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Dr. Tom McDowell is a Lecturer in the Department of Public Policy and Administration at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. He is was a lead author of Southern Ontario's Basic Income Experience and several articles on basic income. He is also author of Neoliberal Parliamentarism: The Decline of the Ontario Legislature (University of Toronto Press, 2021).
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Professor in Environmental- and Energy system. Most research about food waste and packaging, especially how packaging can be adapted to influence consumer behavior with regard to food waste in households.
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Policy editor, The New Humanitarian. Adjunct Professor, New York University, Wagner School of Public Service, “Accountability in Humanitarian Response,” Spring 2014-Present. Associate Professor, Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, “Accountability in Humanitarian Response,” Spring 2013-Present.
Jessica Alexander is a humanitarian aid professional with experience in operations, evaluation and policy. Her career includes global deployments spanning Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. She has conducted large scale evaluations, assessments and policy research for the UN, Red Cross and various NGOs on a range of humanitarian issues including: child protection, shelter, emergency education, coordination, accountability and humanitarian effectiveness. She has also overseen programming in Sudan, South Sudan and Haiti.
Jessica is two-time Fulbright grantee who received the award to research Japan’s approach to disaster risk reduction in 2019 and the use of child soldiers in Sierra Leone in 2006. She received a Master of Public Health and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University. She is an editor at The New Humanitarian and teaches humanitarian affairs at numerous global universities. She has authored policy papers and mainstream articles about the humanitarian sector and is the author of “Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid."
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My focus in the area of policy has its roots in public health issues, with particular emphasis on issues of injury and violence, as well as disaster preparedness, substance use disorders and public health systems and services. I have held academic appointments at Yale University in the School of Public Health and School of Medicine and was the director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the CDC and later the Executive Director of Defense Health Horizons, as well as spending a year working in the U.S. Senate. I am Past President of the American Public Health Association, Past President of the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research, and currently serve on the boards of several non-profit organizations. Currently, I am on the faculty of the Yale School of Public Health and also do consulting work in public health and injury and violence prevention.
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Diogo Pereira Henriques is a fellow at the Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University (Denmark). He has international experience in various institutions for urban futures, digital humanities and design, international networks, climate change, human-computer interaction, and participation (Barcelona, Bristol, Eindhoven, Lisbon, Newcastle, Rome, Hong Kong, Macau). Since 2019, he is a member of the editorial board, as social media editor, of the Nexus Network Journal, published by Birkhäuser/Springer.
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Dr Charmaine Ramos is a political economist who examines how configurations of power and politics regulate institutional performance and change, and ultimately patterns of economic development and the distribution of any resultant benefits. She builds on her previous research in Colombia and the Philippines, where she studied the role that producer associations played in determining the mobilization of taxes collected from key agri-export sectors. Aside from her continuing work on the political economy of resource governance, she is undertaking new trajectories of research, including: the political uses of social policy and their developmental consequences in the context of the current wave of 'new populism'; and institutional pathways to universal healthcare in the Global South.
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I'm a sociologist and PhD fellow working in between research and practice with techno-anthropological questions around the potentials and pitfalls of how digital technology and datafication of public life is influencing and changing how we make decisions about the future. I work especially in an urban context and urban planning industry.
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Juan C. Vasquez (IEEE SM 14) received the B.S. degree in electronics engineering from the UAM, Manizales, Colombia, and the Ph.D. degree in automatic control, robotics, and computer vision from BarcelonaTech-UPC, Spain, in 2004 and 2009, respectively. In 2019, He became Professor in Energy Internet and Microgrids and currently He is the Co-Director of the Villum Center for Research on Microgrids (see crom.et.aau.dk). He was a Visiting Scholar at the Center of Power Electronics Systems (CPES) at Virginia Tech, USA and a visiting professor at Ritsumeikan University, Japan. His current research interests include operation, cooperative control, optimization and energy management applied to Microgrids and the integration of Internet of Things and Energy Internet into the SmartGrid. Prof. Vasquez has been awarded as Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters since 2017, and He was the recipient of the Young Investigator Award 2019. He has published more than 460 journal papers in the field of Microgrids, which in total are cited more than 28000 times.
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Semegnish (Segma) Asfaw. She/her/hers.
A jurist by training, Segma has worked with the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) of the World Council of Churches (WCC) for more than 15 years.
She has a broad experience in researching, planning and coordinating international expert conferences, workshops, webinars on a wide range of human rights issues, including the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), protection of displaced civilians, genocide prevention, forced migration. She is currently particularly focusing on advocacy for the human rights of stateless people, as well as on racial justice issues, with a particular interest for Anti-Black racism as well as Afrophobia.
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I am a postdoctoral researcher at Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark. My research interests include household energy consumption, comfort, home, gender and smart technology.