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I am a Ph.D. student of political studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. My research interests encompass migration, disaster management and natural disasters. I have previous experience working with the United Nations in Nepal as Special Assistant to the Resident Coordinator and a Junior Professional Officer, as a Graduate Fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation through the Balsillie School of International Affairs looking at migration patterns, and as a Research Assistant.
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Over the past 16 years, Laurent has gradually been working as an academic researcher, R&D Director (Oxford Consilium), project manager, senior policy analyst/government advisor, full-time faculty and Advisory Board member of a technology transfer centre of the United Nations.
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Catherine L. Ward is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She holds a PhD in Clinical-Community Psychology from the University of South Carolina, USA. Her research interests are in violence prevention from the perspective of children’s development, and particularly in public health approaches to this – in developing evidence-based approaches to violence prevention that have a wide reach and are effective in improving children’s development and reducing their likelihood of becoming aggressive. Much of her current work is focused on preventing child maltreatment, and on understanding the epidemiology of risk factors faced by children, especially in low- and middle-income countries. In line with this, she is one of the developers of the Parenting for Lifelong Health suite of programmes that aim to support parents to raise non-violent children in non-violent homes (see https://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/child/plh/en/ for details).
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Dr Bahar Baser is Associate Professor at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations. She is also an associate research fellow at the Security Institute for Governance and Leadership in Africa (SIGLA), Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Before joining CTPSR, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Warwick at the Department of Politics and International Studies between 2012 and 2014. Bahar completed a PhD in Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
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Dr Umut Korkut is Professor in International Politics at Glasgow School for Business and Society at Glasgow Caledonian University. Prof Korkut has expertise in how political discourse makes audiences and recently studies visual imagery and audience making. Prof Korkut is the lead for AMIF-funded project VOLPOWER assessing youth volunteering in sports, arts, and culture in view of social integration and Primary Investigator for Horizon 2020 funded RESPOND and DEMOS projects on migration governance and populism.
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Dr Bhabani Shankar Nayak is a political economist working as Professor of Business Management in the Guildhall School of Business and Law, London Metropolitan University, UK. His research interests consist of four closely interrelated and mutually guiding programmes i.e., i) political economy of public policy, AI and sustainable development, gender and environment in South Asia, ii) market, microfinance, religion and social business, iii) faith, freedom, globalisation and governance and iv) Hindu religion and capitalism.
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Dr. Amber Darr completed a PhD from UCL Laws in 2018 in which she compared the diffusion of competition laws in India and Pakistan. She is presently a Lecturer in Law at Coventry University and a Teaching Fellow at UCL. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Centre for Law, Economics and Society.
Dr. Darr is also a Barrister of Lincoln’s Inn and an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Prior to proceeding for her PhD, she practised corporate, commercial and constitutional law in Pakistan and also served as the Head of the Legal Department of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan.
Dr. Darr has also published on competition law issues in leading international publications and has contributed op-ed pieces in leading newspapers on a range of legal issues. She is presently working on her manuscript on the diffusion of competition laws across South Asia. She is particularly interested in inclusive economies, access to justice and education.
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I am an economist with academic and private-sector experience. I am an expert in health, economic development, and sustainability.
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I am a Senior Research Fellow at the MCFS, Monash University. Before joining MCFS, I was an Associate Professor at Dhaka University. I also worked as a Consultant for the World Bank for several years. I completed my doctoral studies at MIT under the supervision of Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee. My major fields of interest were international trade, finance and development and econometrics.
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Zhenyu Zhang is a Ph.D. student at the University of Hong Kong and has a master's degree in Public Administration from Cornell University. He is highly interested in policy issues relevant to China and East Asia. He is also highly interested in Venture capital and interned at the Shenzhen Capital Group, the largest venture capital company in China.