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Jens Jungblut works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR) at Stanford University and a postdoctoral researcher at the International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER) at the University of Kassel. He received his PhD from the University of Oslo. His main research interests include party politics, policy-making, and public governance in the knowledge policy domain (higher education & research), organizational change in higher education, and the role of (academic) expertise in policy advice.
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I am and economist and a Rstudio certified tidyverse instructor. I have experience in working with government, think tanks and elected representatives in range of issues such as welfare schemes, rights based laws and data analytics.
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Jakob is Research and Policy Officer at OPHI. He does both academic research on multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis and associated areas – and he works with international partners in United Nations agencies and governments around the world towards the development of multidimensional poverty indices as permanent official statistics and all-of-government policy-tools.
Jakob is also Lecturer at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany.
He previously held research positions at the Blavatnik School of Government and Mansfield College (both University of Oxford), and has worked in diplomacy for the German Federal Foreign Office.
Research interests
Theories, measurement, and analysis of well-being, poverty and inequality; welfare economics; sustainable (human) development; social protection; evidence-based public policy; and the capability approach.
Select Publications
2021
UNDP and OPHI (2021). Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021. Unmasking Disparities by Ethnicity, Caste and Gender. New York: United Nations Development Programme.
WHO (2021). Using Multidimensional Poverty and Vulnerability Indices to Inform Equitable Policies and Interventions in Health Emergencies. Geneva: World Health Organization.
Dirksen, J. and Alkire, S. (2021). ‘Children and Multidimensional Poverty. Four Measurement Strategies’, Sustainability, Vol. 16, No. 13: 9108. DOI: 10.3390/ su13169108. (Also published as: OPHI Working Paper 138, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.)
NPC (2021). Nepal Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021. Analysis Towards Action. Kathmandu: National Planning Commission, Government of Nepal.
2020
Dirksen, J. (2020). ‘Which Are the Dimensions and Indicators Most Commonly Used to Measure Multidimensional Poverty Around the World?’, Dimensions, Vol. 11: 14-22.
Alkire, S., Dirksen, J., Nogales, R. and Oldiges, C. (2020). ‘Multidimensional Poverty and Vulnerability to COVID-19. A Rapid Overview of Disaggregated and Interlinked Vulnerabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa’, OPHI Briefing 54a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Dirksen, J., Nogales, R. and Oldiges, C. (2020). ‘Multidimensional Poverty and Vulnerability to COVID-19. A Rapid Overview of Disaggregated and Interlinked Vulnerabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa’, OPHI Briefing 54, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford. This briefing is also available in French.
Alkire, S., Dirksen, J., Nogales, R. and Oldiges, C. (2020). ‘Multidimensional Poverty and COVID-19 Risk Factors. A Rapid Overview of Interlinked Deprivations Across 5.8 Billion People’, OPHI Briefing 53a, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Dirksen, J., Nogales, R., and Oldiges, C. (2020). ‘Multidimensional Poverty and COVID-19 Risk Factors. A Rapid Overview of Interlinked Deprivations Across 5.7 Billion People’, OPHI Briefing 53, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
Alkire, S., Dirksen, J., Oldiges, C. and Nogales, R. (2020). ‘Multidimensional Poverty and the Risk from COVID-19’, Dimensions, Vol. 9: 7-10.
UNDP and OPHI (2020). Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2020. Charting Pathways out of Multidimensional Poverty: Achieving the SDGs. New York: United Nations Development Programme.
OPHI (2020). Multidimensional Poverty in Chhattisgarh: A Measure for Action. Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, University of Oxford.
2019
UNDP and OPHI (2019). Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2019. Illuminating Inequalities. New York: United Nations Development Programme.
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Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra is Reader in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability at King's Business School. She is the author of The Venture Capital State: The Silicon Valley Model in East Asia (Cornell University Press, 2018) and Inclusive Innovation (co-authored with Alex Glennie and Courtney Savie Lawrence, Routledge, 2022). Before joining King's College London in 2014, Robyn was a Senior Research Fellow, in charge of venture policy, at the Coller Institute of Venture at Tel Aviv University. Robyn’s research focuses on innovation, entrepreneurship, corporate sustainability and entrepreneurial clusters and has been published in highly-ranked peer-reviewed journals, including International Affairs, Journal of Development Studies, New Political Economy, Regulation & Governance, and Socio-Economic Review, and International Affairs. She holds a Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Research Grant (2019-2023). Robyn received her BA from the University of Michigan (2003), was a visiting scholar at the National University of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (2012), and obtained her MSc and PhD in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics & Political Science. She is Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (HEA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).
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Professor of Political Economy and International Development, King's College London
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Bella works as an auditor in Badan Pengawasan Keuangan dan Pembangunan/BPKP (Financial and Development Supervisory Agency), Republic of Indonesia. His work experience includes doing various assurance and advisory activities, interacting with ministries, non-ministerial agencies and local governments in Indonesia. He is currently researching subnational revenue mobilisation in Indonesia.
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Founder of LiiV and CEO of Splashlight and Telmar. Experienced thought leader, entrepreneur and executive, with over 20 years of corporate experience and a passion for creative digital technologies.
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Dr. Takako Mino is a people-centered scholar-practitioner with 10 years of teaching, research, and project management experience spanning 7 countries in Africa and North America. She is currently based in Uganda.
Throughout her career, Takako has been concerned with education’s role in fostering young people with the sense of humanity required to effect a positive change and has taken action to promote such an education.
In 2011, she implemented the Public Debate Program in East Africa in collaboration with local non-governmental organisations and schools. The program reached over 50,000 students and empowered them with the communication and critical thinking skills required to be active citizens.
Takako conducts research on youth-focused challenges and the role of African indigenous philosophies in humanising current educational systems. For her research, she has employed diverse qualitative methodologies including participatory action research, case study, and ethnography.
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Greetings everyone, I am a PhD candidate researching on translation of interventions to improving young people's movement skills.
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I’m a PhD researcher studying inclusive citizen participation in the development of smart cities. Currently, I’m working with Asian Development Bank and British Council on engagement of youth and vulnerable groups in inclusive climate change mitigation and adaptation in Asia and the Pacific.