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Research Officer in the Equity and Social Policy team in ODI focusing on social protection.
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Working with IPA on Research and Policy in East Africa
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Mr. Sapp is CEO of an NGO in Consultative Status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Our objective, the return and resettlement of descendants of enslaved Africans in the USA.
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Accomplished Consultant with 19+ years of professional experience in IT Service Management, IT Governance, Risk & Compliance and Information Security.
Possess experience of working with Government, Semi-Government and Private sector in geographies such as United States of America, Middle East and India and demonstrated ability to design and deliver assignments efficiently, managing change, organizational culture and resource capacity. Keen on applying best practices from business sector projects in public consulting and government sector in order to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and impact. Implemented ISO 20000:2011 and 27001:2013 certifications and GRC - Governance, Risk, and Compliance for multiple customers.
• Experienced in designing and implementing processes, policies and procedures, conducting audits, performing risk assessments. Standards / Frameworks used: ISO 20000:2011, ISO 31000, EBIOS, ISO 27001:2013, COBIT 5, NESA, NCEMA, NIST, DGISR & ITIIL V3.
• Experience of handling Risk and Compliance (GRC). Possess experience of handling software development, Service Management and Project Management for a large US based financial organization
• Participated in developing ISO model for IT Governance on behalf of ISACA USA (ISO 38501, 38503,30105). Currently working on evaluating ISO 20000 on behalf of BSI
• Nominated to Beta Gamma Sigma society - An honor society for the excellence in study of business. Dean’s list Awardee for academic performance from Asian Institute of Management. Performance award (Star of the quarter) from TATA Consultancy Services for managing technology change implementation project
• Conducted research on Child Mortality - Millennium Development Goal (MDG) - in Indonesian context and came up with an innovative solution based on best practices followed in IT sector.
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Paul M.A. Baker, Ph.D., is the Senior Director, Research and Strategic Innovation at the Center for Advanced Communications Policy (CACP), and Principal Research Scientist with the School of Public Policy. Recent research projects include innovation driven workforce development, mapping innovation networks in postsecondary education, disability and healthtech policy assessment and implementation of accessible technologies. His work in policy studies include barriers to the adoption of wireless technologies by people with disabilities, teleworking and people with disabilities; social media innovation, online collaboration and virtual communities. He is also involved in international policy research and collaborative policy networks, especially as it relates to issues of technology and usability policy, workforce development and innovation diffusion.
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She is an experienced lecturer at both the postgraduate and undergraduate courses on environmental management, sustainability and climate justice and supervises thesis to doctorate level. Tahseen's current research interests include the justice and equity aspects of climate change, gender and poverty targeting, climate migration and conflict, the psycho-social impacts of climate change, and the geo-political nature of climate justice discourse.
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Interested in digital information management.
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Binyam Sisay Mendisu is an Ethiopian Linguist turned teacher policy and science for policy specialist. He has a PhD in Linguistics from University of Oslo, was Next Einstein Forum (NEF) Ambassador (2017-2019), the 2019 Research Associate of the International Network of Government Science Advice (INGSA), and serves on the steering committee of the Africa Science Leadership Program (ASLP) based at the Future Africa Campus of the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Since 2016, he is working as a program officer for teacher education and curriculum development at UNESCO International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA).
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I am a Lecturer in Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London. I have a PhD in Political Science (UCL, 2017) and an MSc in Political Economy for the University of Essex (2011) and a BA in International Relations (ITESO, Mexico 2006). Before joining Royal Holloway, I was a postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Strathclyde.
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Giacomo Benedetto holds a Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London. Before moving to his current post, he held a lectureship in European Politics at the University of Manchester. He was awarded a PhD in Political Science by the London School of Economics, the subject of which was “Institutionalised Consensus in the European Parliament”. He teaches university courses on the history, theory, political development, budgets, and public policy of the European Union.
He is a co-author of the Study on the Potential and Limitations of Reforming the Financing of the EU Budget prepared for the EU's High Level Group on Own Resources, and he has authored briefings and provided evidence on the EU’s budget for the Budgets and Budgetary Control Committees of the European Parliament. He has published on matters concerning the EU budget in scientific journals, and he has co-edited with Simona Milio a collection of essays on the reform of the EU budget published by Palgrave-Macmillan in 2012.