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Taanishii, I'm Métis from Lac Pelletier, Saskatchewan, Canada. I am an assistant professor in Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia in Syilx Territory in the Okanagan. I teach about the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and am interested in international Indigenous organizing and advocating for and protecting Indigenous Rights.
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Christoph S. Weber is an economist who finished his PhD in economics in the year 2017 at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg.
He was a doctoral student of the Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics.
He also studied one semester at the Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy) during his undergraduate studies.
He had several stays abroad during his time at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. For instance, he taught courses in Chile (University of Santiago), Mexico (University of Guadalajara and Autonomous University of Baja California), Turkey (Istanbul Bilgi University and Yildiz Technical University) and South Africa (University of KwaZulu-Natal). Furthermore, he served as the coordinator of an international Master programme (MA Development Economics and International Studies).
His research areas are macroeconomics, monetary economics, and applied econometrics. He published articles in the Journal of International Money and Finance and Empirical Economics.
He joined ESSCA in October 2019 where he works as an associate professor at the Department International Studies and Business.
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Lazar Ivanović is an Economist working at the Center for Advanced Economic Studies (CEVES). His principal professional interests include fiscal policy, industrial policy, and labor market in the context of economic development.
Lazar started his career as an Advisory intern at the consulting company Crowe RS. There he assisted and participated in corporate finance projects, including mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, financial modeling, and valuation. Subsequently, Lazar worked as an intern at the Institute of Economic Sciences (IEN) where he had the opportunity to write his first scientific paper “Analysis of the main macroeconomic indicators in the function of stability of Western Balkan countries” which was published by IEN.
Lazar holds a Master’s degree in International Economics from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Belgrade and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Belgrade. In addition, Lazar holds a C2 level certificate in Advanced English from the Cambridge Assessment English.
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I am a qualified and experienced Board Chair and Director who has worked in complex, multi-territorial environments. Amongst other positions, I have been Chair of the World Health Organisation’s Independent Expert Oversight Advisory Committee, Vice-Chair of the Board of Fairtrade International, and served on the ILO’s Independent Oversight Committee, and the Global Fund’s Audit and Ethics committee.
My wide range of executive positions include Director for Business Partnerships at UNDP, New York, CEO of the World Heart Federation, Adjunct Professor and Executive Director of the International MBA at the University of Geneva, and CEO of Africa’s largest chamber of commerce and industry. I was also New Zealand Honorary Consul in South Africa.
I have a doctorate in international relations from Oxford where I was President of the Oxford Union. I hold the Financial Times Non-Executive Director Post-Graduate Diploma, Certificate in International Enterprise Risk Management, and Certificate in Digital and Cybersecurity Management. I live in Aotearoa New Zealand, having previously lived in Switzerland, Germany, Nigeria, Samoa, Sri Lanka, South Africa, UK and US.
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Deniz Koca is an Assist. Prof. at Lund University, Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC). He holds a Ph.D. in Geobiosphere Science, M.Sc. in Environmental Studies & Sustainability Science, and B.Sc. in Environmental Engineering.
His main expertise lies in applied systems analysis, system dynamics modelling and facilitation of stakeholder participatory group modelling process.
He has been involved in various transdisciplinary research projects with the main task of analyzing, interpreting, modelling, simulating and communicating alternative scenarios of complex dynamic environmental and socio-economic issues with a systems approach and within the sustainability criteria. Deniz has been teaching systems analysis and system dynamics modelling courses on undergraduate, gradute and post-graduate levels.
Since 2017, Deniz is the Coordinator and Director of Studies of BIOECONOMY Graduate Research School within the CEC. He is also the chairperson of Lund University Food Faculty, a collaboration initiative across all faculties at Lund University.
He is a Donella Meadows Fellow and member of the Balaton Group, also known as the International Network of Resource Information Centers (INRIC).
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Alana Cattapan is the Canada Research Chair in the Politics of Reproduction and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. Her research examines gendered inclusion in policy making, identifying links between the state, the commercialization of the body, and reproductive labour including the governance of reproduction and reproductive technologies.
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Associate Professor with a joint position in Africana Studies Institute and the Department of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. Director of Research on Resilient Cities, Racism, and Equity at UConn Hartford.
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Ramona Kyabaggu is an epidemiologist and certified Health Information Management (CHIM) professional who works as assistant professor at Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (University of Regina), where she coordinates the Master of Health Administration major in Health Informatics and Information Management (MHA-HIIM).
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I am a lecturer in political science at Washington University in St. Louis. My research focuses on human rights broadly and migration/immigration, human trafficking, and citizenship more specifically. I am especially interested in the sources of vulnerability (poverty, environment, etc.) that force people to live precarious lives.
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Prof. Dr. Dipak Tatpuje has over 40 years of experience in the field of experiential education, project consulting, and research projects at national and International level by developing models for rural development through empowerment of youths. He completed more than 14 projects with national and international organizations like UNESCO-Bangkok, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Commonwealth Association of Science, Technology, and Mathematics Educators (CASTME-Asia), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. Visit: http://dipaktatpuje.blogspot.com/