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Dr. Sera Young (www.serayoung.org) is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Health at Northwestern University. Dr. Young has a PhD in International Nutrition from Cornell University and a Master's in Medical Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam. She draws on her training to take a biocultural approach to understanding how mothers, especially in low-resource settings, cope to preserve their health and that of their families. Most recently, she has led efforts to develop the Household Water InSecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale, a cross-culturally valid tool to measure household water insecurity (http://hwise.org). She has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and received funding from NSF, NIH, and UKAID among others. Awards include an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship (2019) and the Margaret Mead Award for her book about pica, Craving Earth.
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Professor of Political Economy, specialising in youth, youth policy, Middle East, comparative
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Marc P. Berenson is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at King’s Russia Institute at King’s College London. Prior to joining King’s in September 2013, Dr. Berenson was serving, since 2007, as a research fellow on the Governance Team at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in Brighton. His projects on governance, public administration, state capacity and state-society relations in Poland, Russia and Ukraine have been empirically, conceptually and methodologically ground-breaking, with a particular (and particularly important) focus on the ways in which citizens’ interactions with the bureaucracy shapes and is shaped by their perceptions of the state and the meaning of their own citizenship. His recent book – Taxes and Trust: From Coercion to Compliance in Poland, Russia and Ukraine, and his articles have appeared in Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Communist Studies, Transition Politics and elsewhere. Previously, Dr. Berenson worked as a research analyst for the American Bar Association, the EastWest Institute, The Carter Center and the Strengthening Democratic Institutions Project at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He also has undertaken several consultancies, for, among others, the World Bank in Russia and the OECD’s Tax and Development Programme. After receiving his BA from Harvard University, Dr. Berenson founded and directed from 1996 to 1998 the "Law in Action" program for Freedom House in Kyiv, Ukraine, before receiving his Ph.D. in Political Science from Princeton University in 2006.
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Professor at University of Essex. Microeconomist with a special interest in decision theory, game theory, industrial organization, political economy
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I.am a passionate Farmer ready to addapt new innovation in Agriculture.
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PhD Candidate at the Oxford Department of International Development. Co-founder at Lanterne, an early stage startup that uses data to improve safety in high risk areas.
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Professor of Economics, PhD MIT
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Dr Kouhi Esfahani is a Teaching Fellow at the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, UK and the author of "Iran's Foreign Policy in the South Caucasus: Relations with Azerbaijan and Armenia". Her special research focus is Iran's politics and foreign relations and the wider research interest is security developments in the Middle East and South Caucasus.
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Am an energy access expert with sub expertise in gender and social inclusion.
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Dr. R. Shashi Kumar is a Professor and Chairman, Department of Economics, Bangalore University, Bangalore, and Director of the UGC Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, India. His main research interests are in international trade and agricultural economics. He teaches in the areas of economic development, international economics, agri-business, research methodology and economic integration. To address these issues, he employs a mix of theoretical and empirical methods.