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I'm a researcher at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies in Hamburg, Germany, specializing in comparative governance, regime stability, and security. My regional focus is on the Middle East, North Africa, and the Sahel.
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Sharon Attipoe-Dorcoo, Ph.D., MPH, Principal of TERSHA LLC, is first and foremost grounded in her cultural identity as a Ghanaian-American and embraces her other intersectional facets of being a wife and mom in her work. She is a former board member and sits on the Education Council of AcademyHealth, author of a children’s book, poet, and consultant. Dr. Attipoe-Dorcoo is a member of the Advancing
Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation Network and has a certificate in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from the University of South Florida. She is also an Adjunct Professor at TWU.
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Temitope Toyon is a DPhil student in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, funded by the Leverhulme Biopsychosocial Scholarship. She is supervised by Professor Jane Barlow and seeks to investigate how poverty and social inequality affects neurodevelopment in early childhood. Her research focuses on maternal food insecurity in pregnancy, and its effect on child neurological disorders. She is also keen on understanding the cost-effectiveness of food insecurity interventions, and how evidence-based research can influence health policies.
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Lukas Lehner is a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford. He was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley and at MIT. Previously, he worked at the OECD in Paris and the International Labour Organization in Geneva.
His resarch focuses on the consequences of labor market policies in a changing world of work. He examines how labor market policies affect unemployment, and how changes in worker organization shape wages and inequalities. More information on his research are on his website: https://lukaslehner.github.io/.
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BA in Communications, and an MA in Cultural Studies. Currently, work as a researcher and professor on issues related to the ethics and governance of AI, focusing on finding solutions to biases towards gender, race, and other forms of diversity that are often excluded or marginalized in the constitution of the data that feeds these technologies. They are the Chair of the Gender Standing Group and is also the coordinator of YouthLACIGF and Youth IGF Colombia. Their research topics include mass media, the internet, the rights of youth, women, and gender-diverse people, AI governance and similar
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Mendy Shozi is an environmental scientist who works as a Researcher in Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WaSH). Her focus is Citywide Inclusive Sanitation, Policy, Circular Economy, Resource Recovery and Sustainable Development. She works at the UKZN WASH R&D Centre, a transdisciplinary research and development hub in Africa that produces next-generation solutions for global water and sanitation challenges. Mendy is a Young Water Professional and is the founder and president of the South Africa Youth Parliament for Water (a network of passionate youth making waves of change in the water sector).
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Assistant professor at the School of Government at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. PhD in Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Visiting Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the LSE and Associate at The Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School (INET Oxford).
Working on the causes, consequences and measurement of economic inequality.
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/rcarranzan/
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Senior Research Fellow and Head of Digital Economy Program at the African Center for Technology Studies; Lecturer at Technical University of Kenya in Computer Science and Robotics. I have lectured Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Robotics and Cybernetics, for over 10 years.
My research interests are; Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Responsible/Ethical AI, IoT and Industry 4.0.
I have also led, and still leading, projects about application of responsible AI and machine learning on digital agriculture, and on the nexus of agriculture and climate.
I have also founded an innovation lab at the Technical University of Kenya, developed 3 innovative prototypes, and filed 6 patent applications to Kenya Industrial Property Institute (KIPI) with three already certified as a patent.
I have designed innovative digital systems for various organizations.
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Abdulmalik Amer is a researcher and analyst on political affairs, development, peace and foreign policy issues in the Middle East. He has a background as an expert for many years in think tanks and a trusted advisor to many opinion leaders and policymakers. Mr. Amer is an active and influential member of the political sphere in Jordan, and is trusted to advise and brief many other countries in the Middle East.
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I am an architect and social scientist (Ph.D. 2021, University of Cambridge) with 10 years of experience working on cities in Colombia, the United States, Benin, Italy, and the United Kingdom, including attracting and managing research grants and teams. As researcher and consultant for international and local organisations, I employ mixed-method research and ethnographic tools to understand in depth complex processes of social and spatial change related to urbanisation, migration, racism, human rights, civic participation, and the 'digital turn'.