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Martina (BA, MPhil) is a PhD Candidate at the Deparment of Sociology, University of Cambridge. She specializes in gender, sexual and reproductive health, time, inequality and development. Martina has worked as a consultant for the Human Development Programme of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Social Development Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and the United Nations Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean (RBLAC).
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Dr. Jennifer A. Delaney is an Associate Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also the Director of the Forum on the Future of Public Education at the University of Illinois. Dr. Delaney’s research focuses on higher education policy, with an emphasis on finance. She has published extensively in the areas of student financial aid, state budgeting for higher education, and on related topics of higher education policy. She worked for the US Department of Education and the US Congress on issues of student financial aid with the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance from 2000-2002. From 2003-2005, she was a policy analyst with the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, where she contributed to the Measuring Up reports, state-by-state report cards on higher education performance. She also served as a consultant for the Commission on the Future of Higher Education (under US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings) in 2005-2006. Dr. Delaney served as chair of the Council for Public Policy in Higher Education from 2011-2014 with the Association for the Study of Higher Education. In 2014, she was the Faculty Fellow for the Illinois Board of Higher Education. Previously she was an assistant professor of higher education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Dr. Delaney earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from Stanford University, an Ed.M. in Higher Education from Harvard University, and a B.A. in English from the University of Michigan.
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I am a PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam. I have long-term working experience in inclusive development, policy formulation, gender and child rights.
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PhD Candidate, Development Studies
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I am an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. My academic work focuses mainly on the intersections of race, crime and criminal justice. I am studying developments in drug policy.
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Timothy Hodges is Professor of Practice in Strategic Approaches to Global Affairs at McGill University's Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID) where, in his work focuses on the application of strategic foresight methodologies in global affairs, the negotiation and implementation of international sustainable development treaties by Indigenous Peoples, governments and stakeholders.
Concurrently, he is Principal Consultant at Timothy J Hodges & Associates, providing leadership training and confidential strategic advisory services to governments, industry, private non-profit organizations, and indigenous and local communities in support of legally-binding treaty and commercial agreement negotiations, foresight analysis and anticipatory planning for organizational resilience.
Timothy Hodges is a former career Canadian diplomat, with a focus on environmental, economic, and trade policy issues including, for example, in the UN General Assembly, G8, WTO, APEC, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, UN Food and Agricultural Organization, UNESCO, OECD, Organization of American States, NAFTA, and the Arctic Council.
He served as Co-Chair, intergovernmental negotiating committee for the United Nations treaty on Access and Benefit-sharing of Genetic Resources (Nagoya Protocol), 2006-2010.
Timothy Hodges is past President of the Canadian Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers (PAFSO).
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Shreyashi Dasgupta is the Jawaharlal Nehru Cambridge PhD scholar at the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge. She also supervises undergraduates in the Department of Geography at Cambridge. Her current work concerns the transitory spaces in urban housing and examines the emerging forms and processes of temporary accommodation for low-income workers in Dhaka (Bangladesh) and Mumbai (India). She has co-founded the Cambridge Urbanism in the Global South interdisciplinary working group. Prior to her PhD, Shreyashi has worked on a wide range of developmental issues for the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat, Observer Research Foundation, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and Research (PUKAR), BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) that centred on water and sanitation, housing, land-use, spatial planning and urban governance in India and Bangladesh.
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Arijit Nandi is an Associate Professor jointly appointed at the McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy and the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health. An epidemiologist by training, Arijit is broadly interested in the impact of public policies on population health and health inequalities. He Nandi holds a Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Global Health.
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Jo L. Husbands is a Scholar with the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, where her work focuses on issues related to science, technology, and security. She also represents the Academies on the Biosecurity Working Group of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), a network of over 130 national and regional academies of sciences and health. From 1991-2005 she was Director of the Academies’ Committee on International Security and Arms Control and its Working Group on Biological Weapons Control. From 2001-2012 Dr. Husbands was an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. She is a Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, an inaugural member of the Advisory Board on Education and Outreach of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and a member of the editorial board of Politics and the Life Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota and a Masters in International Public Policy (International Economics) from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
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Franque Grimard is an Associate Professor of the Department of Economics at McGill University. He has been teaching Economic Development at the B.A. Master’s and Ph.D. levels for the last 20 years. His research specialties are Development and Health Economics, where he is interested in the application of statistical analysis and data collection to applied policy issues such as poverty and social protection, health, gender empowerment, public finance management, corporate social responsibility and extractive industries, and sustainable development. Professor Grimard’s research on health focuses on the social-economic determinants of health. In particular, it analyses the long-term impact of shocks for the health of individuals and the cost effectiveness of health programs to improve the living standards of poor women in Peru. His health work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine and in the Journal of Health Economics.
His work on economic development has been published in the Journal of Development Economics, World Development, Economic Development and Cultural Change, the Review of Development Economics and Ecological Economics. His current research projects look at the impact of cash transfer programs on women’s empowerment in Tanzania, on the availability of quality daycare on women’s empowerment in urban slums of Kenya and at the impact of extractive industries on the standard of living of individuals in Panama.
In terms of consulting, he has worked on evaluations of programs and projects of organizations such as CARE, the World Bank, the Canadian International Development Agency (now Global Affairs Canada (GAC)), DANIDA, CARE, IDRC, Health Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, the Public Health Agency of Canada.
Finally, Professor Grimard is also the president of the Canadian Development Economics Study Group (CDESG). Operating with an IDRC grant, CDESG is the main research group on development economics in Canada organizing policy panels in the area of development economics, sponsoring developing country scholars to come to CDESG conferences to present their work, building a community of researchers in Canada and abroad to produce research and applied policy in development economics for policy makers in Canada and in developing countries.