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Dr Jackson Otieno is Water Economist at Athi Water Works Development Agency and a Research Fellow of the EfD in Kenya where he also doubles up as an executive committee member. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cape Town, School of Economics. He is also a guest lecturer at the University of Nairobi and supports the Department of Meteorology at the University of Nairobi in supervision of students. He is a former Principal Economist with National Treasury and Planning, Kenya. His current research interest is in the area of biodiversity conservation, climate change, water and sanitation, valuation of non-market environmental amenities, and economics of wildlife conservation.
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Lecturer and gender expert at the University of Dar es Salaam
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I am chief researcher/associate professor at the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) at the University of Cape Town, with a PhD in Sociology and close to two decades of experience in leading multi-disciplinary research projects that focus on youth, poverty and deprivation. My work spans longitudinal quantitative data analysis, ethnographic studies and implementation research, involving careful, high level policy engagement.
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Tanvir Singh is Project Manager at IIT Bombay for Spoken Tutorial Program fostering IT Literacy through Open Source Technology under National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT), Ministry of Education, Government of India.
He has published 60+ review/research papers in International Journals. He is a Founder President of Green ThinkerZ advocating United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) 2030 – The Global Goals. He is Certified National Geographic Certified Educator.
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Canada Research Chair in Policies and Health Inequalities
Chair and Professor, Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy, School of Population and Global Health
Professor, Department of Sociology
McGill University, Canada
Founding Director of the Consortium on Analytics for Data-Driven Decision making (CAnD3), (https://mcgill.ca/cand3/), an international consortium of 38 academic, government, private and nonprofit organizations delivering training in support of data-driven decision making in ageing societies.
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Professor (Chair) in Global Health Design Innovation and the Co-Director of the Future Cities Research Institute; a £3+ million interdisciplinary institute between Sunway University in Malaysia and Lancaster University, on research in Sustainable, Resilient, Liveable and Digital Cities.
Driven by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, my research focuses on tackling community global (human & planetary) health challenges across the world, by working in the intersection of health, sustainability, design & technology. My research has been published in over 100 international research articles
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Andreea is the Executive Director of the Government Outcomes Lab at the University of Oxford, where she leads the team’s pioneering programme of policy engagement. Her work focuses on building bridges between academia and policymakers for better social outcomes. As such she works closely with leading academics, government officials and practitioners around the world to improve the understanding and practice of outcomes-focused cross-sector partnerships.
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I am a Professor of Literacy Studies in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University and currently Associate Dean for Engagement in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
My current research projects are:
0-3-year-old children's language and literacy learning at home in a digital age
Research Mobilities in Primary Literacy Education
The Edwardian Postcard Project
I'm also interested in regeneration of the environment, sustainability and equality, diversity and inclusion.
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Professor Christopher Boyle, PhD is the Associate Head (Research) in the School Education at the University of Adelaide. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He is the Co-Editor in Chief (with Kelly Allen) of the Journal of Human Belonging and Connection.
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Abiodun Olusola Omotayo is academic, senior researcher and practically experienced NRF-C2 rated researcher/scientist in the field of agricultural economics at the North West University, South Africa. He has over 15 years’ professional research and lecturing experience with focus on the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He has contributed to the UN’s Sustainable targets in Africa through the application of applied economics. His research engagements specifically have implications across climate change, food-nutrition security, environmental, health and welfare economics.