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Albert Sabater is Serra Húnter Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of the Observatory for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (OEIAC in Catalan), and Coordinator of Studies of the Master in Business Economics at the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Business at the University of Girona.
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Dr. Mark Hellowell is Director of the Global Health Policy Unit (GHPU) at the University of Edinburgh. Mark’s research focuses on health financing and public/private sector roles in the delivery of healthcare. He has worked with a wide range of national and international organisations on health systems strategies, including the Department for International Development (DfID), the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and the Global Financing Facility.
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Simon Rushton is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield, UK, and an Associate Fellow at the Centre on Global Health Security at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London. His research interests focus on the global politics of health and on participatory research methods. His work has looked in particular at international responses to HIV/AIDS and other diseases; the links between health and national security; the changing architecture of global health governance; and issues surrounding health care delivery in conflict and other crisis situations. He has a growing interest in participatory research methodologies, including Participatory Video, which he is currently using on projects in Nepal and Colombia.
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Harvard Kennedy School Fellow focusing on gender and politics with the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP). More at https://wappp.hks.harvard.edu/people/giovana-rodrigues-manfrin
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First year PhD student at the University of Cambridge, conducting a PhD in History looking into the relationship between US land institutions and violence against the Nevada City Nisenan Tribe, with the aim of informing and expanding contemporary political science understandings of the relationships between Western institutions and intractable land conflict. I have diverse subject matter experience in CSO and INGO sustainability; atrocity prevention; evaluation of pb effectiveness; conflict analysis; research ethics; and local and global relations in development and peacebuilding.
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I am the Editorial and Social Media Assistant for United Nation University Centre for Policy Research's Modern Slavery Programme, working closely with Delta 8.7, the Alliance 8.7 Knowledge Platform. This platform is dedicated to helping translate data, evidence and research on SDG Target 8.7 issues, forced labour, modern slavery, human trafficking and child labour, into effective policy. In other words, bridging the knowledge gap between researchers and policy actors.
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Research Fellow, Center for Global Development
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Dr. Gutu Olana Wayessa is a University Lecturer at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He received BSc from Haramaya University, Ethiopia; MSc from Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway; and Ph.D. in Social Sciences, Development Studies from the University of Helsinki, Finland. He was (1 February to 31 July 2019) a Visiting Research Scholar at the American University, Washington DC, USA. His research interests include displacements and resettlements, climate change, large-scale investments, land governance, environmental and social justice, state-society relations, social movements, and rural livelihoods. His theoretical and methodological interests encompass political ecology, political economy, philosophy of science, and mixed methods.
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I am a law and policy specialist with experience working in sub-Saharan Africa, specifically Eastern, Western and Southern Africa. My expertise lies in Law, governance and development. I possess a Bachelors, Masters and a Doctoral degree in law and various development certificates. My research focus is on the role of law in development processes within Africa. My expertise lies in Law, governance and development. My interest is in employing legal doctrines, principles, tools and practices to address everyday development challenges facing people in the global South, specifically in Africa. I engage the study of the rule of law in inclusive development through all its aspects: socioeconomic, development, human development and political development. Currently I am working on issues of promotion of socio-economic and development rights; displacement; and legal/economic empowerment in transition/fragile states.
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Karen is Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics at the University of Birmingham in the School of Law and the School of Computer Science. She is involved in several technology policy and related initiatives in the UK and worldwide, including those concerned with the governance of AI, one of her key research interests. In particular, she is a member of the EU’s High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (since June 2018) and a Member and Rapporteur for the Council of Europe’s Expert Committee on human rights dimensions of automated data processing and different forms of artificial intelligence (MSI-AUT) and special adviser to Council of Europe's European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC), Working Group of Experts on AI and the Criminal Law.