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Katie Hirono is a PhD candidate in the Global Public Health Unit at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the role of participatory processes, such as citizens’ juries and health impact assessment, for improving policymaking and health equity. Katie also has a long-standing record of helping to support underserved communities. She served on the board of directors for a health clinic in Maryland that serviced undocumented Latino populations, and volunteered as a Spanish medical translator at a free health clinic in Virginia. She has worked as a consultant to the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization in the department of Gender, Diversity and Human Rights.
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PhD student researcher at Simon Fraser University's Department of Political Science. My areas of expertise include comparative political behaviour, intergroup relations, and Canadian politics. Substantively, I am interested in the effects of migration and diversity on political outcomes.
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I am a PhD canditate at Global Governance Deparment. I am holding a Master of LLM with 7 years of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) experience in working with refugees, specifically in providing legal and psychosocial support to sexual and gender based violence survivors, unaccompanied and separated children, and children exposed to child marriage and child labour. I have a project and training expertise on International Refugee Law, International Human Rights Law and Refugee Protection.
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Aviva Silburt is a PhD Candidate at the University of Waterloo's Balsillie School of International Affairs researching the complex linkages between mining conflicts and broader peacebuilding challenges in Guatemala. Aviva has professional experience in public policy and peacebuilding, and has worked in various capacities with the Government of Canada, UN Women Canada, and grassroots NGOs in Rwanda, Bosnia, and the Philippines. She is currently a policy advisor for the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise to investigate human rights abuses involving Canadian companies operating abroad.
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Ph.D. student with the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Canada. Member of the Hard-of-Hearing community. Research focuses on Disarmament Agreements.
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Former Government of Canada policy analyst working in next generation energy technologies, regulatory approval of energy infrastructure, and Indigenous consultation. PhD research into governance of climate altering technologies such as stratospheric aerosol injection, cirrus cloud thinning, and marine cloud brightening - cumulatively solar geoengineering. Also have interests in governance of transformational technology and infrastructure, and other climate altering technologies including carbon dioxide removal and direct air capture technologies.
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Second year PhD student at the University of Waterloo, BSIA, in Global Governance specializing in conflict and security, particularly security mechanisms and governance of UNESCO cultural heritage sites in cities with proximity to active conflict.
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A health geographer and epidemiologist by training and a researcher and a community servant at heart
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Mirko (PhD, Sydney; MPhil, Edinburgh; MSc and BA, Milan) is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science and Head of the Human Machine Interaction Lab at Innopolis University. He is a Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (2022-), a Honorary Member of the Lab for Industrializing Software Production (LIPS) in the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering at Innopolis University (2021-), an Expert Member of the UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab (2021-), and Contributing Member of the Astana Club (2022-).
He was a Member of Task Force 1 on Global Health and Covid 19, at G20, 2021, a Senior Research Fellow (2021-2018) at Saint Petersburg State University, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Innopolis University (2022-2020) and at Nazarbayev University (2020-2019), a Honorary Research Fellow (2019-2021) and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2016) in the Department of Philosophy at King's College London , and a visiting scholar (2017) at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow. He was also visiting fellow at Aarhus University, and at Ruhr University Bochum.
Over his career, A/Prof Farina received approximately USD1 Million in research funding. A/Prof Farina has over 60 peer-reviewed publications with many articles in top-tier (Q1) journals (in both philosophy and computer science) and several chapters in prestigious edited collections (e.g. Oxford University Press, MIT Press, Routledge, Springer Nature). During his career A/Prof Farina delivered more than 75 talks at international conferences. A/Prof Farina is currently co-editing two books on expertise (one with Duncan Pritchard and Andrea Lavazza)- invited by- Oxford University Press; the second for Routledge. He is also co-editing two Special Issues on distributed cognition for Cognition, Technology & Work and Frontiers in Psychology
Personal Webpage: https://mirkofarina.weebly.com/
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Lubna Yusuf is an author, lawyer and a noted documentary filmmaker based in Mumbai, India. She is the Founder of La Legal and CEO, Co-Founder of FishEyeBox Innovation Lab.
She is the Co-Author of The AI Book on Fintech published by Wiley Publications. Purpose of Flowers, a bestseller Haiku book, is her first book of Poetry and Illustrations. She read creative writing at Oxford University. Her articles on AI, Law, privacy & ethics in Deep tech are published in corporate magazines and legal journals.
She is a visiting lecturer of IPR and media laws at NMIMS School of Design. She is also a Mentor of Change for Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog, Government of India.
She is the recipient of the Legal Writer’s Award 2019 by Legal Service India for her journal on Film and Media laws. She was the Finalist for the Women-in-Tech Awards at WTF Chicago, in Intelligence and Automation for her role as design strategist & legal tech expert for India's first Autonomous Car System. In July 2020 she has been nominated for ‘Women in AI Leadership Awards’, at Venture Beat Transform 2020 in the Women In AI Entrepreneur segment.
She had worked as an assistant director in the feature film Dedh Ishqiya. Her debut documentary film Maida (White Flour) is shot across a span of eight years and is based on social issues of dowry, child marriage and girl child education in rural India. It premiered at the Prestigious International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) in June 2019. The UK premier was at We The Peoples Film Festival, the Human Rights Documentary festival of United Nations Association( UNA-UK). It has travelled to 20 international film festivals so far.
She lives in Mumbai, India.