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Analyst, researcher and author. Ghaidaa Hetou has a PhD in Political Science specializing in foreign policy, strategy, security, development, political risk and the private sector in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). She also holds an MS in Economics and MA in Global Affairs. She is fluent in Arabic, English and German.
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Ethel Brooks is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Sociology at Rutgers University and a Tate-TrAIN Transnational Fellow at the University of the Arts London, where she was the US-UK Fulbright Distinguished Chair (2011-2012). Brooks is a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, Chair of the Board of the European Roma Rights Centre, and member of the Bavarlipe Academy of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture. She has served on the US Delegation to the Human Dimension Implementation Meetings of the OSCE and spoke in the General Assembly for the United Nations Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony. Since 2007, Brooks has co-directed the Feminist Critical Analysis course in Dubrovnik; since 2015, the Summer University course on Romani Studies at CEU. Brooks is the author of the award-winning Unraveling the Garment Industry: Transnational Organizing and Women’s Work. She is currently finishing a book on Romani migration, space, belonging, gender and labor, entitled Encampments: Romani Migrations, the City and the Avant-Garde.
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Mona Lena Krook is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Women and Politics Ph.D. Program at Rutgers University. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2005 and has written widely on the diffusion and implementation of electoral quotas for women, including several award-winning books and articles. Her first book, Quotas for Women in Politics: Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide (Oxford University Press, 2009), received the American Political Science Association’s 2010 Victoria Schuck Award for Best Book on Women and Politics, as well as its 2019 George H. Hallett Award recognizing a book published at least ten years ago that has made a lasting contribution to the literature on representation and electoral systems.
Krook recently completed a multi-year project on the impact of quotas on democracy and gender equality, involving fieldwork and data collection across nine countries Western Europe, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa, funded by a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (2010-2017). Her current research focuses on violence and harassment against politically active women. Since 2015, she has collaborated with the National Democratic Institute on its #NotTheCost campaign to stop violence against women in politics. Funded by an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship (2017-2019), she has conducted fieldwork around the globe and is currently completing a book manuscript, Violence against Women in Politics, which will be published in 2020 by Oxford University Press.
A firm believer in engaging across the academic-practitioner divide, Krook has been a consultant for numerous civil society organizations, governments, and international organizations in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East on strategies to elect more women to political office and enhance the impact of female politicians.
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Nicola is a lecturer with Monash University (Australia), researching and teaching in areas of context, leadership studies, and sustainable practice. Her work in the faculty draws on over twenty years of school experience across multiple education systems, including Australia, England, Vietnam and Bangladesh. She is an invited expert to the UNESCO TTF School Leadership Network. Her research interests are in leadership, and the inclusion of marginalised voices in approaches to policy development and education systems.
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Darren Sharp is a Research Fellow at MSDI working on a Net Zero Precincts scoping study and is Chief Investigator on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus project. Darren is a sharing economy consultant and urban transitions researcher and as founding Director of Social Surplus has worked with grassroots innovators and public sector partners to develop community empowerment strategies, collaborative governance experiments and facilitate capacity-building using strength-based and design-led approaches. His recent academic publications appear in Sustainability and Urban Policy and Research.
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MBA Intern at UNESCO
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Professor of Public Health Policy and Practice
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Social Development Specialist / Researcher
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Marcelo Medeiros researches inequality in developing countries.
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I am Professor of Social Policy at University College Dublin, Ireland.
My teaching and research interests focus on housing policy and urban regeneration, particularly on:
- the management and financing of social housing
- the regeneration of social housing estates and inner urban areas
- comparative analysis of housing provision in Europe
- the history and socio-economic implications of Irish housing policy and its relationship with the welfare state.
I am interested in recruiting PhD students who would like to research any of these topics.
I have led over 20 research project on these issues since 2000 and produced over 170 publications on the results. My latest book entitled Property, Family and the Irish Welfare State was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016. I am also co-conveynor of the European Network for Housing Research Working Group on Comparative Housing Policy.
I also have very strong links with policy makers in Ireland. In 2011 I was appointed by an Taoiseach as an independent member of the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) which advises the Irish government on economic, environmental and social policy and I was appointed for a second term in 2016. In 2012 and again in 2017 I was appointed by the Minister for Housing as chair of the Housing Finance Agency (hfa.ie). The Agency raises finance on international markets which it lends on to local authorities and housing associations for the provision of housing to low income households.
In 2021 I was of one of three lead authors of a major report on affordable housing which was commissioned by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), UN Habitat and Housing Europe (which represents social housing providers in Europe). The report is titled Housing2030: Effective policies for affordable housing in the UNECE region aims to show how policymakers can improve affordable housing outcomes and support climate neutral housing provision