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Maria Pilar Lorenzo is currently a Fellow of the Regional Academy on United Nations and a Research Associate of the Philippine Society for Public Administration. She holds master's degrees in International Politics (KU Leuven), Development Studies (KU Leuven), and Public Administration (University of the Philippines). Recently, she was selected and featured by the YSEALI Women’s Leadership Academy as one of the 2020 cohort of women leaders in Southeast Asia.
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Executive Director - Global Buildings Performance Network (www.gbpn.org), an international network of experts dedicated to achieving the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from the buildings sector.
Associate Professor - Architectural Technologies at Monash University, Australia (www.monash.edu/mada)
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I am a sociologist interested in the transformations of healthcare, particularly through the introduction of new health technologies or extending existing technologies to new patient groups. I conduct qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research. My research has looked at the social and ethical issues around genomic medicine (including genetic testing and screening and genome editing), synthetic biology (including cultured blood and induced pluripotent stem cell therapy), and (pandemic and seasonal) influenza vaccines and HPV vaccines.
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Dr Matias Margulis is Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Faculty of Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia. His research and teaching interests are are interdisciplinary and cut across the fields of global development, human rights, international law and global food politics. Dr Margulis' work has been published in journals such as Review of International Political Economy, Global Governance, World Trade Review, Globalizations, Geopolitics and his edited books include The Global Political Economy of Raúl Prebisch (Routledge 2017) and Land Grabbing and Global Governance (Routledge 2014, edited with Nora McKeon and Saturnino Borras, Jr.).
In addition to his academic research, Dr Margulis has extensive professional experience in the field of international policymaking. He is a former Canadian represenative to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Trade Organization (WTO). He has also advised the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and the Scottish Parliament and consulted for international NGOs and the Brookings Institution.
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Developing the Australian Transition Academy at Monash Sustainable Development Institute (MSDI) in partnership with the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT). I am a research analyst, educator and socio-environmental planner with expertise in the coordination and delivery of sustainability strategies, social and environmental assessments, and education programs.