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Dr. Jiang is a staff water and environmental economist at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education in the Netherlands. He previously also worked as senior researcher, assistant professor, and consultant across academia, government agencies, and international organizations including VU University Amsterdam, Michigan State University, the National Science Foundation of the U.S., and the World Bank. Trained as an applied economist with a Ph.D. degree in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Dr Jiang has background in both science and engineering as well by formal educational training. He has rich experience working at the interface of science, economics and policy, and most of his research work involves quantitative economic modelling and integrated approach to environmental and natural resource management and policy in a multidisciplinary setting. Previous research activities encompass climate change and policy, weather and food security, land use policy, conservation biology, water resource management, integrated assessment of agricultural and environmental policy, and environmental valuation. His scholarly research work has led to publications in leading peer-reviewed professional journals such as Ecological Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy, Environmental Science and Policy, and Journal of Environmental Management.
At IHE Delft, Dr Jiang coordinates and teaches water economics, and contributes economics lectures to other courses across master of science programs, such as IWRM as a tool for adaptation to climate adaptation, strategic delta and river basin planning, and wetlands for livelihood. He has delivered many capacity building workshops abroad mainly in eastern African countries on ecosystem services assessment and economic valuation. In addition, Dr Jiang also mentors graduate student research in water, climate change, and agriculture and environment related issues in developing countries. His recent interest is to explore policy and management innovations and capacity building to bridge the finance sector and the water and environment sector promoting the achievement of SDGs.
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Brian Holland is an internationally recognized expert in the design and implementation of urban and workforce development policies and initiatives. He identifies trends and facilitates strategic approaches for TANF and WIOA coordination and integrated service delivery for underserved populations. Other previous positions held include: Deputy Director, Workforce Development, DC Department of Employment Services; Executive Director, National Workforce Development Agency in the Cayman Islands; Senior Manager, JBS International and Deloitte & Touche; Regional Director, Strategic Partnerships LLC; and Assistant Vice President for National Community Reinvestment Act compliance at Citigroup. He has also had extensive consulting experience in workforce development across the United States and is currently on the roster of On-Call Experts at Eurofound, UNDP, ILO and the World Bank. He is an Adjunct Lecturer at American University's School of Public Affairs and has previously taught at Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University and the USDA Graduate School, was a Visiting Fellow at the Urban Institute and was designated in 2018 as a Fellow at the Global Labor Organization. With diverse educational backgrounds in political philosophy (BA, New York University), public policy and urban planning (MPA and MS, Columbia University), he has published academic articles and conceptual framework pieces, including a set of urban policy typologies and an employability index as an alternative outcomes framework for workforce development. These analyses and perspectives have been cited by researchers and used by practitioners in the United States and internationally.
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PhD Candidate in Economics, Columbia University
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I am Professor of Knowledge and Capacity Development for the water sector at IHE Delft Int. Inst. for Water Education in The Netherlands. I have worked for 40 years across the world on policy, programming and implementation. I worked 20 years as Sector Leader at the World Bank and am currently engaged at the Global Center for Climate Adaptation. I am interested in knowledge generation and dissemination and how it can be embedded in individuals and institutions.
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I am an environmental anthropologist and with a specific interest in understanding how society and culture cope with and adapt to climate change. I received my Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science with Development Studies at the University of Sussex (Brighton, United Kingdom), and subsequently obtained my MSc in Development and Rural Innovation at Wageningen University and Research Centre (Wageningen, The Netherlands).
In 2014, I joined the CGIAR Research Program on Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics (Humidtropics) as a junior researcher at Wageningen University and Research Centre, working on understanding scaling processes of agroecology in Nicaragua. In 2015, I moved within the Humidtropics programme to the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), and was based in Burundi, and subsequently Uganda. Here I was part of research that was aimed at understanding the psychobehavioural and institutional barriers and catalysts in scaling processes (ex-post) of Banana Xanthomonos Wilt (BXW, an aggressive disease in bananas) control methods across Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.
I then moved to work that was based at IITA in Uganda within the CGIAR Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, where I worked within the Cocoa and Coffee research team, focussing mainly on the coffee value chain. The main focus of my work here was on the private sector engagement, where understanding coffee companies perceptions on climate change and how novel ideas from IITA and other knowledge partners could be integrated into their farmer outreach programmes. I also did a short project on the use of Photo Voice as a means of capturing coffee farmers’ perception of the impacts of climate change on their community.
My most recent position was as a Junior Researcher on Citizen Science at IHE Delft, and my most recent work is within the Ground Truth 2.0 project, which has set up and is validating six citizen observatories in real conditions, in four European and two African demonstration cases, and Women and Water for Change in Communities, which aims to promote women and youth as leaders, entrepreneurs and sustainability change agents in rural communities.
I am currently working as a Freelancer.
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Basima Sisemore is a researcher for the Global Justice Program at the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research is global in scope, and examines structural inequalities concerning global food systems, migration, climate change, and inclusivity.
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Ph.D. student - University of Edinburgh, School of Social and Political Science
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I am currently Associate Director of Early Years at the Education Policy Institute, an independent, impartial and evidence-based research organisation based in London (UK) that aims to promote high quality education outcomes. I earned a doctorate in Educational Leadership with a focus on early childhood education from Mills College, in California. My dissertation centred on the challenges of, and opportunities for, career preparedness and professional development of early years practitioners working in policy and advocacy organizations.
I spent the almost 10 years working in the early childhood sector in the United States, first as a teacher and then as a researcher and policy associate for local government and research institutes. I led data collection efforts on topics such as funding and workforce professional development and conducted analyses on areas such as educational leadership and systems integration. In England since 2017, I continue my work by providing evidence-based research to policy-makers, particularly on topics such as workforce professionalism and structural and process elements of high quality early childhood provision.
My background includes almost ten years in the field of international development as project officer and researcher, specialising in the analysis of credit and insurance markets, land reform and nutrition.
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I'm working as research support and project manager at the Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets at the Stockholm School of Economics. We try to establish a solid exchange between research findings, different societal stakeholders and effective forms of sustainability education. Students, business managers and policy makers are among the most important actors for societal change, and if we manage to create space for regular and serious exchange and collective engagement in testing new approaches, this can be a big step towards more sustainable development.
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Social science researcher with RTI International and PhD student in social policy at London School of Economics