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Lloyd Kolbe is Emeritus Professor at Indiana University School of Public Health—Bloomington. He conducts public health policy research and development to improve child and adolescent health and education in the U.S. and other nations. He has held senior positions across private-sector, government, and academic institutions; written more than 170 scientific publications about the health and education of young people, school health programs, and public health policies; and served for 18 years as founding Director of the U.S. CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health.
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Dr. Jamil Malik is working as tenured associate professor at the National Institute of Psychology, Quaid-i-Azam University, and providing consultancy to several national and international organizations. He has completed PhD in Health Psychology form Amsterdam, and Postdoctorate experience in Medical Psychology from University of Miami. Wiht more than 60 publications on his account, his honors include a Gold Medal Award in MSc, International Best Young Researcher Award by the the ISPAD in 2009, and National Best Young Researcher Award by the HEC in 2017.
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Assistant professor of political theory at the University of Birmingham. I work in political theory, with a specical focus on social critique and theories of racism and racialization in the North Atlantic. I hold a DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford, where I was an Examination Fellow at All Souls College and a Rhodes Scholar.
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Maranda Esterhuizen (PhD) is an adjunct professor of Ecotoxicology at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She was also awarded the title of adjunct professor from the University of Manitoba, Canada in 2021. Her research focuses on understanding the environmental risk and adverse effects of emerging pollutants in aquatic ecosystems. In addition to identifying and investigating the impact and toxicity mechanism of hazards, she develops bioremediation technologies to overcome these environmental issues.
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Geographer, post-doctoral researcher in Decarbon-Home research consortium at the University of Helsinki and the president of the Geographical Society of Finland. PhD 2015 University of Oulu, MSc 2006 University of Turku, Visiting researcher at Aalborg University 2019-2022 and University of Exeter 2010. Researching identities, climate attitudes and perceptions, regions, geographies of time and connections and disconnections in aeromobilities and islands. Worked also in state regional administration on strategy and forecasting.
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Nicola Gale, MA, PhD, is a Professor of Health Policy and Sociology working in the fields of health services research, public health, primary care, community-led and complementary health care. Professor Gale is committed to theoretically-informed empirical work that involves, aids better understanding of, and meets the needs of a diverse population. She specialises in interdisciplinary research and qualitative methods. She is currently Head of the School of Social Policy, and Co-Director of Confronting Antimicrobial Resistance (CARe) theme in the Institute for Global Innovation.
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Associate Professor, Department of Economics, and Co-Director of UVA-CLEAR (Corruption Lab for Ethics, Accountability, and Rule of Law) at the University of Virginia. Research interests: development economics, political economy, and public economics. Co-editor of Journal of Public Economics; affiliate of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) and Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL); board member DIGIFI Africa and Social Protection initiatives at J-PAL. PhD, Harvard University, 2009; BA, Swarthmore College, 2000.
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Dr Delphine Labbé in an assistant professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago in Disability and Human Development. Her work focus on promoting full participation and health of people living with disabilities by optimizing their interaction with the social and physical environment. She is deeply committed to co-construct knowledge and interventions with people with disabilities and with relevant stakeholders (e.g. urban planners, health care professionals) to produce policy and social changes.
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Dr Song Sopheak is the Deputy Executive Director in charge of research at CDRI. Prior to this current position, he had been with CDRI’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation since 2016, first as the research fellow and then the director between 2020 and 2022. His international experience in research career includes fellowships at the Global Career Design Center of Hiroshima University, Japan; at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, Australia; and at the Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Switzerland.
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Mr Veung Naron has joined CDRI as a PhD scholarship awardee under the r4d programme’s project “Skills for Industry”, focusing on the garment, food processing and electrical and electronic sector since mid-2018. He has been involved in various firm-level surveys and qualitative interviews. He has also gained more than 10 years of extensive experience working in Cambodia’s TVET sector. He is currently doing his PhD degree at Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia. In 2015, he obtained his master's degree in International Development from GSID of Nagoya University.