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Anil Duman is currently an Associate Professor at Central European University, Budapest. She has received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her broad research interests include political economy, industrial relations, welfare state policies, and redistribution. In her recent research, she has been specializing on the interrelations between labor market status and socio-economic inequalities. Her previous research focuses on analysis of skill formation, skill distribution, and their relation to individual policy preferences across countries and over time. She is also involved in research projects examining the transformation of social protection regimes in several transition countries.
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More than 17 years as a knowledgeable and effective servant leader; a public health & social work administrator; working with
individuals, groups, and facilities, with particular emphasis on leadership and Advocacy in social services, public health,
reproductive health of women and the girl child, and policies regarding Gender Based Violence
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I am a PhD student looking at how academic research has impact on policymakers, how academic-policymaker links are built in the UK and the effects of the impact agenda on academic-government relations
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Dr. Seble Frehywot is Professor of Global Health and Health Policy at The George Washington University (GWU). Currently, she is also the Director of Health Equity On-Line Learning for the Atlantic Philanthropy Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity program and the co-founder of the IT for Health and Education System Equity (ITfHESE) Initiative. She has 27 of experience in international settings spanning many countries in Asia, Africa, and the United States, and brings in-depth knowledge of comparative health systems, health equity, communities of practice, medicine, policy, and digital education.
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I am a PhD student researching gay Traveller men and their experiences. I am interested in equality, diversity and policy making around this area.
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Dr. Tracy-Ann Johnson-Myers is the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Coordinator and an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History (major) and Political Science (minor), as well as a Master of Science in Government (Comparative Politics/Political Theory) from The University of the West Indies. She earned her PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of New Brunswick (Canada). Her research interests include equity, diversity, inclusion, and gender and identity politics.
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Mark Manger is Associate Professor of Political Economy and Global Affairs at the Munk School, and Director of the Global Economic Policy Lab. His work investigates on the political economy of trade and exchange rate policy. He is the author of “Investing in Protection: The Politics Preferential Trade Agreements between North and South” (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and of articles in Comparative Political Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, World Politics, and World Development, among others. He has been a consultant to the Governments of Japan and Canada on the economic potential and feasibility of free trade agreements, including the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement.
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Active member of the Milieux Institute’s Media History Research Center.
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Dr Praveen Balakrishnan Nair is an Associate Professor attached to Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University. He holds three post graduate qualifications in different functional areas of management and has earned his PhD in the area of environmental marketing. Prior to joining Heriot -Watt, he was with Curtin University of Technology and Swinburne University of Technology. His current research interests lies in the area of corporate social responsibility, sustainability, social entrepreneurship and urban poverty alleviation and has presented and published papers in these areas. Praveen is currently leading a research team exploring the role social entrepreneurship can play in urban poverty alleviation, in fast developing economies.
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Louise is a PhD researcher at Aberystwyth University, Wales. Her research focuses on Unarmed Civilian Protection and how nonviolent actors shape conflict knowledge production.