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Professor of Human Geography, University of Birmingham, UK. Degrees/post-nominals: BA (Hons), PhD, FRGS, FAcSS, FRSA. I specialise in research about children and their environments - knowledge/practices/experiences of environmental change, pollution and resources. I also research children's experiences of and participation in the planning of cities. My final area of specialism is in researching education spaces (particularly their design and use) - in formal, informal and alternative education sectors.
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Adjunct Professor Tuuli Lahti is a Principal Lecturer at the Master School of Health and Wellbeing of Turku University of Applied Sciences in Finland. She is an expert in health promotion, policy and services and is experienced in international and interdisciplinary environments.
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With great passion, Sheila Conejos continues to promote the concept of "adapt+maintain+sustain+circulate" the built environment for a sustainable and resilient future. She is a multidisciplinary professional and academic with 25 years of experience as architect, urban planner and sustainable development specialist in Asia-Pacific. She has a PhD in Sustainable Development and Architecture and was awarded the CIOB Australasia Research Excellence Award for Doctoral Research. Sheila is an active researcher and author of a number of peer reviewed journals on urban and building sustainability.
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Research Fellow, UNESCO CHAIR - CPAS, ANU. Rini Astuti’s research focuses on environmental and resource governance in Indonesia, including on climate change mitigation and adaptation policies. Her recent research is on transboundary haze & peatland governance. She is currently developing new research agenda on the “critical geographies of decarbonisation”. She studies Indonesian small islands as frontiers of critical material extraction for green economy agenda and traces who bears the burden and shares the benefits of global energy transitions.
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Over two decades in ‘marketing for a better world,’ Sameer has taught, widely published in academic outlets, reviewed, trained and consulted with government and non-profit organizations in India, Canada, Singapore, Australia, and the U.S. He is the Editor of Social Marketing Quarterly. Sameer has raised over two million dollars and published studies testing the effectiveness of audience-oriented behaviour change initiatives in various contexts, including digital fin inclusion. Sameer is open to collaborating on using behaviour change principles to influence policies and upstream stakeholders.
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Man Kit (Karlo) Lei is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia, USA. His research interests include social determinants of health, criminology, structural inequality, family and neighborhood studies, and quantitative methods.
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Senior Behavioral/Social Scientist for the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation. Research areas include: homeland and national security law; regulation and policy, particularly as they relate to immigration, border security, migration, asylum and refugee processing; space governance and international law; law enforcement; and national defense; civil and criminal legislation, law, and litigation; statutory and regulatory compliance; international and customary law (including treaty-based regimes).
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Daniel Castro is vice president at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) and director of ITIF's Center for Data Innovation. He writes and speaks on a variety of issues related to information technology and internet policy, including privacy, security, intellectual property, Internet governance, e-government, and accessibility for people with disabilities.
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Padmaja Vedula is a Sr. Information Scientist at the nonprofit, nonpartisan, RAND Corporation, specializing in cyber policy and deterrence, emerging technologies, and digital transformation. She has a multidisciplinary background and her other areas of work include technology and social well-being, food security, forced migration, refugee assimilation, human rights, and environmental governance.
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Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Health Education at the U of North Carolina Greensboro. Health promotion and health policy researcher and advocate/author for advocacy and research leading to ‘policy, systems, and environmental’ change. Author of PhotovoiceKit.org designed to train and lead communities through local photovoice efforts leading to local changes that engender sustainable rather than solely individual-level impacts.