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Li Yang is a research associate at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and a research fellow at the World Inequality Lab (WIL) at Paris School of Economics. Previously, he was a researcher in the World Bank DEC research group in Washington D.C. from 2013 to 2017, a Marie Curie research fellow at Paris School of Economics from 2018 to 2020, and a Stone research fellow at INSEAD from 2020 to 2021. He was also the coordinator for East and South Asia at the World Inequality Lab from 2018 to 2021. His main research interests pertain to income and wealth inequality, economic history and political economy. His research output has been published in scientific journals such as American Economic Review, China Economic Review and the British Journal of Sociology. He was awarded a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship from European Commission in 2018 and a research grant from the World Bank DEC research group for individual research in 2014.
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Anish Sugathan is Assistant Professor at the Business Policy Area of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and is Research Affiliate at the International Growth Center at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests are in the area of institutional and governance infrastructure of emerging economies that fosters sustainable development of private and public stakeholders.
He holds an undergraduate degree in Engineering from the University of Kerala, and is a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He was the SAP Labs India doctoral scholar at IIM-B, and the Giorgio Ruffolo post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He has previously worked with IBM, BHEL, IIM-Bangalore, Center for Development Studies and Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Business and Government in various capacities. At IIM-A, he teaches courses on corporate sustainability, strategic management, government systems and policy processes, data analysis, and applied econometric methods.
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Physical education teacher, lecturer at Ohalo College, specializing in innovative pedagogy through technology, doctoral student of educational sciences
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Disability-inclusive development practitioner, focused mainly on disability-inclusive education and disability data.
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Adetoun Küppers-Adebisi (Dipl.-Wirt.Ing., Author, curator, journalist and lecturer for black German literatures, culture and media, MINT - ambassador and diversity coordinator for civil society and Berlin administration.)
With her doctoral thesis on gender and anti-racism Perspective, she plans post & decolonial paradigm shifts in the categories of waste management, neo-colonialism and nation. She lectured at universities in Fulda and Göttingen, Hamburg Bremen and Berlin.
As president of AFROTAK TV cyberNomads and federal executive of The African Network Germany TANG, she realizes concepts for black and diasporic knowledge productions (educational archive, multimedia lab, online platform). She was the German speaker for the African Union in Paris and for the UN Decade for People of African Descent in Geneva. As a project coordinator, she closes gaps that are not covered in the mainstream (Black Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art and Discourse, DOCUMENTA Africana Germanica, Black Media Congress Berlin, National Action Plan against Racism & Ethnic Discrimination Berlin, DaMigra – Women migrant umbrella organisation).
As a chosen guarantor deputy she initiates cultural-political inclusion, lobbies and cooperation with institutions such as House of World Cultures HKW, Goethe Institute, Federal Agency for Political Education BPB, Heinrich-Boell-, Friedrich-Ebert- and Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation. UNESCO Germany proclaimed in 2004 the co-initiated literature prize as a project to commemorate the slave trade and its abolition (May-Ayim-Award). She was honored by Black Heritage magazine in 2010, 2013 and 2017 as one of the most important Afro-Germans. And the Berlin Senate, the Federal Government and the European Union have repeatedly honored her innovative approaches and interventions into civil society. In 2018 she was selected as a scholarship holder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Climate and Disaster Reduction Policy and Programme Advisor with UNDP, based in Zambia. I am a sustainable development specialist with over 20 years of work experience in development policy analysis, formulation and management. I support policy and institutional strengthening for equitable, gender-responsive and inclusive development in developing countries.
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Clare Castillejo is a Research Associate with ODI’s Politics and Governance Programme, as well as an Associate Researcher with the German Development Institute (DIE). She is an expert in governance and rights in fragile states, with a particular interest in inclusive peacebuilding and statebuilding. She has extensive experience in research, policy and programming on these issues.
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Ms Priscilla Sani-Chimwele is a development practitioner with more than a decade working in development. Eight of these have been spent successfully delivering projects in the United Nations.
She currently works in the Regional Private Sector Unit of UNDP's Regional Service Centre for Africa (RSCA). In her current role, Priscilla implements interventions related to impact investment, financial inclusion for the bottom of the economic pyramid & youth entrepreneurship in Africa. She is keenly interest in Impact Investment and has authored a blog on the topic as well as made substantial contributions to a UNDP report on “Impact Investment in Africa; Trends, Constraints and Opportunities”.
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I am an experienced development economist and Senior policy advisor with relevant experience at the national, regional and global levels, dealing with long term development planning, macroeconomic analysis, sustainable development frameworks and poverty and human development issues.
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Researcher.
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EU migration and development policies
Migration and resilience
Adaptation to environmental change