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Public policy scholar of science and innovation policy, with a particular focus on the role and impact of new technology in the global agrifood system.
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Senior Lecturer in International Politics, City, University of London. Specialist on NGOs, social movements, internationalism and transnational history.
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Zainab serves as the youth engagement lead at the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, a think tank focused on African governance and leadership. She is charged with the Foundation’s youth initiative, Now Generation Network – a coalition of young and mid-career Africans committed to moving the continent’s development agenda forward. Previously she was the organisation lead for communications: traditional, online and broadcast media relations, social media dissemination and stakeholder engagement.
Prior to this role, Zainab worked on the Foundation’s data project, the Ibrahim Index of African Governance, and research projects co-authoring several governance-focused publications.
Before joining the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, Zainab worked at the Africa Advocacy Foundation, a charity dedicated to improving health outcomes for disadvantaged communities.
Zainab began her professional career in local government working for public libraries across London, where she developed good relationships and engaged in partnership projects with national and regional agencies like the National Literacy Trust, Booktrust and the Reading Agency.
Zainab is currently a Trustee at Book Aid International and also sits on the Steering Committee for the African Youth Network Movement, incubated by the Mandela Institute for Development Studies.
Zainab has a significant PR and reputation management experience across multiple markets and is a recipient of the 2020 Gold SABRE awards for a public relations campaign. She holds an MA in Public Service Management and a BA in International Relations from London Metropolitan University.
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Camilla Rocca is Head of Research at the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, where she leads on the Foundation’s analysis and publications on African governance. Her main interest is the African political, economic and social landscape, with a focus on the nexus between fragility, development and state-society relations. She has worked extensively on these issues as independent analyst as well as political officer for the European Union in Central Africa. With a background in International Relations, she holds two MAs from the College of Europe and the University of Padua, and professional certifications including in political analysis and mediation.
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Abu Shonchoy is an associate professor of economics at Florida International University. His research interests concentrate around financial inclusion, skills training, infrastructure, and education, with several ongoing evaluations in South Asia and West Africa. In addition to his academic work, Abu is the founder and chief advisor of MOMODa Foundation, a research-based NGO working with marginalized populations in Bangladesh. Abu received his PhD in economics from the University of New South Wales.
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I am currently employed in a PhD position at Aalborg Centre for Problem Based Learning in Engineering, Science and Sustainability under the auspices of UNESCO. I hold a M.Sc. degree from Aalborg University, and has for the last two years been a part of the Aalborg PBL Centre with a specific focus on teaching and research. My main interests are on complexity and interdisciplinary collaboration in PBL environments, developing new approaches and methods for students to progress and transfer disciplinary PBL competences to complex interdisciplinary settings.
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B. Sebastian Reiche is Professor of Managing People in Organizations and Associate Director of Faculty at IESE Business School, Spain. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Prof. Reiche’s research focuses on international assignments and forms of global work, knowledge transfer, talent retention, culture and language in global organizations, and global leadership. He has received several research awards from the prestigious Academy of Management, including the Barry Richman Best Dissertation Finalist Award and the International HRM Scholarly Research Award in two consecutive years, as well as the Journal of International Business Silver Medal for his contributions to international business research. Prof. Reiche regularly blogs on the topic of global work (https://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus/).
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Dr. Valeria Sinclair-Chapman is professor of political science at Purdue University. She has more than two decades of experience in work dedicated to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education. In addition to facilitating small group discussions and offering workshops and trainings, Sinclair-Chapman develops innovative approaches to transformational change including the use of imagination, (un)conferences to diversity STEM hiring. She and her partners at Purdue are currently exploring the use of efficiency tools to focus, assess, and adjust DEI activities for concrete, enduring, and meaningful change. Sinclair-Chapman is the author or coauthor of numerous articles and an award-winning book, and active in the discipline of political science.
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Jeroen Neckebrouck is entrepreneurship professor at IESE Business School. He is an expert in the governance of privately held entrepreneurial firms, with a particular interest in family firms and private equity.
His research has been published in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Venture Capital and the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, and has been presented at several international conferences.
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Ayelet Shachar (FRSC) is the R.F. Harney Chair and Director of Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies at the University of Toronto, where she is Professor of Law, Political Science and Global Affairs. Previously, she was a scientific member of the Max Planck Society—one of the foremost research organizations in the world—and Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Shachar has published extensively on citizenship theory, immigration law, cultural diversity and women’s rights, new border regimes and global inequality, as well as the marketization of citizenship. She is an award-winning author and the recipient of national and international excellence awards in four different countries, most recently, the 2019 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize—Germany’s most prestigious research award.