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Currently working as Principal Scientist(Agricultural Economics), Indian Council of Agricultural Research(ICAR), Govt of India. Past Director(Monitoring & Evaluation), National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE), India. Having 20 years experience in economic policy research with more than 100 peer reviewed journal articles.
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Professor of Practice at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. A pracademic with a track record in editing peer reviewed journals, publishing papers, chapters, books with a particular focus on stress, resilience, health and wellbeing. A Chartered Biologist, Chartered Psychologist and Chartered Scientist.
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Dr Lucy Michael is a sociologist in practice and consultant on equality and integration issues. Her work particularly addresses racist discrimination and violence, experiences of victims, and the roles of statutory institutions and civil society in combating hate crime and exclusion. She is author (with Bryan Fanning) of Immigrants as Outsiders in the Two Irelands (MUP, 2019), and (with Samantha Schulz) of Unsettling Whiteness (Brill, 2019).
She is also a Commission Member on the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. Dr Michael has conducted research with a wide range of public and private sector bodies including the International Organisation for Migration, UK Home Office and European Network Against Racism. She is co-author with INAR of the iReport.ie racist incident reporting system used to map racism in Ireland. She holds a Bachelor of Civil Law degree from University College Dublin, and MA in Criminology and Research Methods and PhD from Keele University. She previously held lecturing posts at Ulster University and University of Hull, and is a former President of the Sociological Association of Ireland.
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Thomas Gillespie is Professor of Environmental Sciences and Environmental Health at Emory University. His research examines the interface of biodiversity and health using a mixed-methods approach to understand disease dynamics and guide policies that protect human and wildlife health, while simultaneously promoting the sustainability of ecosystems. He co-directs the Gombe One Health Hub in Tanzania in collaboration with the Jane Goodall Institute and serves as Director of Infectious Disease Research at Centre Valbio in Madagascar. He is an external expert to the UN High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, a member of the IUCN/SSC, and a National Geographic Explorer.
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Professor Raphael Heffron is Professor in Energy Justice and the Social Contract. In 2020, he was appointed as Senior Counsel at Janson law firm in Brussels (Belgium). Professor Heffron is a qualified Barrister-at-Law, and a graduate of both Oxford (MSc) and Cambridge (MPhil & PhD).
His work all has a principal focus on achieving a sustainable and just transition to a low-carbon economy. He has published over 180 publications of different types, is the most cited scholar in his field worldwide (2600+Scopus) and has given just over 180 keynotes or guest lectures in 51 countries worldwide.
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Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld is professor in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Learning and Design, Aalborg University. Ph.D. from Roskilde University and former Dean, The Faculty of Humanities, Aalborg University (AAU). Main field of research is networked learning, human-centered design, implementation of ICT and learning in organisations, and ICT for development. Currently, she is engaged in research capacity development projects in Northern Uganda on Transforming Education, and on Green Charcoal Inclusive Innovation. Has authored and co-authored several books, papers, articles, and reports. Please have a look at https://vbn.aau.dk/en/persons/100287/publications/
L., Hodgson, V., & McConnell, D. (Eds.) (2012). Exploring the Theory, Pedagogy
and Practice of Networked Learning. New York: Springer Science+Business Media,
318 p.
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Maurizio Teli is Associate Professor in the Department of Planning at the University of Aalborg, Denmark. He holds a PhD in Sociology and Social Research and has always worked in interdisciplinary contexts focusing on the political dimensions of the production and use of digital technologies. With an ethnographic sensibility, he engages in and contributes to the participatory design of digital technologies. He has worked in or coordinated a few EU funded projects, for example the PIE News/Commonfare H2020 project and as part of the Grassroots Radio project. Now, he is Chair of the Centre for Sustainable and Digital Transformation at the TECH Faculty of IT and Design at Aalborg University.
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Ms Aferdita Bytyqi is the Senior Coordinator of the Secretariat of the Lancet and Financial Times Commission. She directs and coordinates the implementation of the Commission work plan, the report and its derivative technical materials, and all activities related to the Commission and Secretariat.
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Dr. McKay is a sociologist and assistant professor of Medicine, Health, and Society with a secondary appointment in Health Policy at Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is also an Associate Director of the Vanderbilt University LGBTQ+ Policy Lab.
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Michael Jakob is a senior fellow at the Ecologic Institute in Berlin, and a research fellow at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC). His research investigates climate change mitigation in developing countries, the political economy of climate policy, and the interlinkages between environmental policy and human well-being.