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Divya is an economist by training and works in economics and policy space. She undertakes data-led research and publication in the realm of trade and economics for a policy audience.
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Prof. Gil de Zúñiga serves as Distinguished Research Professor at University of Salamanca, as Media Effects Professor at Pennsylvania State University, and as Senior Research Fellow at Universidad Diego Portales. His work aims to shed an empirical social scientific light over how social media, algorithms, AI, and other technologies affect society.
Recognized as Journal of Citation Reports Highly Cited Scholar, he is Fellow of the International Communication Association, and recipient of the Pennsylvania State University Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Social and Behavioral Sciences.
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Martino Maggetti is associate professor of political science at the Institute of Political Studies of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His research interests focus on regulatory governance and comparative public policy. He is the principal investigator of the project Trust in Governance and Regulation in Europe (TiGRE), funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme (2020-2024). He is the editor of the Swiss Political Science Review. Information on his research and publications is available at https://maggetti.org.
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I'm the Scientific Director of Pandemic Prevention Institute @ The Rockefeller Foundation. In this capacity, I am leading a team of transdisciplinary researchers to shape, develop and coordinate integrative research into how data-driven modeling can end current and prevent future pandemics. I am building a transdisciplinary research program that leverages mathematical and computational modeling, machine learning, and data science to identify the eco-evolutionary, demographic, and environmental drivers of pathogen emergence, persistence, and spread.
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Prof. Dr. Michael Opielka is Scientific Director of the ISÖ - Institute for Social Ecology in Siegburg and Professor of Social Policy at the Ernst-Abbe-University of Jena. From 2012 to 2016 he also headed the IZT - Institute for Future Studies and Technology Assessment in Berlin. 2015 Guest Professor for Social Sustainability at the University of Leipzig. Visiting Scholar UC Berkeley (1990-1, 2005-6). Doctorate (HU Berlin 1996) and Habilitation (Univ. Hamburg 2008) in Sociology.
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Peter Gluckman is the President of the International Science Council. He is an internationally recognized biomedical scientist, and currently heads Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures at the University of Auckland.
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Carlos Godoy earned his JD from UC Berkeley in 1998 and his PhD from USC Annenberg in 2007. He has served as a public policy consultant for the Institute of Medicine assessing the state of science on the health status of LGBT populations. Specifically, Professor Godoy examined the impact of the internet on the health of LGBT people; the opportunities that new technology provides to conduct innovative research with LGBT populations, especially hard to reach groups. He is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.
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International Social Development Expert and Programme /Project Management Professional specialised in systems thinking for holistic interventions and integrated programming that promotes and derives comprehensive services and outcomes for the most vulnerable and marginalised population groups. 25 years' experience in social development programming, strategy development and planning, policy advocacy, development, analysis and monitoring, developing guidelines and Capacity building tools, monitoring evaluation and reporting, research, vulnerability mapping and analysis.
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Victor Tan Chen is an associate professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University who studies economic inequality, labor markets, and participatory organizations. He is the author or coauthor of Organizational Imaginaries: Tempering Capitalism and Tending to Communities through Cooperatives and Collectivist Democracy (2021), Cut Loose: Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair Economy (2015), and The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America (2007). He has received the Joyce Rothschild Book Prize from Rutgers University and the John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award from LERA.
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Dr. Lieke van Heumen is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois at Chic. She earned a PhD in disability studies in 2015. She received both her undergraduate and master degrees in psychology from the Radboud University in the Netherlands. She was a 2019-2020 American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow and 2019-2020 Health and Aging Policy Fellow, placed with the U.S Senate Special Committee on Aging with Senator Casey. Her expertise focuses on aging and disability and inclusive research and teaching.