media Department, Principal Investigator at the Centre for Trusted Internet and Community, and University Librarian at NUS Libraries.
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Philippe Cullet is a senior visiting fellow at CPR and professor of international and environmental law at the School of Oriental and African Studies – University of London (SOAS). Professor Cullet has published widely in the fields of environmental law, natural resources, human rights, and the socio-economic aspects of intellectual property. His current research includes work on water law and governance with a particular focus on groundwater, drinking water, sanitation, and institutional reforms; equity in environmental law; biodiversity, including benefit sharing and biosafety; and justice, with a particular focus on environmental and water rights.
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Abhijit is Senior Fellow with ORF’s Economy and Growth Programme. His main areas of research include macroeconomics and public policy, with core research areas in monetary economics and the political economy of finance. Abhijit has extensive experience in economic and policy research, academia, business school teaching, and academic administration. He has a keen interest in micro and macro business environment, sectoral industry case studies, and issues related to public finance, agriculture and development economics. Abhijit is widely published in various academic journals, periodicals, and online platforms.