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Philip Shapira is Professor of Innovation Management and Policy, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, and a Professor of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology. His interests encompass science and technology, innovation management, manufacturing strategies, emerging technologies, and responsible innovation. He is a Co-Investigator and Lead for Responsible Research and Innovation with the Manchester Synthetic Biology Research Centre. Recent outputs have examined institutions for technology diffusion and the next production revolution, societal alignment and emerging technologies, and redistributed manufacturing. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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I am the co-Founder and inaugural Director of the Impact Evaluation (IE) Lab at Tanzania's Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF). The IE Lab's Mission is to expand the impact evaluation space in Tanzania through capacity-building of local researchers in IE methods; facilitating interactions between IE researchers, both local and international, and policy-makers; producing cutting-edge rigorous impact evaluated-knowledge of interventions and policies; to ultimately inform better policies that improve the lives of Tanzanians.
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Livini is an assistant lecturer in Economics at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Currently he is a PhD (Economics) candidate at the University of Nottingham, UK.
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Senior Lecturer teaching Politics, International Relations and Human Rights. Migration scholar.
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I have gathered a multifaceted set of experiences, ranging from sales and administration to working with the United Nations Headquarters, where I led communications projects related to sustainability education and the #GlobalGoals. My passion and expertise lie within the sphere of communications, innovation, social impact, and the intercept of traditional business strategy and sustainability.
With over 5 years of professional experience, I have spent extensive time working with various NGOs, international organizations and startups, such as;
- United Nations Sustainable Development Network - Youth (UN SDSN Youth)
- Women’s Global Leadership Initiative (WGLI)
- United Nations
- Young European Leadership (YEL)
- Youth 7 (Official Youth Engagement Group of the G7)
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PhD candidate studying social media and refugee-host community relations - Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
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Assistant Professor Dr Ruttiya is a lecturer, and a Vice Dean at the College of Population Studies, Chulalongkorn University. She has been actively working in the area of labour market analysis, skills, gender, migration, and labour policy linkages.
For many years, she joined the ILO and worked on various issues, including labour market analysis, skills, gender, migration, as well as disaster and the labour market. She is an international consultant who conducted researches in many Asian countries for UNIDO, OECD and ILO. She is also a Project Manager of a Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development Project (SATREPS) on Regional Resilience Enhancement through Establishment of Area-BCM at Industry Complexes in Thailand.
She continuously contributes to academic areas and promotes linkages of labour researches into policies and practices using an interdisciplinary approach. Currently, she is a director/ key coordinator of Collaborating Centre for Labour Research at Chulalongkorn University, Secretariat to National Labour Research Centre at the Ministry of Labour, and a committee member on labour reform, Thai Senate of Thailand. She also conducted a Government Laboratory for government staffs on a design thinking basis and human-centre design.
She has committed to advance linkages between labour researches and inclusive policies for all groups of people toward inclusive growth.
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Salvador Santino Fulo Regilme Jr. (born 1986) is a tenured Associate Professor of International Relations (Universitair hoofddocent) based at the Institute of History at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Born in the Philippines and educated in Germany and the United States, he is a Dutch scholar focusing on international human rights norms, North-South relations, global security issues, and contemporary United States foreign policy. At Leiden University, he serves as the Chair of the MA in International Relations Program.
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I am extremely passionate about solving complex challenges to drive impact that is sustainable and scalable. I am skilled in strategic planning, data-driven problem-solving, use of human-centred design, leadership development, and managing people and teams. I also have a strong background in economic research, particularly in the fields of education, competitive strategy, consumer behavior, technology and social media.
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I study government security responses to violence and insurgency in Sub-Saharan Africa. My research focuses on how states maintain security by exploring government action towards political violence, conflict, terrorism, and insurgency in this region.