Ivana Dobrotić is Marie Curie Fellow at Department of Social Policy and Intervention. Ivana’s research is focused on comparative social policy with a particular interest in care-related leave policies and services, early childhood education, gender, and social inequalities. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Master in Social Work from the University of Zagreb (Croatia). She is a member of the international research network International Network on Leave Policies and Research and the EU working group Work-life Balance Indicators.

I'm a project manager at the Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme at the University of Iceland.

Dr Gaio has worked and researched in the cultural and creative sector for over 25 years, in the UK and internationally. In her time as an academic at City, University of London she has taught, researched and currently leads the MA Culture, Policy and Management – this was a pioneer degree in this area of studies in the world with alumni from 100 countries who now operate in the global creative industries. Her research interests include the formation of public policy and in particular cultural policy in the context of the European Union, and the evolution of the non-profit paradigm in creative and cultural organisations. Ana was part of the team that developed the UK’s Creative Industries Mapping Document for the UK’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport in 2001 which provided a blueprint for creative industries development in many other parts of the world. She currently serves on the Skills Working Group of the UK’s Creative Industries Federation, is a Vice-President of ENCATC (the European network for cultural policy and management education and research) and is also on the board of the American Association of Arts Administration Educators.

Liselotte Odgaard is visiting senior fellow at Hudson Institute. Her work focuses on U.S.-China-Europe relations. Odgaard has been a visiting scholar at institutions such as Harvard University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Norwegian Nobel Institute. She is the author of numerous monographs, books, peer-reviewed articles, and research papers on Chinese and Asia-Pacific security, and she is a frequent commentator on these issues in the media. She regularly participates in policy dialogues such as the Arctic Circle Assembly in Iceland and the Xiangshan Forum in Beijing. She received her bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. in political science from Aarhus University in Denmark, as well as a master’s degree in international studies from the University of Warwick in the UK.