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Paulista is a Communication Specialist at an Indonesia-based foundation working to improve citizen participation in the making of the cities, Kota Kita. She is responsible for the foundation's communication strategy and campaign to advocate for joint-stakeholders actions towards more sustainable and socially just Indonesian cities. Paulista contributes to the data analysis and facilitation of series of public discussion to develop A Disability-inclusive City Profile of Solo City, a joint initiative with UNESCO Jakarta office.
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Rizqa is an urban planner graduated from Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia.
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Nina Asterina is a researcher with expertise in urban and policy issues with experience in more than 10 cities in Indonesia. She currently works as the Program Manager for Urban Inclusivity initiatives at Kota Kita Foundation. She researches, develops and implements initiatives that promote more inclusivity in cities, such as participatory mapping, urban mobility, inclusive economy, and disability-inclusive campaigns. She holds a Master’s degree in International Development (Urban Development) from the University of Birmingham, having completed a Bachelor's degree in Public Policy at the University of Indonesia.
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I am currently a researcher at the German Development Institute in Bonn, Germany working on the German Government-sponsored “Reducing Root Causes of Forced Displacement and Managing Migration” project. My research areas include international development, peace and conflict processes, and the politics of digital technology. I’ve recently worked with the International Security and Development Center, where I am an affiliated researcher, on an FAO-funded project on the political economy of food security and conflict, and was a Visiting Scholar at George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution during the 2015-16 academic year. During my PhD I was a Fulbright Public Policy Fellow, advising the Samoan Ministry of Communications and Information Technology on disaster response and crisis prevention policy. Outside academia I have consulted for the World Bank, and worked with TechChange Inc and the U.S. Institute of Peace on peacebuilding, training and technology programs. I earned my PhD at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University in August 2016, and have a MA and BA from American University.
My peer-reviewed work has appeared in International Peacekeeping, International Studies Perspectives, Stability, and the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development. I have written for public audiences in the Washington Post and Frankfurter Rundschau, and provide regular policy advice to organizations including the German development ministry and UN agencies.
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Lecturer in Global Media and Development Communication
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Alexandra is Research Director at C4ED and Professor in Economics at the University of Applied Labor Studies, Mannheim. Alexandra has designed and conducted impact evaluations among others in Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Montenegro, Sudan, Pakistan, and the Philippines. Thereby she works with governments as well as implementing partners (such as ACTED, ILO, NRSP, UNICEF ,World Bank) and leads multiple 3ie-funded projects. Her research covers topics such as education, youth employability/empowerment, nutrition and social cohesion.
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Amy R. Poteete is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal. Her research explores the politics surrounding natural resources, development, and elections in Africa, particularly in Botswana and Senegal. Another strand of writing concerns methodological issues. Her work considers how political dynamics and institutional arrangements interact to influence (de)centralization in both decision-making and access to valuable resources, as well as how distributional inclusivity/exclusivity in turn influences political dynamics. She is the coauthor, with Marco A. Janssen and Elinor Ostrom, of Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice (Princeton University Press), which has been translated into Chinese, Spanish, and Portuguese. She received the Dudley Seers Memorial Prize for best article in volume 45 of the Journal of Development Studies for her article, “Is Development Path Dependent or Political? A Reinterpretation of Mineral-Dependent Development in Botswana” (April 2009). Other publications include chapters in edited volumes and articles in a variety of journals, including Development and Change, Electoral Studies, the Journal of Development Studies, the Journal of Modern African Studies, and World Development.
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Chris Barrington-Leigh is an Associate Professor at McGill University, jointly appointed at the Institute for Health and Social Policy and the School of Environment, and is an associate member in McGill's Department of Economics. One strand of Chris' research is focused on empirical and quantitative assessments of human well-being, and their implications for economic, social, and environmental policy. He uses large international as well as national surveys, experiments, and economic theoretical modeling to understand individual and aggregate consumption benefits, and their implications for policy, including a broad transition to sustainability. Another current strand of work aims to understand household economic and health effects of Beijing's rural household heating coal-to-electricity programme. A third interest of Chris' is the structure of urban road networks, globally, and their implication for development and climate policy. Chris received his doctorate in Economics at the University of British Columbia and was a Global Scholar of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (2009-2014). He originally trained in upper atmospheric and space plasma physics at M.I.T., Stanford, and Berkeley.
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Tim is a Senior Lecturer in Labour, Social Movements and Development at SOAS, University of London and Editor of The China Quarterly. His research focuses on labour movements, industrial relations and trade union reform in China, Russia and Vietnam. From 1996 to 2006, Tim worked with various labour rights organisations in Hong Kong and Mainland China prior to embarking on a PhD at the University of Warwick. Tim has published his research in numerous trade union, labour NGO and peer-reviewed journals and contributed chapters to many edited books. His own books include Trade Unions in China: the challenge of labour unrest re-issued in paperback by Routledge in 2013 and co-authorship of The Challenge of Transition: Trade Unions in Russia, China and Vietnam (2011, Palgrave). Tim’s recent articles include the ‘Rise (and possible) Fall of “Collective Bargaining” in South China’ (2015) International Union Rights; ‘A Class Against Capital: Class and Collective Bargaining in Guangdong’, Globalizations, 2017: 14 (2); ‘Taking Matters into their own hands’ New Internationalist (2016); a blog post entitled ‘What to LNGOs in China do?’ (2016) China Policy Institute; ‘A Solidarity Machine? Hong Kong Labour NGOs in Guangdong, Critical Sociology (2017) Online First ); and ‘Taming Labour: Workers’ struggles, workplace unionism and collective bargaining on a Chinese waterfront’ (2018) ILRReview with Meng Quan.
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Bereket Tsegay is Senior Researcher and Policy Analyst at the London based not-for-profit research institute the Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa (PENHA). He taught also as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and earned a PhD in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), the University of London working on the issue of Green Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa. His research has focused on policy analysis, natural resource governance, food security, pastoralism, dynamics of institutions in development, climate change resilience and green economy, risk management as well as social protection. Bereket has rich experience in both consultancy and programme management of the EU and UN-supported activities in the Horn of Africa region countries including Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somaliland, South Sudan and Sudan and Uganda.