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Amanda studies Computer Science and Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College. She's invested in environmental justice and the transition to a just, sustainable, and biodiverse future. Amanda previously chaired the Environmental Students of Dartmouth and is the co-founder of Green2Go, which works toward a world free of plastic.
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Rachel Kurian is (retired) International Labour Economist at the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research, project and consultancy work deals with migration, human rights, poverty, gender, trade unions and social exclusion in the context of economic restructuring. She has initiated, acquired and led and participated in capacity-building projects in Asia, Africa and Europe, sponsored by key donors including DGIS, FNV, ICFTU, NUFFIC, African Development Bank, Justitia et Pax and the OECD). These projects have resulted in evaluations, professional reports, development of teaching curriculum for Universities and Civil Society Actors, Training of Ambassadors and Diplomats in The Hague. She has collaborated extensively and developed projects with the Municipality of The Hague for the last two decades, undertaken projects with DGIS and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and been a member of the Nationale Adviesraad voor Ontwikkelingssamenwerking. Her recent relevant publications include: “Politics of caste-based exclusion: Poverty Alleviation schemes in rural India (with Deepak Singh), in The Politics of Social Inclusion: Bridging Knowledge and Politics Towards Social Change Gabriele Koehler et al(eds), UNESCO, CROP and Ibidem, (2020:283-311); Academic Editor on Theme Inclusion through Enacted Citizenship in Urban Spaces and ‘Enacting Citizenship and the Right to the City: Towards Inclusion through Deepening Democracy?’ (with Helen Hintjens), ‘Enabling Social Inclusion and Urban Citizenship of Older Adults through eHealth: The iZi Project in the Hague’ (with N. Menke, S. Santokhi and E. Tak). Journal of Social Inclusion, Vol, No.4 (2019).
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I am Director of the Research Institute for Global Education at Coventry University, UK. My interests are in access and achievement of neurodivergent students and those with disabilities in education, higher education and employment.
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I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I have 30 years experience in higher education supporting, developing, researching and tutoring digital learning. I currently teach and research entirely online with postgraduates who are mainly teachers from around the world. These students are scattered across 4 continents. I am an expert in digital skills and online learning with an interest in global teaching practice and global learning competencies.
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Urban planner, practitioner and professor.
Teaches “Transforming the Urban Economy” and “Arts, the Artist and Urban Revitalization” at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
Chair-elect of the International Downtown Association (IDA) and the past co-chair of the NYC BID Association. President of the Times Square Alliance since 2002. Prior to joining the Alliance, he was the Founder and Director of Partnerships for Parks, which works to support New York City’s neighborhood parks and which won an Innovations in Government Award from the JFK School of Government at Harvard for its work to restore the Bronx River. He has also worked at New York City’s Economic Development Corporation, The New York City Charter Revision Commission, and was briefly the Nationals Editor at the Mexico City News, an English language newspaper in Mexico.
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I am an economist and I am finishing my master's degree in development with a major in social policy. My main interest is poverty and inequality, I focus on understanding them from their conceptualization and measurement to generate better policies that address the deepest needs of these phenomena that are intertwined with many others. Currently I focus my research on residential segregation and the relationship of social policies with this phenomenon, and at the same time I am doing an internship at the UNDP in the office of the Human Development Report.
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I am a scientist and an inspiring educator. I am a tireless advocate for diversity, equality and inclusion in education and technology, with an extensive work of support to underrepresented and disadvantaged communities in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine. My goal is to create diverse and open spaces to bring together scientists, technologists, thinkers, philosophers, artists, creators and members of the public to shape my own research and teaching goals. I strive to reach people with less access to information for reasons of age, education, income or origin.
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Zoë O’Reilly is a researcher, writer and visual ethnographer, with a focus on migration, asylum and cultural diversity. She also has a particular interest in collaborative and visual methods. Her book, ‘The In-Between Spaces of Asylum and Migration: a participatory visual approach’, was published with Palgrave in 2020. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice at University College Dublin (UCD).
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Panos Ipeirotis is a Professor and George A. Kellner Faculty Fellow at the Department of Technology, Operations, and Statistics at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business of New York University. His research focuses in the areas of crowdsourcing, machine learning, web data management, and social media analytics. He is widely regarded as the world's leading expert in building human-machine loop systems, that integrate human and machine intelligence to generate outcomes that are better than what humans alone or machines alone can achieve. He has also received more than ten “Best Paper” awards and nominations, and a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. For his contributions in the field of social media, user-generated content, and crowdsourcing, he received the 2015 Lagrange Prize in Complex Systems.
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Assistant Professor in Neural Science and Data Science at NYU, USA