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Angela Muvumba Sellström is a Senior Researcher with expertise on wartime sexual violence prevention; international interventions and mediation; gender, women, peace and security; and the UN Security Council and the role of non-permanent members.
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I am a Senior Lecturer in Computing at the Open University. I have led the development of several digital skills-related online resources including the "Digital Thinking Tools" badged open course and the OpenLearn resource "Introduction to Computational Thinking". I'm leading a collaborative project (Open University, Cambridge, Sheffield and Toshiba) entitled "Opening Up Minds: engaging dialogue generated from argument maps" and have investigated the use of online argument mapping activities for the development of critical thinking skills. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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Mike is an assistant professor of public finance in the School of Public Policy at University College London (UCL) with research focused on the links between macroeconomics, finance, accounting, and political science. Specifically, these include taxation, budgeting, fiscal performance, public sector accounting and accountability, balance sheet analysis (financial linkages), and technological innovations in the public sector (cryptocurrency and democratic/collective choice mechanisms). For the past ten years, Mike has worked as an expert for several international organizations (currently a short term expert at the IMF, World Bank and UN) and private sector firms to improve financial literacy, debt management, fiscal transparency, and compliance with international standards in central banks, ministries of finance and commercial banks in over sixty countries worldwide. Previously, Mike worked as an economist at the International Monetary Fund (2011-2015) and completed his PhD from the London School of Economics in 2012.
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I am Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and in the Social Research Institute at University College London; and Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and at IZA Bonn. I am also Associate Editor at the Journal of Health Economics (the top journal in health economics), Trustee at the Foundation Years Information and Research, and scientific adviser of the Lancet Commission for Gender-Based Violence and Maltreatment of Young People.
My research areas of interest are health economics, the economics of human development, and biology and economics. My research draws on both the biomedical and the social sciences with the aim of understanding the developmental origins of health inequalities, the role of child development as input in the production of lifecycle health and the behavioral and biological pathways through which early life shocks, investments and policies affect well-being throughout the lifecourse. I often use novel sources of data, such as biomarkers (ranging from fetal ultrasound scans to genetic markers), combined with linked administrative records and survey data. I have studied several interventions, such as the iconic Perry Preschool, Abecedarian and Nurse Family Partnership programs in the United States; and large-scale programmes such as Sure Start, the Family Nurse Partnership and Universal Health Visiting in England, and Seguro Popular in Mexico. Most of my work focuses on US and UK, however I have also worked on LMICs such as Colombia, India, Mexico and more recently Ecuador.
I have published on this topic in top journals in different disciplines, such as Science, PNAS, Pediatrics, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Econometrics and Lancet. My research has been supported among others by the NIH, H2020, ERC, Nuffield Foundation, Health Foundation, British Academy. My work has been mentioned among others in the New York Times, Financial Times, The Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and discussed in the British Parliament.
In 2019 I was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Economics (for my project on “Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Universal Health Visiting in UK”), which “recognises the achievement of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising”; and the Nick Hales Award from the DOHaD society, for a “young and emerging investigator who has made an outstanding scientific contribution to the DOHaD field”. I am also the PI of a 5-year ERC Consolidator Award from the European Research Council (SH1 Economics Panel) for my project “The Developmental Origins of Health: Biology, Shocks, Investments, and Policies”. I rank among the top 3% Female Economists, Last 10 Years Publications, and the top 5% Economists, Last 10 Years Publications – only considering my publications in economics.
I hold a PhD in Economics from the University of Essex. Prior to joining UCL, I was a Post-Doctoral Scholar (under the mentorship of Nobel Prize Winner James Heckman) and then an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago.
My research areas of interest are health economics, the economics of human development, and biology and economics. My research draws on both the biomedical and the social sciences with the aim of understanding the developmental origins of health inequalities, the role of child development as input in the production of lifecycle health and the behavioral and biological pathways through which early life shocks, investments and policies affect well-being throughout the lifecourse. I often use novel sources of data, such as biomarkers (ranging from fetal ultrasound scans to genetic markers), combined with linked administrative records and survey data. I have studied several interventions, such as the iconic Perry Preschool, Abecedarian and Nurse Family Partnership programs in the United States; and large-scale programmes such as Sure Start, the Family Nurse Partnership and Universal Health Visiting in England, and Seguro Popular in Mexico. Most of my work focuses on US and UK, however I have also worked on LMICs such as Colombia, India, Mexico and more recently Ecuador.
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Public health nutritionist. Researcher.
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Associate Professor at UCL, Research Fellow at IFS, IZA and CEPR
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Research on regionalisation, IMC
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Research Associate at J-PAL SEA.
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Jihyun Kwon is a PhD candidate in Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. She is also a Vanier CGS scholar, a recipient of the Delta Kappa Gamma World Fellowship, and Richard Ericson Paper Award. She is currently appointed as a Visiting Scholar at the Asia Center, Seoul National University. Her research focuses on accountability, oversight, and administrative governance of law enforcement agencies. She examines the structural and functional dynamics that lead to various degrees of coordination and fragmentation among different state oversight entities. She also specializes in policy reforms related to the SDG16, such as access to justice, protecting human rights and eliminating discrimination, reporting of corruption and victimization, and independent national institutions. She has extensive knowledge of policing, corrections (prison), complaint and accountability procedures, dispute resolution, and bureaucratic governance.
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PhD Researcher