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Dean, Graduate Research School, University of Western Australia
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Psychologist, working in counseling with adults and adolescents. Interest in social innovation and culture.
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Lecturer in Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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I am assistant professor of economics at CUNEF, Spain, and associate of the Centre for Economic Performance (LSE). My research interests lie in the economics of education, gender equality and labour economics more generally.
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Garima Dhir is a Ph.D. in Development Economics from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India. In the past 10 years, she has worked in the capacity of an economist, researcher, and policy consultant within the corporate as well as government sector. Her major areas of interest and research include inclusion, public policy, skill development, education and international trade. She has published papers in various reputed national and international journals. Recently, her research work was published in the Economic Survey of India, 2019-20, released by the central finance ministry of India.
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Saumitra Jha is an associate professor of political economy at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and, by courtesy, of economics and of political science, and convenes the Stanford Conflict and Polarization Lab. He is also a senior fellow at the Center for Democracy, Development and Rule of Law within the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Affairs and at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. In 2020–21, he is a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Jha’s research has been published in leading journals in economics and political science, including Econometrica, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Political Science Review and the Journal of Development Economics, and he serves on a number of editorial boards. His research on ethnic tolerance has been recognized with the Michael Wallerstein Award for best published article in Political Economy from the American Political Science Association in 2014 and his coauthored research on heroes with the Oliver Williamson Award for best paper by the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics in 2020. Jha was honored to receive the Teacher of the Year Award, voted by the students of the Stanford MSx Program in 2020.
Jha holds a BA from Williams College, master’s degrees in economics and mathematics from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in economics from Stanford University. Prior to joining Stanford GSB, he was an Academy Scholar at Harvard University. He has been a fellow of the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance and the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. Jha has consulted on economic and political risk issues for the United Nations/WTO, the World Bank, government agencies, and for private firms.
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Dr. Mathieu JP Poirier is York Research Chair in Global Health Equity (tier II), Assistant Professor of Social Epidemiology in York University’s School of Global Health, member of the WHO Collaborating Centre on the Global Governance of Antimicrobial Resistance, and Co-Director of the Global Strategy Lab.
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My research explores the interaction between global and domestic dynamics that affects the provision of quality education for all. Recently, I focus on understanding how social, political, economic, health, and environmental crises shape education policy initiatives, coordination, and negotiations among education policy actors, including international, national, subnational, and school actors. I use an interdisciplinary approach based on political science and sociology along with mixed methods.
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Professor in the Department of Economics (effective from 2021) , Prof Roula Inglesi-Lotz, is the first president of the South African Association for Energy Economics (SAAEE), which was established in 2018 and is comprised of esteemed energy experts in the country.
She is currently the research coordinator of the Honours programme and teaches Research Methodology and Econometrics to Honours students, and Energy Economics to Masters students (a module that she designed and presented for the first time in the Department of Economics, University of Pretoria in 2015).
She is an NRF Y-1 rated researcher and she is a member of the Global Young Academy (GYA) and the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS) (co-chair in 2020 and SAYAS blog editor 2019-2020)
Among her many notable accomplishments, Prof Inglesi-Lotz was named the Distinguished Young Woman Researcher in the Humanities and Social Sciences category of the 2017 DST Women in Science Awards. She was selected and participated in the 2019 cohort of the Africa Science Leadership Programme (ASLP) in Future Africa, through which she promotes the need for a polyphony in science communication. She is also affiliated with Future Africa, University of Pretoria.
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I am in the Educational Technology and Learning Design PhD program at SFU and an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Victoria (School of Public Health and Social Policy). I have been teaching in post-secondary institutions for 10 years. My area of research focuses on accessible and inclusive education for students with mental-health-related disabilities who are studying online; I hope to contribute to making Canadian post-secondary institutions more inclusive, so that all students can achieve their academic goals.