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Lydia Cole's picture
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I'm a Conservation Ecologist with a keen interest in how tropical ecosystems can be managed sustainably in the face of agricultural expansion and the other pervasive impacts of population growth and globalisation. I'm particularly interested in peatlands, and how they can be responsibly managed through an understanding of their unique hydrological requirements and socio-ecological relations. Past projects include, spanning time in both academia and industry: creating a mapping and monitoring system for peatlands in the UK, Malaysia and Indonesia; reconstructing past vegetation change and assessing future prospects for the coastal peatlands of Malaysian Borneo; exploring the dynamics of human-wildlife interaction in northeast India; and training Government, research and NGO partners in Ghana, Indonesia and Malaysia on the use of a decision support tool for restoring connectivity in landscapes for biodiversity under climate change. I'm currently working at the University of St Andrews as an Associate Lecturer in the School of Geography and Sustainable Development and Postdoctoral Research Fellow on a Leverhulme Trust-funded project entitled: Valuing intact tropical peatlands – an interdisciplinary challenge. I'm the Chair of the Conservation Ecology Special Interest Group of the British Ecological Society and coordinate the Expert Group on Peatlands and Biodiversity on the International Peatland Society’s Scientific Advisory Board.
Elise Klein's picture
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Elise Klein is a Senior Lecturer of Public Policy at the Crawford School, Australian National University. She also works with the Australian Basic Income Lab. Her research focuses on development policy with a specific interest in work, redistribution, decoloniality and care.
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Dr. Ripal Ranpara is the Assistant Professor at Atmiya University, Rajkot. She is also the Database Administrator of Atmiya University Library and Learning Centre. She is the gold medallist in bachelor and master degree in information technology and computer application. Her expertise and research domains are Semantic Web, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval and network security. She has the rich academic knowledge and teaching experience of more than 6 years. She has mentored more than 80 postgraduate dissertations. She has also guided more that 5 funded projects of Rajkot city. She is the resource person of E-learning and network administration value added and co-curricular course at Shree M.N Virani Science College (Autonomous) Rajkot. She is the organizer of more than 2 international, more than 5 national and more than 10 regional events. As an assistant professor of department, she has bought the international oracle academy Memorandum to college to inculcate in the syllabus. She is also the panel member and jury of Gujarat Technological University, Student Start-up innovation Policy. She has also earned the global goodwill ambassador title from international Richard Dipillia Foundation LinkedIn. She is also the Certified Educator Community Influencer at Microsoft Education Community. She has also earned the title of Innovative Educator at Microsoft. She is the Ambassador at Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE. She is the advisor member of International Management Research and Technology Consortium. She is the editorial board members of more than five international peer reviewed journals. She is the reviewer member of more than fifteen peer reviewed international journals. Believing in Excellence, She has strong ties with many IT companies for the industry-academia collaboration. She is the board of studies member of Shree M.N Virani Science College as well Atmiya University. She is also the examiner committee member of Saurashtra University. She has been awarded as Best Women in ICT Technology 2019-2020 by International Inspirational Women Award (IIWA) Initiative by global GISR Organization. She has also been awarded as National Women’s Leadership Award in ICT, 2019-2020. She has authored and published more than nine books at international level, on subjects like python, web development, network administration etc. She has published more than twelve research papers in international peer reviewed journals including Springer. She has also published more than five papers in national journals. She has conducted various workshops, seminar and conferences in emerging trends in Computer Science and Engineering. He has also presented many guest lectures in various institutions. She always like to re-engineer the things - and for that reason, research is about the best possible option what she thinks to pursue lifelong. She is also curious to explore her own limits and skills and to get off the beaten path and "she always believe to work with Excellence" by giving hundred percent to complete the desired goal with satisfaction. She always believes in relearning the things.
Selenge Badrakh's picture
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Graduate student | MSc Sustainable Development
Matteo Zullo's picture
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I am receiving my PhD in Public Policy and MS in Data Analytics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. I am interested in educational policy with a focus on international student migrations and education production functions.
Rehema White's picture
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Dr Rehema White is a sustainability academic at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, Chair of Scotland's UNU Regional Centre of Expertise in Education for Sustainable Development (Learning for Sustainability Scotland) and a member of Scotland's SDG Network Steering Group. She works in knowledge and sustainable development (including learning for sustainability, research modes); governance of natural resources (including multi-level collaboration, global North-South links, roles of community); and sustainability in practice in contested areas, including biosecurity and biodiversity conflicts. She is exploring integrative analysis and novel links across these different fields, drawing on her experiences across the natural and social sciences. Much of her recent work involves gathering together academics, practitioners and policy makers in innovative ways to co-design collaborative solutions to specific sustainability challenges.
Sofia Cusano's picture
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Hi there, I am the Executive Manager of the Mile End Institute, a Centre for History and Public Policy based at Queen Mary University of London.
Hannah Wilson's picture
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MSc sustainable development student at the university of St. Andrews
Anna Crawford's picture
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Postdoctoral researcher in glaciology. Member of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration. Board Chair of Greenpeace Canada.
Toyin Benedict Ajibade's picture
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Toyin Ajibade, a lecturer and researcher at the University of Ilorin Nigeria, holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics. Toyin had about eight years of cognate banking experience before venturing into academia. An International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) research fellow, her doctoral research was on Price Discovery and Volatility of Selected Food Crop Markets in Nigeria. Toyin’s career goal is to be at the forefront of agricultural trade, markets, and industrial organization agenda towards regional trade integration and agricultural value chain development in Africa. Toyin is an advocate for agricultural value chain development and has been actively involved with curriculum development, training of value chain actors, and financial institutions such as to build formidable value chains across various crops in Nigeria. Toyin has conducted agribusiness and agricultural finance training of financial institutions for various organizations including commercial banks, AFOS Foundation for Entrepreneurial Development Cooperation (African Trust Funds Entrepreneurial Development, and impact investors, among others. Toyin has been engaging with stakeholders across various levels of involvement including research institutions, funding organizations, insurance institutions, donor agencies, the private sector, and the Government. Toyin is currently involved with the NICOP component of the West Africa Competitiveness Project in developing and adapting financial literacy manuals and training toolkits for Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) German Development Cooperation which is co-financed by the European Union for Farmers in selected food value chains and MSMEs in the leather and garment sectors in Nigeria. Toyin is a co-Principal Investigator on Feed-The-Future Legume Systems Innovation Lab-funded projects targeted at Promoting Trade Integration in Africa Regional Legume Markets through mobile technology app which is being developed for the legume traders and farmers in West Africa region. Toyin has been a consultant for International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Nigeria and Mali where she has carried out various researches in the millet and sorghum value chains. Toyin is a climate-change enthusiast who looks forward to doing more multidisciplinary researches that will be addressing climate change challenges, bearing in mind the threats this poses to food production and food security in an interconnected world.

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