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I hold a PhD in Development Policy and Management and currently lectures at the Global Development Institute (GDI), The University of Manchester, where I convene the Human and Digital Development (HDD) teaching cluster which manages several key postgraduate programmes within the GDI, including the MSc degrees in Human Resource Development, ICTs for Development and, Management and Information Systems. I am a development policy and strategy expert specializing in innovation policy, national capacity development/education planning and public sector transformation in developing contexts. My current research interests focus on understanding the critical role played by leaders, elites, and coalitions in promoting or retarding development reforms, especially public sector reforms in developing countries (DCs). I am particularly interested in the ethics of leadership and the politics of trust and cooperation in public sector governance as well as how complex policy problems such as corruption and incentive structures shape the standards for public sector governance; and how these issues impact public sector employees in developing contexts. The second strand of my research explores the implications of the emerging fourth industrial revolution for the future of work and skills development in developing and transitioning contexts, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Youssef Filali-Meknassi, né en 1969 à Tanger (Maroc), est un hydrologue et fonctionnaire international. Il occupe en 2019, le poste de Directeur de la Division des Sciences de l'eau de l’UNESCO et de Secrétaire du Programme Hydrologique Intergouvernemental. En septembre 2020, il est nommé directeur du bureau régional à Quito.
Titulaire d’un diplôme en ingénierie chimique de l'Université Mohammed-V de Rabat, il poursuit des études d'ingénierie civile à l'Université de Sherbrooke en partenariat avec l'Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique du Canada (INRS). En 2003, il obtient un doctorat en sciences de l'eau à l'INRS en partenariat avec l'École Polytechnique de Montréal, et concentre ses recherches sur les méthodes d’épuration des eaux usées et sur la conception de procédés industriels et de technologiques pour améliorer la qualité de l’eau à l’effluent.
Il rejoint ensuite l'Université polytechnique de Catalogne et mène des recherches visant à éliminer les perturbateurs endocriniens (EDCs) des eaux usées avant leur rejet ou leur réintégration dans l'environnement. En 2004, il continue ses travaux à la Missouri University of Science and Technology. L'année suivante, il collabore avec l'Institut d'études géologiques des États-Unis sur un projet relatif à la décontamination chimique de La Nouvelle-Orléans suite à l'ouragan Katrina5.
En 2006, il rejoint l'UNESCO, d'abord au Maghreb puis en Afrique australe. En 2016, il est nommé au sein de la Division des Sciences de l'eau et du Secrétariat du Programme Hydrologique Intergouvernemental, et prend en charge le portefeuille d’activités sur l'éducation relative à l'eau.
S'appuyant sur les nouvelles technologies et la science ouverte, il lance en 2013 l’Initiative HOPE (Hydro Free and/or Open-source Platform of Experts) qui encourage l’utilisation des logiciels libres et gratuits pour la gestion de l'eau dans les pays en développement.
En 2017, il conceptualise la plateforme IHP-WINS, une bibliothèque en ligne collaborative hébergeant données, cartes, et documents relatifs à l'eau.
Il siège comme représentant à l'ONU-Eau (en), au Conseil d'administration de l’UNESCO-IHE et du Conseil mondial de l'eau, et est également membre du Comité de pilotage international du 9eme Forum mondial de l’eau (Pour plus d'informalltion: https://ecuador.un.org/es/about/our-team).
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technical adviser on Migration and Disability in the German /European context since 2013; current position head of Project Crossroads | Migration and Disability at Handicap International in Germany
academic Background: PhD in Social Anthropology with focus on Migration studies
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I am a Professor of the Sociology of Education working in the Centre for International Education at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. My interests are in critical approaches to development policy and practice with respect to global inequalities. I focus on educational and social differences largely (though not exclusively) through micro-level studies of the intersecting and overlapping social relations of gender, race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, religion, nation and age (youth) with implications for livelihoods, equality and social development locally and globally. I have lived and worked in several countries in the Global South and North which has highlighted for me the sustained work of education in the (re-)production and valorisation of particular colonial 'Western' knowledges that need to be addressed urgently in efforts towards greater global equity. This has significant implications for approaches to development in the explicitly or implicitly interconnected fields of theory, policy and practice as they are imagined by and impact differently on people in different local spaces.
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Associate Professor,
Institute for Development Studies,
University of Nairobi
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Historian and sociologist of Latin America in the world. Particular topics of expertise include human rights, democratisation, transitional justice, internationalism, development, and the Cold War and its impacts in Latin America. I am currently an Academic Specialist in Latin America at the University of Melbourne. Before that I was an Assistant Professor in International Studies at Leiden University.
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Dr Carrillo Lerma is currently a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies (CERI) and a Lecturer at Sciences Po - Paris. Her research interests and expertise touch upon diaspora politics, memory politics/politics of memory, social transformation, conflict transformation, and participatory research methodologies. From 2017 to 2019, Dr Carrillo Lerma served as Project Officer at the UNESCO Associated Schools Network (ASPnet). She has also worked at Eugene Lang College – The New School for Liberal Arts, UNESCO’s Social and Human Sciences Sector, the UN Department of Public Information (UN Photo Library) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). Dr Carrillo Lerma has multidisciplinary academic training which has enriched her methodological approach to social science research. She holds a PhD in Historical Studies and Politics (NSSR, 2017) and PhD in Political Science (Sciences Po, 2016), an MPhil in Comparative Politics and an MA in Historical Studies from The New School for Social Research, an MSc in International Affairs from Sciences Po, Paris, and a BA in History (with a minor in Sociology) from the Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombia).
Photo - credit must read: Catherine Gilbert.
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Mr. AHM Bazlur Rahman has been serving as Chief Executive Officer of Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio & Communication (BNNRC) since 2000. He has been struggling for the last 20 years for leveraging community media and the right to communicate in order to create successful policy advocacy in Bangladesh in line with community media development from 2000. In recognition of his outstanding and committed extraordinary services for promoting Community Media and ICT, he has awarded the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) prize in 2016, 2017, 2019 & 2020.
He is serving as a member of Community Radio Monitoring Committee of Ministry of Information, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. He is also a member of Multi-Stakeholder Steering Group (MSG) of Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) and co-founder of Bangladesh Internet Governance Forum. He was the strategic council member of UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN GAID) from the Asia and Pacific. He is serving as the three member of the jury panel for the Free Press Unlimited Newcomer of the Year in Journalism – Hans Verploeg Awards from 2016, The Netherlands.
He has been actively promoting shaping the future of Media, Entertainment and Culture in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in line with using AI, Block chain, Internet of things and Big data.
He has the unique quality of experience and contribution in an inclusive manner in multi-stakeholders of politics, development partners, the private sector, NGO & civil society, public sector, UN, policy makers, academia and media. He is known as transformational expert, visionary, and change agent. He can be reached at bnnrcbd@gmail.com | ceo@bnnrc.net
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I am a Teaching Fellow in Comparative Politics and Quantitative Methods.
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i'm ismail moahamed one of young African scholars. master students of institute of development studies,i'm also researcher,activist by and social worker humanitarian.