I am a communications specialist based in Abuja, Nigeria, with the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) is a private sector-led think-tank and policy advocacy group based in Nigeria. The NESG promotes sustainable growth and the development of the Nigerian economy. It is a non profit, non-partisan and apolitical organization.

Dr Lucy Michael is a sociologist in practice and consultant on equality and integration issues. Her work particularly addresses racist discrimination and violence, experiences of victims, and the roles of statutory institutions and civil society in combating hate crime and exclusion. She is author (with Bryan Fanning) of Immigrants as Outsiders in the Two Irelands (MUP, 2019), and (with Samantha Schulz) of Unsettling Whiteness (Brill, 2019). She is also a Commission Member on the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. Dr Michael has conducted research with a wide range of public and private sector bodies including the International Organisation for Migration, UK Home Office and European Network Against Racism. She is co-author with INAR of the iReport.ie racist incident reporting system used to map racism in Ireland. She holds a Bachelor of Civil Law degree from University College Dublin, and MA in Criminology and Research Methods and PhD from Keele University. She previously held lecturing posts at Ulster University and University of Hull, and is a former President of the Sociological Association of Ireland.

Liz McClintock, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Bridgeway Group. Liz has over 25 years of experience offering consulting services to and designing and implementing negotiation, conflict management, and leadership training programs for both public and private sector organizations around the world. Liz’s work is focused on conflict and post-conflict environments, with both public and private sector organizations.In her work, Liz has advised the US government and various United Nations units, including the Office of the Special Adviser of the Secretary General to Burundi, on preparation for and conduct of negotiation and dialogue processes. Liz has supervised multi-year projects in Burundi, Timor-Leste and Liberia. She currently manages a multi-country capacity building program for the World Health Organization, helping member states to manage multisectoral collaboration efforts more effectively to combat antimicrobial resistance. Past work with WHO has resulted in a series of publications, including the book Negotiating Public Health in a Globalized World: Global Health Diplomacy in Action, with co-authors, D. Fairman, D. Chigas, and N. Drager (Springer 2012) Liz is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Negotiations at The Fletcher School (Tufts University). Liz earned an A.B. at Dartmouth College and received an MALD and a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. She is a proud Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Morocco).

Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld is professor in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Learning and Design, Aalborg University. Ph.D. from Roskilde University and former Dean, The Faculty of Humanities, Aalborg University (AAU). Main field of research is networked learning, human-centered design, implementation of ICT and learning in organisations, and ICT for development. Currently, she is engaged in research capacity development projects in Northern Uganda on Transforming Education, and on Green Charcoal Inclusive Innovation. Has authored and co-authored several books, papers, articles, and reports. Please have a look at https://vbn.aau.dk/en/persons/100287/publications/ L., Hodgson, V., & McConnell, D. (Eds.) (2012). Exploring the Theory, Pedagogy and Practice of Networked Learning. New York: Springer Science+Business Media, 318 p.