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Tony Bovaird is Chief Executive of Governance International, a non-profit organization working throughout Europe, and Emeritus Professor of Public Management and Policy at INLOGOV, University of Birmingham, UK. His research covers user and community co-production of public services, strategic management in the public sector, performance measurement in social policy, and evaluation of public management and governance reforms. In the UK he has acted as advisor to the UK Cabinet Office, the Scottish and Welsh Government sand the Northern Ireland Local Governance Association, and internationally to governments in New Zealand, India and Brazil. He has undertaken research for UK Research Councils, the European Commission, many UK government departments, National Audit Office, and many other public bodies in the UK and internationally. He is co-author (with Elke Loeffler) of Public Management and Governance (Routledge, 3rd edition 2016) and the Palgrave Handbook of Co-production of Public Services and Outcomes (Palgrave, 2021).
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Dr. Pavan John Antony is an Associate Professor of Special Education at Adelphi University.
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Cultural manager with expertise in cultural policies, diversity and cultural rights. Trained at the National University of Tres de Febrero, he teaches at the National University of the Arts and at the National University of Córdoba in both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research field is cultural policies, from a rights-based and intercultural perspective. He has published in international journals and different chapters in books on these topics, and has co-edited in 2021 the book "Cultural management and policy in Latin America", published by Routledge. Between 2011 and 2015 he served as National Director for the promotion of Cultural Rights and Cultural Diversity at the national level in Argentina.
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Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Service of NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
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They/She is a Researcher in Assistive Technology at the Global Disability Innovation hub and also member of the Global Cooperation on Assistive Technology, founder of the Neurodivergent Staff Network at UCL, Fair Recruitment Specialist at UCL and member of the UCL Disability Equality Steering Group.
Zuleima is passionate about multidisciplinary research that aims to achieve technology that is affordable, appropriate, accessible and inclusive. Their/Her research interests are human-computer interaction, assistive and wearable technology, participatory research, social media, social model of disability, adult autism, low resource settings and biomedical engineering (medical devices, biomechanics, biomedical instrumentation, signal processing).
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His Excellency Prof. Dr. Ambassador Tal Edgars is Group Executive Chairman of GBSH Consult Group Worldwide, Chairman of the National Master Plan Task team in South Africa in Social Entrepreneurship and Social Development.
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Dr. Christian Busch is the bestselling author of The Serendipity Mindset: The Art & Science of Creating Good Luck – “a wise, exciting, and life-changing book” (Arianna Huffington) that provides “excellent practical guidance for all” (Paul Polman, former CEO, Unilever) – and an internationally known expert in the areas of innovation, purpose-driven leadership, and serendipity. He is the director of the CGA Global Economy Program at New York University (NYU), and also teaches at the London School of Economics (LSE). He is a cofounder of Leaders on Purpose and the Sandbox Network, and a former director of LSE's Innovation Lab. His work has been featured by outlets such as the Strategic Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, The Guardian, Washington Post, and the BBC. He is a regular speaker at conferences such as the World Economic Forum, TEDx, and Financial Times Summit, and is a member of the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Expert Forum, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and on the Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 thinkers "most likely to shape the future." Twitter: @ChrisSerendip.
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Stéphane Mahuteau is an Associate Professor of Economics, Senior Researcher and Co-director of the Future of Employment and Skills research centre (FES) at the University of Adelaide. Prior to this appointment he was the Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute of Labour Studies (NILS) at Flinders University. Stéphane is a leading expert in the design, development and implementation of Impact Evaluations. His research interests in Economics are in Labour Economics, Education Economics, Immigration, Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics, Skills development and utilisation.
He has been extensively involved in a range of government commissioned research projects that he has led or contributed to, and that have influenced policy design and evaluation in a range of government priority areas. Among recent projects he was one of the main authors of the Evaluation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), the Evaluation of the Cashless Debit Card (CDC), and the Evaluation of the National Disability Data Asset looking at the educational and early labour market outcomes of young adults with disabilities (SA test case). He contributed to the first Gonski review of School Funding in Australia.
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Ulohomuno Eze Afieroho is a specialist in project management, infrastructure and cities development as well as a Doctoral Researcher at Alma mater Europaea- ECM in Slovenia. He researches on - innovative public-private partnership, market-based and nature-based solutions for the delivery of sustainable, resilient and inclusive infrastructure in sub-Sahara Africa.
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Nora McIntyre currently works as an Assistant Professor at the Southampton Education School, University of Southampton. With a focus on educational innovation, Nora asks how best to improve teacher effectiveness in educational technology among diverse global populations. She has research interest in culture, socio-emotion, and inequalities. She particularly advocates the use of intensive data via innovative research technology and process-oriented analytic techniques.