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Gaia Narciso is Associate Professor and the Head of Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin. After gaining her MSc in Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, she started her PhD in Economics at Bocconi University, Milan. During her PhD she worked as a consultant for the Development Research Group at the World Bank in Washington DC. Gaia joined the Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin in 2007, soon after completing her PhD. Her fields of research are Political Economy, Development Economics, and Migration. Her research has been widely cited and featured in international media. In particular, her study on the Sicilian mafia has informed the policy debate in Italy. She has successfully attracted international and national funding. She has extensive experience in survey design and implementation and has conducted field experiments in Ireland and abroad.
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Klisala Harrison is a prize-winning music anthropologist (ethnomusicologist) with expertise in the social impact of music on poverty, development, health and well-being, and climate change. She is Associate Professor of Music Anthropology at Aarhus University in Denmark. Harrison has edited three monographs on applications of music research in society and culture (in English and Mandarin); her articles appear in academic journals including Applied Arts & Health, Ethnomusicology, the Yearbook for Traditional Music, MUSICulture, Music and Science, and Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. Her most recent book is Music Downtown Eastside: Human Rights and Capability Development through Music in Urban Poverty (Oxford University Press, 2020).
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Professor emeritus at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Have worked in many countries — Malaysia, South Africa, Pakistan — and for the World Bank and OECD on a range of issues.
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Sébastien Doubinsky is a bilingual French academic and writer, born in Paris in 1963. He currently teaches French literature, history and culture at the Institute for Communication and Culture in the French department at the university of Aarhus, in Denmark. His research fields are work reading theory, translation theory and speculative fiction.
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Natalia Kucirkova is Professor of Early Childhood Education and Development at the University of Stavanger, Norway and Professor of Reading and Children’s Development at The Open University, UK. Natalia’s work is concerned with social justice in children’s literacy and use of technologies. She is the founder of the International Collective of Children’s Digital Books that connects research and design in children’s e-books and literacy apps. Her research takes place collaboratively across academia, commercial and third sectors.
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Dr. Cristina Blanco Sío-López is EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Senior Global Fellow and Principal Investigator (PI) of the EU Horizon 2020 research project ‘Navigating Schengen: Historical Challenges and Potentialities of the EU’s Free Movement of Persons, 1985-2015’ (NAVSCHEN) at the European Studies Center (ESC) of the University of Pittsburgh and at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
She is also Member of the Executive Committee of the Global Young Academy (GYA) at the German Academy of Sciences ‘Leopoldina’ and Co-Leader of the GYA project ‘The COVID-19 Pandemic and Art’, as well as Member of the Spanish National Young Academy (AJE), where she represents the field of History.
She previously was Chair of the North America Chapter of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA), Assistant Professor in ‘European Culture and Politics’ at the University of Groningen and ‘Santander’ Senior Fellow in European Studies at the European Studies Centre (ESC) – St. Antony’s College of the University of Oxford, where she remains a Senior Member.
She obtained her PhD in History and Civilization (European Integration History) at the European University Institute of Florence (EUI), for which she received the FAEY ‘Best PhD Thesis European Research and Mobility Award’.
She coordinated and participated in numerous international research projects, conferences and peer-reviewed publications in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Her research and publications focus on European Integration History —with an accent on enlargement policy temporalities and the Schengen area fundamental rights— Global Governance, Comparative Regional Integration and Digital Humanities.
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United Kingdom. Dr Luca Morini is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Global Learning Education and Attainment of Coventry University.
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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.