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Dimitri is a Civic Planning & Design Manager at the Center for Disability & Racial Justice. He is a trained urban planner/designer interested in climate adaptation, inclusive space design, and reparative planning through engagement on urban issues. He actively develops design frameworks and processes aimed at improving access for minoritized communities and has contributed to forming novel approaches to participatory and emancipatory knowledge mobilization for the disability community. He holds graduate planning and design degrees from the University of Illinois-Chicago.
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I'm the Scientific Director of Pandemic Prevention Institute @ The Rockefeller Foundation. In this capacity, I am leading a team of transdisciplinary researchers to shape, develop and coordinate integrative research into how data-driven modeling can end current and prevent future pandemics. I am building a transdisciplinary research program that leverages mathematical and computational modeling, machine learning, and data science to identify the eco-evolutionary, demographic, and environmental drivers of pathogen emergence, persistence, and spread.
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MA, MPH. Doctoral Student, Indiana University School of Public Health
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Prof. Dr. Michael Opielka is Scientific Director of the ISÖ - Institute for Social Ecology in Siegburg and Professor of Social Policy at the Ernst-Abbe-University of Jena. From 2012 to 2016 he also headed the IZT - Institute for Future Studies and Technology Assessment in Berlin. 2015 Guest Professor for Social Sustainability at the University of Leipzig. Visiting Scholar UC Berkeley (1990-1, 2005-6). Doctorate (HU Berlin 1996) and Habilitation (Univ. Hamburg 2008) in Sociology.
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Peter Gluckman is the President of the International Science Council. He is an internationally recognized biomedical scientist, and currently heads Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures at the University of Auckland.
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My name is Amirreza Asnafi. I have a doctorate in librarianship from Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz in Iran. My field of specialization and study is scientometrics, archival studies, social media. I was the director of public relations for three years, and the head of the library department at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran for six years. For seven months now, I have been a research associate dean at the Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran.
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social anthropologist, Charles University Prague
Barbora Spalová studied ethnology and social anthropology in Prague. She does research in the field of anthropology of religion, particularly anthropology of Christianity. She is also involved in border studies and memory studies. She lives in the Czech-Polish-German borderland. She is the editor-in-chief of Biograf, journal of qualitative research.
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Carlos Godoy earned his JD from UC Berkeley in 1998 and his PhD from USC Annenberg in 2007. He has served as a public policy consultant for the Institute of Medicine assessing the state of science on the health status of LGBT populations. Specifically, Professor Godoy examined the impact of the internet on the health of LGBT people; the opportunities that new technology provides to conduct innovative research with LGBT populations, especially hard to reach groups. He is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.
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International Social Development Expert and Programme /Project Management Professional specialised in systems thinking for holistic interventions and integrated programming that promotes and derives comprehensive services and outcomes for the most vulnerable and marginalised population groups. 25 years' experience in social development programming, strategy development and planning, policy advocacy, development, analysis and monitoring, developing guidelines and Capacity building tools, monitoring evaluation and reporting, research, vulnerability mapping and analysis.
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Victor Tan Chen is an associate professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University who studies economic inequality, labor markets, and participatory organizations. He is the author or coauthor of Organizational Imaginaries: Tempering Capitalism and Tending to Communities through Cooperatives and Collectivist Democracy (2021), Cut Loose: Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair Economy (2015), and The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America (2007). He has received the Joyce Rothschild Book Prize from Rutgers University and the John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award from LERA.