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Tabea is co-head of the Science Team at Climate Analytics and leads the team’s work on climate change adaptation, vulnerability, and risk. Her work focusses on improving quantitative representations of adaptation and adaptation effectiveness, with a focus on how adaptation effectiveness might change with increasing warming.
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Director of the Clean Economy programme in E3G, a Climate Politics Think Tank. My main interests are in the political economy of moving the global economy to a cleaner, more inclusive, future. Now based in Ireland, with a team across Europe and the US, my previous experience was in strategy and economics in the UK public and energy sectors.
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Professor of the Practice Urban Studies and Planning. Urban Management and Development Program, Universidad del Rosario. IADB and WB Consultant on local development programs & Housing policies (Washington DC), Visiting professional Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (Cambridge, MA). Current research agenda: Informal urban development
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For the last 17 years, I have been a Professor at the Intercultural Indigenous Diplomacy School (EIDI) at Rosario University, which is dedicated to proposing educational activities in indigenous communities in Colombia. I founded this participatory, intercultural and intersectional academic space when I first joined the University with a group of colleagues, aiming at the decentralization and democratization of the production of knowledge.
More than 6500 indigenous people (including 2000 indigenous women) have participated in the diplomas offered by EIDI.
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Senior Analyst in the Polish Institute of International Affairs on Ukraine in Eastern Europe Programme.
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My work focuses on the socio-technical and cultural dimensions of natural resources, challenging the notion that these resources are inherently natural. The processes of investing in and divesting from raw materials have always been driven by people's pursuit of both financial and non-financial values. Drawing from relational economic geography and cultural anthropology, I use an interdisciplinary, whole-system approach to analyze the political ecology of global value chains, particularly concerning sustainability issues ranging from energy to ESG.
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Dr. Koustab Majumdar presently associated with Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute (RKMVERI) and Visiting Scholar (Post-Doc) of International Center of Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Taiwan. Dr. Majumdar is the recipient of the Taiwan Fellowship (2023) granted by Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), China (Taiwan). His key research focuses on rural transformation, indigenous studies, indigenous social welfare policy, international social work and well-being studies.
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Harris Zainul is a public policy analyst with the Institute of Strategic and International Studies Malaysia. There, he works on the intersection of technology, society and human rights, with a focus on the consequences of mis- and disinformation on democracy and politics. His work has been featured by the World Economic Forum, Financial Times, CNBC, Al Jazeera and the South China Morning Post, among others. He holds a postgraduate degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies where he read Southeast Asian politics and an undergraduate degree in law from the University of Liverpool.
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I am a Research Officer from ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore. Under the Regional Social & Cultural Studies Programme, I am interested in the intersection between East Asian and Southeast Asian media, culture and history.
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Nicole Kalms is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture founding director of the Monash University XYX Lab which leads national and international research in Gender and Place. The innovation of Kalms’ research repositions design as a strategic tool for challenging gender inequity. Her recent research has focused on public transport spaces for women and girls, gender-sensitive CPTED and the use of participatory co-design to challenge gender-neutral urban policy.