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Nándor PETROVICS works as an assistant lecturer at the Department of Public Policy and Management at the Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary), teaching courses both in English and in Hungarian for public policy and management master students in public policy analysis, cost-benefit analysis, program evaluation, and multi-level governance.
He is a doctoral student at the Doctoral School of Political Science and International Relations. His doctoral research focuses on governance networks in night-time economies, but his area of interest also covers public service co-production and other questions of network governance.
Nándor also has significant consultancy experience in different areas of public policy analysis and cost-benefit analysis for public investment projects.
Research topics: Governance Networks; Urban Governance; Network Governance; Public Service Co-Production; Night Studies; Night-Time Economy; Night-Time Governance; Public Policy Analysis; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Program Evaluation
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Consultant with FTI Consulting. Several years of international experience working on issues in financial markets, public policy and development. Currently working on professional projects related to building a sustainable and accessible financial system in developing economies. Also interested in urban planning, connectivity and infrastructure. Graduate of the University of Oxford (MSc, Department of International Development) and the University of St Andrews (MA Hons, School of International Relations and Modern Languages).
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ICT for Development, especially generally accessible ICT, mobile technology for development; see the international conference series M4D arranged with various universities, in particular in Africa.
Another area is usable privacy, i.e. usability questions around privacy-enhancing technologies and accountability for cloud computing.
IT support for crisis management exercising. A special focus on the asynchronous question: how can exercises across organisational boundaries be facilitated with anywhere-anytime technology without killing the very essence of inter-organisational training exercises, namely mutually understanding and rapid interplay?
Methodological support within the area of Human-Computer Interaction. When the task is to find appropriate user interfaces for interactive systems yet on their planning stage, how should one go about to understand how users will understand a system?
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Policy, research and advocacy specialist supporting the Secretariat of the Lancet/Financial Times Commission Governing Health Futures 2030: Growing up in a digital world.
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I am an associate professor in education policy at the School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. After receiving a Ph.D. in higher education from the Pennsylvania State University, I worked at multiple international organizations including the OECD, UNESCO GEM Report, and UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning before relocating back to China in 2021. My current research focuses on secondary education policies and reforms in China, school tracking policies, and principal leadership.
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I am a Senior Researcher in Business Law at the Department of Business and Law (University of Siena) where I teach Business Law and Corporate Insolvency Law. I graduated in law at the University of Perugia, and I hold a Ph.D. in Banking and Financial Market Law at the University of Siena, where I then worked as a Research fellow in Business Law. I have recently obtained the National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor in Business Law. My researches mainly focus on company and banking law (with a special attention to company directors’ duties and to cooperative banks); the law and regulation of financial contracts and collective investment schemes; corporate insolvency law. I also have a a strong interest in legal history, sociology, and anthropology. My most recent researches regard the restructuring of distressed venture capital-backed start-ups and the international regulation of SPACs (Special Purpose Acquisition Companies) as an alternative way of capital raising and listing of innovative growth-stage firms.
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I am currently an associate professor working at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. My research interests involves inclusive design and policy.
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Economist and Professor at LMU Munich. Uwe Sunde is full professor of economics at the University of Munich (LMU), where he holds the chair of population economics. He obtained his PhD in economics from the University of Bonn and has taught at the University of St.Gallen before joining LMU Munich. Uwe Sunde is research professor at ifo, Munich and DIW, Berlin, and a fellow of the Center of Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, and of the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn. Uwe Sunde has made theoretical and empirical contributions in the field of economic growth and long-run development, population economics, labor economics, political economy, and behavioral economics.
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Ulf Rinne is a labor economist who works at IZA - Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn, Germany. His research interests are in various fields of empirical labor economics and applied microeconometrics. He is particularly interested in the evaluation of labor policies, in the design of immigration policies, in research on discrimination, and in the consequences of technological change and digitalization on the labor market.
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My name is Britta Rude. I'm a PhD student in Economics at LMU , a Junior Economist at iFO Institute , and a Consultant at The World Bank. I am a graduate of the Regional Academy on the United Nations 2021, together with UNHCR. I have 3 years of work experience at the World Bank. My main expertise lies in development economics. I have analyzed the drivers and consequences of poverty and inequality in different low-income countries, and have worked in gender, migration, as well as early childhood development economics.