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I am passionate with vulnerable people and I am morally obliged to help with love
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José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez is an Economic Historian with a strong background in economic theory and industrial organization.
His thesis was centered on traditional irrigation communities in Murcia, Spain. Some of the towns in the region used auctions to allocate water from the river while most others allocated the water through fixed quotas. He recovered auction data and estimated water demand, to assess the efficiency of each system.
He also works on diverse areas such as auction theory, mechanism design and political economy.
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I am a PhD candidate researching an alternative to dominant transitional justice approaches. I adopt a comparative approach to analysing this alternative in Colombia, Northern Ireland, Uganda, and Indonesia through a gender-focused lens.
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Researcher in political philosophy, with a main interest policies surrounding genetics, human rights, equality and rule of law.
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I am a DPhil candidate in International Development at the University of Oxford. Prior to this, I undertook an MPhil in African Studies and a Bachelor with Honours in Politics and International Development. I worked under the Diversity, Candidates and Membership Teams of the Liberal Democrats, where I was responsible for organising and coordinating Future Women's MP Weekend for prospective electoral candidates. I also worked as a free-lance opinion writer for TheSouthAfrican.com as well as the Daily Maverick.
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I am a PhD student in Government at Harvard University. I research at the intersection of migration and the domestic politics of foreign policy. Specifically, I study the relationship between the policy preferences of diaspora communities and the foreign policy decisions of their home countries, with respect to ethnic lobbying, nationalist protests, and diplomatic signaling. I have secondary interests in the role of race in international relations and the role of emotions in politics. I am an alumna of the University of California, Berkeley, where I studied towards a BA in History. From 2017 - 2019, I was a Clarendon Scholar at the University of Oxford and graduated with an MPhil in International Relations. Prior to starting my PhD at Harvard, I worked at United Nations Global Pulse in New York and as a research assistant for Dr. David Malone, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, at All Souls College, Oxford.
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Sam Ritholtz is a researcher in the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, where they study the dynamics of prejudicial violence against sexual and gender minorities during the internal armed conflict in Colombia. Sam’s broader research explores LGBTIQ+ experiences of crisis, conflict, and displacement. Outside of academia, Sam has worked on human rights and gender issues for a range of institutions, including the United Nations’ Executive Office of the Secretary General as well as human rights organizations in Washington DC and Buenos Aires. Sam has written for The New Humanitarian, Slate, and Newsweek and the Daily Beast’s Women in the World Foundation. Originally from New York, Sam has an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford and a BSc in International Agriculture and Rural Development from Cornell University.
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I am a Professor with the Department of Government at the University of Essex. My main research interests are in international relations and conflict resolution with a particular interest in the impact of peacekeeping operations. My research encompasses the analysis of secondary, mainly quantitative data, but I have also done field research and implemented surveys on the local perception of (and trust in) UN peacekeepers and other external actors post-conflict in Timor Leste, Haiti, and Colombia, and in Uganda I have surveyed refugee communities.
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Professor Ndedi book was featured among the 28 Best Intrapreneurship Books of All Time (https://bookauthority.org/books/best-intrapreneurship-books). Former World Bank and USAID consultant, chairman of lance d’afrique, Executive Director of Cameroon Human Resources SARL and author of more than 30 books, Alain Ndedi who holds a PhD in business management and another one in forensic accounting, is a professor with an extensive experience in entrepreneurship, finance, and economic development for the past 15 years. He has supervised more than 40 PhD students and approximately 50 Masters students.
He was Dean at Saint Monica University, within the School of Business and Public Policy; lecturer of entrepreneurship and project management at the university of Johannesburg, Université de l’entrepreneuriat and at the Higher Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship (IME). He is a visiting professor at Hope Africa University and International Leadership University where he teaches Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Strategic Management, and Organisational Behaviour.
Professor Ndedi has consulted for the UNDP, African Union, NEPAD, and many African governments on issues related to public finance, budget management, monitoring and evaluation. Associated as professor with Charisma University since 2014, Professor Ndedi held position at the University of Johannesburg, Researcher at Wits University, Lecturer at Boston College, external examiner at the University of Cape Peninsula, State University of New York (SUNY), and the University of Johannesburg. He worked as Political Analyst at SABC, South African Broadcasting Corporation, a state-owned public broadcaster in South Africa. From 2004-2008, he was Director at YENEPAD, a platform of African scholars based in South Africa working on African renaissance programmes.
Professor Ndedi wrote Case studies on Volkwagen unethical behaviour, the war between Komatsu and Caterpillar, the WhatsApp founders Bryan Ancton and Jan Koum, the Maponya Mall in Soweto, the battle between Coca Cola and Pepsi, the google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the Douala Stock Exchange, Yahoo downfall, and the Shell corporate irresponsibility behaviour in Nigeria.
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Julia Smith Coyoli is a doctoral student in Harvard's Government Department, with interests in Latin American politics and the political economy of education in developing countries. A former Fulbright IIE scholar and Princeton in Latin America fellow, Julia earned a BA in Latin American Studies and Educational Studies from Macalester College (St. Paul, MN) and an MSc in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (Mexico City). Her publications appear in Latin American Perspectives (forthcoming), NACLA, and the Journal of Undergraduate International Studies. She is currently developing a dissertation that focuses on the politics of educational quality (learning) in Latin America. Recognizing that many countries have passed national reforms without a corresponding improvement in student learning, her dissertation focuses on the politics of implementation. The subnational implementation of education reform faces two constraints: (1) the lack of political incentives for executives to take on politically costly reforms—where voter demand is weak and a well-organized interest group (teachers’ unions) presents strong opposition; and (2) weak state capacity. She argues that these constraints can be overcome when local education authorities committed to the reform are in place and can obtain state capacity either via existing sources or by creating it via an effective bargain for the teachers’ union’s cooperation. She tests this argument using the case of the implementation of education reform in the Mexican states, which, despite a common national reform, exhibit wide variation in student learning outcomes.