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Public policy Masters student at the University of Cape Town, and part-time research assistant with the Centre for Social Science Research. Interests include family strengthening and early childhood development social policies, and evaluative processes of implementation/delivery.
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I am currently a Communications and Marketing Manager at Good Business Lab. I'm charting a course that began with journalism at The Hindu group and took me through branding, communications and public policy at IT For Change. I completed my undergraduate in Literature, Media, and Psychology in the city of Bengaluru in 2012.
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Senior Fellow with India Development Foundation. I am a public policy consultant and researcher with focus on innovation and socio-economic development, especially in the realm of digital economy, sustainability and accessibility.
I have led policy function at leading companies and extensively engaged with governments, regulators, think tanks, associations and civil society. I have widely spoken and published on such issues as well as played pivotal role in public-private partnerships.
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Vanika Sharma is a Junior Economist at European Centre for International Political Economy, where she works on topics such as trade dependencies and digital trade. She is a co-tutor for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) course on Trade and Gender Linkages in the LDCs. She has also worked on consultancy projects with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) on FDI, including on gender and FDI, and with International Trade Centre on their SheTrades Outlook project. She is a Master’s graduate from Sciences Po, Paris in International Economic Policy and holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from University of Delhi.
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I am currently an MSc Development Studies student at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Before I pursued my postgraduate degree, I was working as a public policy researcher at a think tank in Malaysia focusing on education and human capital development.
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As a Senior Music Education lecturer at the Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria, I received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Music Education (2013) as well as Best Research Achiever (2021). My research focus is on transformative transdisciplinary Multicultural Musicking experiences in Higher Education. As the postgraduate coordinator of the Music Education department, I supervise multiple postgraduate students and act as an external examiner for other South African universities. Collaborations with national, Pan African and international educational landscapes exist.
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Romana J. Březovská is a Research Fellow of the Prague-based think-tank Association for International Affairs. She focuses on climate change in wider contexts, esp. in relation to climate negotiations, climate security, climate diplomacy, and just resilience including EU climate policies and its impacts on different groups of people. Romana is a holder of two master‘s degrees – one in International Relations from the Charles University in Prague and in International Public Management from Sciences Po Paris. From 2019-2020 and during CZ PRES she worked at the Ministry of the Environment of CZE.
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Nyathon Hoth Mai is a gender and climate change researcher. She is currently a Program Officer and researcher in the Department of Environment and Natural Resources Program at The Sudd Institute and a moderator for the South Sudan Women Intellectual Forum (SSWI). At Sudd Institute, Nyathon has produced several research papers on climate change, environmental degradation in the oil-producing regions, transparency and accountability in the Energy sector, and Gender and human rights violations. She presented these research outputs at conferences, and to the concerned policymakers.
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I'm a research officer at the Climate Change in Southeast Asia Programme at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, a think tank based in Singapore which focuses on Southeast Asian issues ranging from geopolitics, economics, sociology and others. The Programme runs an annual Southeast Asia Climate Outlook Survey which gathers public perceptions on climate issues and policies focusing on Southeast Asia and a Climate Change in Southeast Asia Compendium Series which consolidates and publishes research on interdisciplinary climate issues. Personally I have written on climate finance and methane.
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Dr. Shelby Cosner is Professor and Director for the Center for Urban Education Leadership, College of Education, University of Illinois Chicago, 2018-present; Assistant/Associate Professor 2005-2018. Currently also a Research Affiliate for the Qatar Foundation. Network Member for WISE Agile Leaders, Qatar Foundation, Board Member, Global School Leaders. Expert in ed. leadership for organizational improvement, ed. leadership preparation/development, ed. leader learning designs. PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the University of Wisconsin Madison USA.