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A third year doctoral student in the Department of Informatics at New Jersey Institute of Technology in the United States, my research focuses on Ethical AI governance and Data-driven policy making. The goal of my work is to look at how advances in AI facilitate the human-technology partnership by designing policies and decisions to augment human performance for the overall good of society.
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Dr. Obasesam Okoi is Assistant Professor of Justice and Peace Studies and Coordinator of the Peace Engineering program at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota. He is the Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellow in Atrocity Prevention at Binghamton University, Advisor at the War Prevention Initiative, and AATH Jill Knox Peace Fellow. He holds a Ph.D. in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Manitoba. His research investigates how social systems and environmental systems interact to create patterns of vulnerabilities that lead to conflict and the processes of peacebuilding.
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Juliet Schor is an economist and sociologist at Boston College. Schor’s research focuses on work, consumption, and climate change. Her recent work focuses on the four-day workweek.
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Laura Turley supports the scientific and policy-facing work as a Senior Science-Policy Manager at the Geneva Water Hub, and facilitates exchanges and synergies across this interface. Her expertise lies in the operation of institutions and infrastructure in the context of water scarcity, and on the conditions required for collective action and equitable water allocation in local and transboundary settings. Prior to joining the Geneva Water Hub, Laura worked with the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) for over a decade. She has a PhD in environmental policy.
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Elina Noor is a senior fellow in the Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace where she focuses on developments in Southeast Asia, particularly the implications of technology in reshaping power dynamics, governance, and nation-building in the region.
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Cristina Elena POPA TACHE is associate professor of public international law and communications and new technlogies law, Co-convenor in European Society of International Law - IG International Business and Human Rights, expert member in COST Actions-European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Director of the International Institute for the Analysis of Juridical and Administrative Movements and scientific researcher at the International Center for Transdisciplinary Research (CIRET) Paris.
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I am a disability studies academic at the University of Waikato New Zealand. I teach a Masters program in Disability and Inclusion Studies and undertake research in disability rights including sexuality rights, violence and abuse prevention and inclusive education. Broadly my work aims to transform policy and practice for inclusion promoting inclusive and participatory research methods with people with disabilities.
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Professor of Economics at Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
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Scientist of the Economic analysis of Climate Impacts and Policy (ECIP) Division at the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC). Leader of the macroeconomics and finance research unit. His main research fields are economics of climate change impacts and policy assessment. He has contributed to the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP), collaborated with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Visiting researcher at the Centre for European Economic Research/Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH (ZEW) in 2010.
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Prof. (Dr.) Vivek Kumar, Professor of Sociology and Former Chairperson, Center for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Columbia University, New York, USA in 2012 and a Visiting Faculty at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Prof. Vivek Kumar has delivered the inaugural Ambedkar Memorial Lectures at the University of British Columbia, Simon Frazer University, and York University, all from Canada (2018).