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Dr. Daniel J. Rogers is the Co-founder and Executive Director of The Global Disinformation Index. Prior to founding GDI, he founded and led Terbium Labs, an information security and dark web intelligence startup and before that worked in the US Intelligence Community. Dr. Rogers also serves as an Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs and is a Security Fellow of the Truman National Security Project.
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His Excellency Prof. Dr. Ambassador Tal Edgars is Group Executive Chairman of GBSH Consult Group Worldwide, Chairman of the National Master Plan Task team in South Africa in Social Entrepreneurship and Social Development.
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Sheelah Connolly is a Senior Research Officer at Economic and Social Research Institute, Ireland. She has an MSc in Health Economics from the University of York (England) and a PhD in Public Health from Queens University Belfast. Her research interests include the social and economic determinates of health and the operation of health systems. For the past eight years, she has worked and led on a body of working examining health system reform in Ireland.
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Lakmini Fernando is a Research Economist at the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka with primary areas of research interest in public finance, economic development, climate change and environmental economics.
Lakmini holds a BSc in Agriculture from the University of Peradeniya, a Master of Development Economics (Advanced) from the University of Queensland, Australia and a PhD in Economics from the University of Adelaide, Australia.
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Dr. Christian Busch is the bestselling author of The Serendipity Mindset: The Art & Science of Creating Good Luck – “a wise, exciting, and life-changing book” (Arianna Huffington) that provides “excellent practical guidance for all” (Paul Polman, former CEO, Unilever) – and an internationally known expert in the areas of innovation, purpose-driven leadership, and serendipity. He is the director of the CGA Global Economy Program at New York University (NYU), and also teaches at the London School of Economics (LSE). He is a cofounder of Leaders on Purpose and the Sandbox Network, and a former director of LSE's Innovation Lab. His work has been featured by outlets such as the Strategic Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, The Guardian, Washington Post, and the BBC. He is a regular speaker at conferences such as the World Economic Forum, TEDx, and Financial Times Summit, and is a member of the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Expert Forum, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and on the Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 thinkers "most likely to shape the future." Twitter: @ChrisSerendip.
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I am a PhD student at the Paris School of Economics and University of Namur. I am interested in exploring the development of education in different countries. I am currently working on China and India, and plan to expand the study to other parts of the world in near future.
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Ros McLellan is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. She is a psychologist with a background in secondary teaching in the UK. Her research interests are primarily in wellbeing, with projects including collaborative research in Kazakhstan and UK projects examining the impact of creative partnerships on young people’s wellbeing in school, and young people’s wellbeing over transition from primary to secondary school. In addition to wellbeing, her research interests include teacher learning and development, achievement motivation, gender, and creativity.
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Stéphane Mahuteau is an Associate Professor of Economics, Senior Researcher and Co-director of the Future of Employment and Skills research centre (FES) at the University of Adelaide. Prior to this appointment he was the Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute of Labour Studies (NILS) at Flinders University. Stéphane is a leading expert in the design, development and implementation of Impact Evaluations. His research interests in Economics are in Labour Economics, Education Economics, Immigration, Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics, Skills development and utilisation.
He has been extensively involved in a range of government commissioned research projects that he has led or contributed to, and that have influenced policy design and evaluation in a range of government priority areas. Among recent projects he was one of the main authors of the Evaluation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), the Evaluation of the Cashless Debit Card (CDC), and the Evaluation of the National Disability Data Asset looking at the educational and early labour market outcomes of young adults with disabilities (SA test case). He contributed to the first Gonski review of School Funding in Australia.
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I am a senior research associate at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. I have 16 years of experience in education research, capacity building and monitoring and evaluation of teacher education programs in Kazakhstan and Ukraine.
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Noriko Amano-Patiño is an Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge. Her research primarily focuses on understanding the sources and implications of different dimensions of inequality across genders and racial groups. Prior to joining the faculty of Economics at Cambridge, she obtained her Ph.D. at Yale University in 2018, where she specialized in the fields of Labor Economics and Applied Econometrics.