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Ana Garcia-Hernandez is a Policy and Research Manager at J-PAL Europe. Ana is working on the partnership with the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration in Spain and the Center for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI). The partnership aims to generate evidence through multiple randomised evaluations in Social Inclusion and use it to inform policymaking in Spain.
Ana holds a Ph.D. in Economics from NOVA SBE, an M.Sc. in Specialized Economic Analysis from Barcelona School of Economics, and a B.Sc. in Economics from Carlos III University.
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Dr. Alexandra Panman is a Lecturer in Urban Economics and Public Policy in the Bartlett School Development Planning Unit, University College London (UCL). Her research draws on both quantitative and qualitative methods to draw insights on living conditions in urban areas, evaluate the outcomes of policy changes, and explore the role that property rights (formal/informal and individual/collective) play in sustainable urban economic development.
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Dr. T.Y. Branch is a Postdoctoral Fellow (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Cologne Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition (CONCEPT) working on the project "Moral obligation, epistemology and public health: the case of vaccine hesitancy".
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Dr. Sheila Murphy is a Full Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. Trained in social psychology, Dr. Murphy specializes in identifying the individual, interpersonal, community, ethnic and cultural level factors that shape people’s knowledge, attitudes and practices. She is also an expert on the use of stories or narratives.
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Professor of Economics, and researcher at Corvinus University of Budapest
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Professor at University of Tasmania. Researching the political economy of sustainability from a coupled human and natural systems perspective
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Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis
Ph.D. International Development
Academic and professional interests in the comparative political economy of natural resource governance and development in emerging markets, particularly Southern and East Africa, and East Asia. Research interests in extractive natural resource governance, especially oil and gas, diamonds, and platinum; post-colonial state formation, political governance and institution-building, sustainable development, energy production, and the environment in Africa.
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Institutional affiliation: Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies, Czech Republic
Position: assistant professor
Highest level of education attained: PhD
Area of research expertise: labor market and flexible working regimes, labor market and work-family policy (in the perspective of different actors like state, employers, and families), eldercare and childcare policies, parental/maternity/paternity leave schemes, gender inequalities in the labor market
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Paul Akrofie has over 10 years of hands-on experience in the Creative Arts Sector,
and in Design Entrepreneurship in Africa. Currently at the British Council to deliver it's Creative Arts Programme in Ghana and across SSA.He led the implementation of the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers
"Shaping the Future of Fashion' project with Fashion Revolution on
Sustainable Fashion in Accra Ghana and as a local consulting partner with PUM.nl to facilitate its 'Making Africa Work' project. He’s served as a mentor for the MPS Fashion Management programe at the Parsons School of Design New York.
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Zdenek Uherek, social anthropologist and ethnologist, director of the English Master´s study programme Sociology of Contemporary Societies at Charles University; UNESCO–MOST programme member, a Czech Committee for the UNESCO member, Editor in Chief of the Cargo Journal for Cultural and Social Anthropology. The main subject of study is migration, Czech diasporas abroad, urban anthropology, and anthropology of Europe. He recently co-edited the Palgrave monographs Diversity and Local Contexts: Urban Space, Borders and Migration (2017) and Rethinking Ethnography in Central Europe (2015).