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I am a Professor of Economics at New York University. I am an elected fellow of the Econometric Society and of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory. I am also fellow of the NBER, CESS at NYU, and the CEPR. I co-organize of the annual NBER Meeting on Culture and Institutions.
I hold a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, obtained in 1994. My main academic contributions are in the fields of Social Economics, Financial Economics, and Behavioral Economics. I have published widely in economics journals. I co-edited the Handbook of Social Economics and the Handbook of Historical Economics.
Finally, I am founding editor of noiseFromAmerika.org and contributed op-eds for the Italian newspapers La Stampa and La Repubblica.
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Sean Thomas-Breitfeld is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Service at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and co-directs the Building Movement Project, with a special focus on BMP’s work on service and social change.
Prior to joining the BMP staff, Thomas-Breitfeld spent a decade working in various roles at the Center for Community Change. At CCC, he developed training programs for grassroots leaders, worked in communications and policy departments where he coordinated online and grassroots advocacy efforts, and lobbied on a range of issues, including immigration reform, transportation equity and anti-poverty programs. Before joining the Center, Thomas-Breitfeld worked as a Policy Analyst at the National Council of La Raza, where he focused on employment and income security issues.
Thomas-Breitfeld received a B.A. in Social Work and Multicultural Studies from St. Olaf College and an M.P.A. from NYU Wagner.
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I am a student in political science (international politics), writing my masters thesis on European coordination in development cooperation through an analysis of several Team Europe Initiatives in sub-sahara Africa.
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I am an Assistant Professor in Economics at Aarhus University in Denmark and a Postdoc researcher at the University of Groningen. My research interests lie within Behavioural and Experimental Economics and Development Economics. I have worked on topics such as microcredit, microsavings, community-level health care provision, social norms, social preferences and the social integration of migrants.
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I am an applied labour economicst and I study structural factors underlying inequalities on the labour market with a focus on gender inequalities.
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Oseni Oluwatobi has worked extensively as a Learning Specialist driving digital equity in different Technology Education projects with the United Nations Educational Scientific Organization (UNESCO), GIZ( Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), Code.org, Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry(ACCI), Facebook and Microsoft Nigeria #Code2Earn training over 26,000 to Code in one of the most ambitious education projects.
He was recently a Policy Adviser on Technology and Education in the office of the Governor of Imo State in Nigeria.
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Prof. Piero Dominici (PhD), sociologist and philosopher, Fellow of the World Academy of Art & Science (WAAS), UN expert and invited speaker, is Scientific Director of the International Research and Education Programme CHAOS and Director (Scientific Listening) at the Global Listening Center; he teaches Public Communication, Sociology of Social Complexity and Intelligence at the University of Perugia. As scientific researcher, educator, author and international speaker, his main areas of expertise and interest encompass (hyper)complexity, interdisciplinarity and knowledge sharing in the fields of education, systems theory, technology, intelligence, security, citizenship and communication. Member of the MIUR Register of Revisers, (Italian Ministry of Higher Education and Research), and of the World Complexity Science Academy, he is also standing member of several of the most prestigious national and international scientific committees. Author of numerous essays, scientific articles and books.
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Programme Manager at UNESCO's New Delhi Cluster Office
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Argentine academic in the Netherlands, expert on local development. I offer a MOOC on local economic development. Interested in how theory - policy - practices are related
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I am an Assistant Professor in Conflict and Peace Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, Rotterdam. My research and teaching focuses broadly on the inter-connections of Governance, Development, Violent conflict and Peace(building). More specifically, I am interested in politics of war and peace, state building, trauma and psychosocial healing in post-war contexts, war economy, dynamics and challenges in post-war transitions, security sector reform in post-war scenarios, civil-military Relations, external interventions in fragile and conflict areas, visual peace research, nexus of media and violent conflict and gender and security.
South Asia and Sri Lanka are my main geographical areas of specialization, but I have developed thematic expertise on conflict and peace in other geographical areas as well.