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I serve as the CEQ Institute’s Data Center Director. I am also the lead author of the CEQ Assessment for Chile, Panama, and Senegal, and the technical advisor for the CEQ Assessments for Paraguay. I have also collaborated on research related to poverty and public policy as a consultant for the World Bank, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the United Nations Development Program, among other organizations. I also served as an analyst at the Ministry of Finance of Chile. I hold a master’s degree in public policy from Columbia University.
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Ama Pokuaa Fenny is a research fellow with the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economics Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana. Since 2005, she has researched and published in the area of developmental issues in health economics, health service delivery, social protection and gender-based analysis. Her research at Chatham House focuses on how the poor can be integrated into social health insurance programs in Sub-Saharan African countries. She has also carried out a number of expenditure tracking surveys and health expenditure reviews with country experience across West and East Africa. She has a PhD in Health Economics from the Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark; MSc in Health, Population & Society from the London School of Economics & Political Science (UK) and BA in Economics and Computer Science from the University of Ghana.
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Vicente Paolo B. Yu III served as the Deputy Executive Director of the South Centre (July 2016-June 2018), the intergovernmental policy research institution of developing countries, and currently coordinates the Centre’s work on global governance, climate change, investment, South-South cooperation, and sustainable development issues. His substantive policy work includes overseeing the policy research and analysis and the provision of technical policy and legal advice to developing country governments, including on the right to development, international environmental law, development economics, international climate change policy, and South-South cooperation. He obtained his political science (with honors) and law degrees from the University of the Philippines, and his master of laws degree (with honors, specializing in international trade law and international environmental law) from Georgetown University where he was a Fulbright Scholar. Prior to joining the South Centre, he worked for Friends of the Earth International (FOEI) and was a Staff Attorney and head for Research and Policy Development of the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center (LRC) in the Philippines. He has taught law at the University of the Philippines. He has also been a consultant for various United Nations agencies, providing research and training/capacity building services on development policy and on climate change issues. He has published papers and articles on issues relating to trade and environment, energy policy, mining policy, sustainable development, environmental policy, climate change policy, South-South cooperation, and indigenous peoples' rights.
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Ms Reka TOZSA is responsible for Education Policy project development and management at the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF). ASEF is an intergovernmental not-for-profit organisation located in Singapore. Founded in 1997, it is the only institution of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM).
Prior to joining ASEF, Reka worked as the Head of International Office at the National University of Public Service in Hungary. Her role was to design and implement the international mobility scheme of the university, to plan joint project with strategic partners, and to build the international brand of the university. Reka had been working as a civil servant before, at the National Institution of Public Administration and the Ministry of Human Resources, State Secretariat for Higher Education and Science Policy. Reka obtained her first degree at the Corvinus University of Budapest in Public Administration, and successfully completed the Master in Public Administration program at the National University of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
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Oscar BOIJE is a Finnish national with partially Bolivian origins. He joined the Asia-Europe Foundation's (ASEF) Education Department in 2016. Oscar coordinates the ASEF Young Leaders Programme, including the ASEF Young Leaders Summit (ASEFYLS), ASEF Summer University (ASEFSU) and the Model ASEM projects, as well as supports projects under the ASEF Education Policy and the ASEF Teaching & Learning programmes.
Oscar is an International Human Rights Law (LL.M) graduate from Lund University in Sweden. He has also conducted exchange studies in Colombia and degree studies in Finland, where he obtained his Bachelor (B.Soc.Sci.) and Master (M.Soc.Sci) in International Public Law. Prior to joining ASEF, Oscar lived in Belgium where he was the Partnership Manager of the Erasmus Student Network (ESN), Europe’s largest student organisation.
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Co-Founder, The Circular Classroom
Social Enterprise based in Singapore that works towards net-zero schools
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Professor of economics in Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.
My major is public policy in the field of cultural economics, and income distribution.
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James Chan is an Autistic individual living in Singapore. He currently works at Asia-Europe Foundation at an Advisor on Inclusion and Diversity.
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Clinical Associate Professor at the W.P. Carey School of Business (Arizona State University) and nonresident research associate of Commitment to Equity Institute at Tulane University. My research has focused on fiscal policy effects on poverty and income distribution in Brazil and the empirics of monetary policy and the role of the financial sector in Brazil.
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Economist, working on social protection financing at the Social Protection Department of the ILO. Head of Public Finance, Actuarial and Statistics Unit.