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Dr. Cristina-Ioana Dragomir is a scholar of migration, gender and environment. She is a Clinical
Assistant Professor in Global Liberal Studies department at New York University.
Dr. Dragomir previously taught at Columbia University, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, served as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at SUNY Oswego, and was a Center for Advanced Study of India 2016-2018 Visiting Scholar at University of Pennsylvania. Additionally,
she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy.
She consults with the United Nations, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), and International Organization for Migration.
She received her PhD from New School for Social Research in 2014, for her work on immigration in the U.S., her M.A. in American Studies and her B.A. in Philosophy from Babes Bolyai University in Romania. She is the recipient of several awards and fellowships including NYU Migration Network Research Award, the Ted Robinson Memorial Award, Bucerius Ph.D. Fellowship “Settling in Motion,” and The Global Network Grant from Open Society Institute. Her work has been widely published in books and articles in English, Spanish, Catalan and Hindi.
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Himannshu Sharma is the Founder of Project Education, an organisation engaged in empowering younger generation on sustainable development goals, currently supporting hundreds of schools & students around the world, an organisation which is actively involved in research, policy, and education. Himannshu is a sustainability professional and researcher with extensive background in education, sustainability, businesses, research & statistics. He is experienced in developing and analysing education policy, synthesising and communicating evidence, managing diverse coalitions, and working with government, philanthropy, and other partners to achieve education policy objectives. Himannshu is passionate about education with 20+ years diversified exposure in establishing and nurturing sustainability education and implementation across businesses and industries. He has received many accolades from global leaders and institutions from around the world including honoris causa from top universities around the world.
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Ijenu Benjamin is a Philosopher; Social Entrepreneur, Writer, and Co-founder of Benonee, an agricultural company providing low-cost quality seeds that make life easier for smallholder farmers in Nigeria. Prior to founding Benonee, he taught African literature at Abu College. He holds a B.Phil. in Philosophy from the prestigious Pontifical Urbaniana University, Rome, and is currently a graduate student at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. His research interests include identity, self, and personality in existentialism as a philosophical movement. Past projects include advocacy against the "Baby Factory In Nigeria", a UN Women's UNiTE Campaign to End Violence against Women by 2030. He enjoys activism against GBV, modern-day slavery, forced labor, and human trafficking at the community level, as well as addressing the root causes of food security in Africa.
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(PhD) Associate Professor, Social Scientist, Philosopher, Educator and Systems Thinker, he is Scientific Director of CHAOS (2011). IETI and WAAS Fellow, WCSA VP, he was selected as expert in the SciArt JRC Group -European Commission. UN Expert and invited speaker, he is Director (Scientific Listening) at the Global Listening Center and IPSA Fellow. He teaches at the University of Perugia and he is a referee for prestigious scientific journals worldwide. Fellow of the New England Complex Systems Institute and of European Complex Systems Society, author of numerous scientific books and articles.
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Colleen Loomis is faculty at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Wilfrid Laurier University’s School of International Policy & Governance (Canada). She is Co-Director, of the doctoral program in Global Governance and Director of the Master of International Public Policy program.
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Prof. Dr. Andreas Peichl is Director of the ifo Center for Macroeconomics and Surveys, Professor of Economics, esp. Macroeconomics and Public Finance, at the University of Munich(LMU), as well as and Head of the LMU-ifo Economics & Business Data Center (EBDC). He has been involved in various research projects conducted on behalf of national ministries, the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Word Bank, and the OECD, among others. His current research interests include (empirical) public economics, labor economics, and welfare economics with particular reference to policy reforms and their empirical evaluation and the analysis of income distributions. Peichl has published extensively in international academic journals (such as the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the European Economic Review, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of Human Resources, among others).
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Full professor of Social Work, Aalborg University, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Denmark. Trained social worker. Programme co-ordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Master in Advanced Development in Social Work. Editor-in-Chief of the 'European Social Work Research' journal. Main research interests: Service user experience and participation in collaboration with authorities; Power relations in the collaboration between service users and social workers; Developing and performing research in close collaboration with practice and service users.
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Dr. Olga Talal is a Postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity at Queen's University. Dr. Talal is interested in nationalism and ethnicity, minority rights, public policy toward minorities and obtained a PhD in Political Studies from Queen’s University, Canada in 2020, a M.A in Political Science and a B.A in Political Science and Communication from the University of Haifa, Israel.
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Ranjit is an Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies program and the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California Santa Barbara, where he leads the Clean Energy Transformation Lab. Ranjit's work focuses on energy, environment, and economics and he has led several studies on low carbon energy transitions and their impacts. His geographical focus is mainly in South Asia, Africa, and the United States.
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Balazs Sarvari is a Senior Lecturer at Corvinus University of Budapest, Rector's counsellor at the Saint Ignatius Jesuit College, Senior Researcher at the Central Bank of Hungary on the field of Sustainable Finance. His major fields of research are: Sustainable Finance, Chinese economic policy, political economics of globalization and cultural heritage. He has a PhD in Economics and International Relations and a Degree in Economics (2010) - Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary