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A social entrepreneur and serves as the President to Society for Economic Empowerment and Entrepreneurship Development {SEEED}, a Non- Government Organization that aims at promoting and advancement of entrepreneurship, leadership, and management for economic development and empowerment of people, communities and nations towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. He has over 25 years of professional experience working in the private sector and in the management team.
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Richard Albert is Professor of World Constitutions and Director of Constitutional Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. A counselor to multinational organizations, governments, and political parties, he is an expert in democratic innovation and constitutional reform. He has published over 20 books, including Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions (Oxford University Press 2019). He is the Founder and Director of the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism, whose mission is to marshal knowledge and experience to build a world of opportunity, liberty, and dignity for all. Born and raised in Ottawa, he is a former law clerk to the Chief Justice of Canada and a graduate of Yale, Oxford and Harvard. As of July 2021, he is Co-President of the International Society of Public Law, the world’s leading organization for the study and practice of public law.
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I am a PhD Student in Economics at Stanford University. My main academic interests are public and behavioral economics. I use online experiments and causal inference techniques, including synthetic controls and matching, to study problems including the design of intergenerational policy and how to weight costs and benefits across different agents. I also have interests in the economics of animal welfare, global priorities research, and effective altruism.
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I have over 20 years management consulting experience, leading change, delivering programmes and projects and designing quality management systems, working in over 20 countries. More recently I have moved into public health and am currently completing doctoral research whilst holding a national post in cancer screening.
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I am a professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, and the president of a policy evaluation company called Evaluasi.
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Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at Stanford University, studying economics of the family and urban economics.
Personal Website: sallyzhang.weebly.com
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Ciaran is an urban planning professional with experience working in the United Kingdom and Australia. His research interests include digital technologies, urban geography, environmental management and design.
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A practitioner and researcher in international development, I have worked across different functions where evidence generation and use were central (M&E, impact evaluation, programming / project planning), primarily for governance-related projects, in several Asian and African countries. My key interests are in evidence-base policy and programs, evaluation, and bridge-building between research and practice. I am currently completing a PhD at the University of Cambridge, with a focus on local governance and state-citizen relations.
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Michael G Breen is a Lecturer in Public Policy (MECAF) at the University of Melbourne (UOM). He held a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Melbourne from 2018-2020, focussing on federalism in Asia, after completing his PhD at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2017. Michael has since published widely on issues related to federalism and multilevel governance, especially as it pertains to ethnic division and conflict, and reforms in Asia, as well as deliberative democracy in Asia. He has also advised on federal reforms in Nepal, Myanmar and Philippines, and consulted for organisations including the United Nations Development Programme. Before academia, Michael was a senior policy-maker and project manager in government departments in South Australia and Victoria, Australia, in particular in the field of Indigenous rights.
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I am a researcher in International Relations, specialising in the areas of gendered development and urbanisation, poverty and livelihoods, and feminist and post colonial theory, with a current regional focus on the western Pacific. I have researched and published on basic or guaranteed income grants.