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Professor of economics at Universidad del Rosario (UR), Colombia, and Director of the Research Center on Equitable and Inclusive Progress (EQUIP). Former Dean of the School of Economics at UR. Holds a PhD in Economics from Boston University. He served as General Coordinator of the Colombian National Development Plan in in 2022 and 2014. Has held positions as Deputy Director of the Colombian National Department of Statistics, and member of different expert commissions on poverty, labor markets, and and inequality of Colombia.
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I am a professor of environmental economics at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. My research focuses on the design of environmental policy instruments. Recent focus has been on issues of acceptability of policy instruments, their distributional effects, and ways of making efficient instruments such as taxes more acceptable by refunding or using revenues constructively.
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I love tackling the challenges related to food systems, climate change and governance. Over the last 9 years, I have researched and engaged with policymakers on these topics in Belgium, South Africa, Mozambique, Kenya, Denmark and the Netherlands. My publications include academic articles, reports, blogs, and book chapters, combining qualitative and quantitative analyses.
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Rajendra Baikady, Ph.D.FRSA is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work, at the Central University of Kerala, India, and a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Social Work and Community Development, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Dr. Baikady is the Founding Editor in Chief of the Journal "Discover Global Society" published by Springer Nature, London.
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Professor of the Practice Urban Studies and Planning. Urban Management and Development Program, Universidad del Rosario. IADB and WB Consultant on local development programs & Housing policies (Washington DC), Visiting professional Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (Cambridge, MA). Current research agenda: Informal urban development
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For the last 17 years, I have been a Professor at the Intercultural Indigenous Diplomacy School (EIDI) at Rosario University, which is dedicated to proposing educational activities in indigenous communities in Colombia. I founded this participatory, intercultural and intersectional academic space when I first joined the University with a group of colleagues, aiming at the decentralization and democratization of the production of knowledge.
More than 6500 indigenous people (including 2000 indigenous women) have participated in the diplomas offered by EIDI.
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Senior Analyst in the Polish Institute of International Affairs on Ukraine in Eastern Europe Programme.
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I'm a Fellow of Public & International Affairs at City U of Hong Kong, a Research Associate at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, & an Ecosystem Builder at Dream Impact. My interdisciplinary background spans sustainable development, urbanization, energy transitions, climate change, environmental policy, and social entrepreneurship. I'm committed to developing inclusive policies for social equity and environmental sustainability through public-private partnerships. I hold a Ph.D. in Geography from Durham, and I completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Dr. Koustab Majumdar presently associated with Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute (RKMVERI) and Visiting Scholar (Post-Doc) of International Center of Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Taiwan. Dr. Majumdar is the recipient of the Taiwan Fellowship (2023) granted by Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), China (Taiwan). His key research focuses on rural transformation, indigenous studies, indigenous social welfare policy, international social work and well-being studies.
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Harris Zainul is a public policy analyst with the Institute of Strategic and International Studies Malaysia. There, he works on the intersection of technology, society and human rights, with a focus on the consequences of mis- and disinformation on democracy and politics. His work has been featured by the World Economic Forum, Financial Times, CNBC, Al Jazeera and the South China Morning Post, among others. He holds a postgraduate degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies where he read Southeast Asian politics and an undergraduate degree in law from the University of Liverpool.