I hold a PhD in Psychology and work as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town. My research areas include work on gender (masculinities and fatherhood), precarious labour (day labour and domestic work), family, race, and violence.

Evan Grégoire is a dual Ph.D. candidate specializing in political theory at Columbia University and Sciences Po, working with Nadia Urbinati (Columbia) and Bernard Reber (Sciences Po). His dissertation seeks to answer the question, “under what conditions can deliberation work?" paying particular attention to the collegial and deliberative governance of professional service firms. Evan Grégoire is a 2022-2023 Fulbright recipient. Prior to enrolling at Columbia, Mr. Grégoire received four master’s degrees with distinction from the École Normale Supérieure Ulm (in philosophy, with a concentration in contemporary philosophy), Paris Sciences et Lettres, Sciences Po (in political science, with a concentration in political theory) and HEC Paris (in management, with a concentration in sustainability and social innovation). He was a visiting student at Scuola Superiori Sant’Anna (Italy), Scuola di Studi Superiori "Ferdinando Rossi"(Italy), and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). As part of his Ph.D., Mr. Grégoire taught courses in political science and management both at Sciences Po and Columbia University and participated in the grading of graduate-level exams (notably, at the School of Management and Impact, the Paris School of International Affairs and Columbia School of Professional Studies). Mr. Grégoire is a French citizen with fluency and international work experience in English and French. He also worked for leading companies including Mazars (the largest French consultancy) and Carrefour (the largest European food retailer), as well as top universities including the University of Bristol and ESCP Business School and international organisations (UNESCO). He speaks fluent French and Spanish which helped him conduct foresight analysis, write policy briefs and recommendations, as well as lead stakeholder engagement tasks.

Jon Einar Flatnes is an applied development economist and Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. He holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural & Resource Economics from the University of California, Davis, USA. His area of expertise is poverty, resilience, and climate adaptation among poor and vulnerable populations, and his research to date has focused on understanding how innovative financial products, such as microfinance and insurance contracts, can help mitigate risk and improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.

Research Fellow at GLOBSEC´s Centre for Democracy and Resilience SJD in Comparative Constitutional Law from Central European University in Budapest. Area of research expertise: strategic communication, information operations, freedom of speech, data protection and metaverse.