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Education Researcher in Indonesia, focusing on Low-Cost Education Services
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Cultural/ Creative/ Community Sectors; Research; Producing; Evaluation; Facilitation; Experienced in Creative Action Research
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Michael Bailey teaches in the Sociology Department at the University of Essex. He is author or editor (some jointly) of Understanding Richard Hoggart: A Pedagogy of Hope (2012); Richard Hoggart: Culture and Critique (2012); The Assault on Universities: A Manifesto for Resistance (2011); Mediating Faiths: Religion and Socio-Cultural Change (2011) and Narrating Media History (2009). His research interests include Media Reform, Media and Democracy, Populism, and Cultural History.
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Professor, Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Dr. Jean-Paul Faguet is Professor of the Political Economy of Development at the London School of Economics, and Chair of the Decentralization Task Force at Columbia University’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue. He has published in the economics, political science, and development literatures, including Is Decentralization Good for Development? Perspectives from Academics and Policymakers (Oxford, 2015), and Decentralization and Popular Democracy: Governance from Below in Bolivia (Michigan), which won the W.J.M. Mackenzie Prize for best political science book of 2012.
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I am a sociologist with extensive experience in international development research and practice focusing on human development, inequality, and environmental sustainability. I am currently a Senior Sustainable Development Officer with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in the Division for Sustainable Development Goals. In this role I lead research and analysis to identify new and emerging issues relevant to sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda with an emphasis on interlinkages across Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Previously, I was a senior researcher with the UN Development Programme's flagship Human Development Report. I co-authored six Reports and led analysis on globalization and the digital frontier, sustainability and inequality, poverty, gender gaps, and social exclusion among others. I also calculated composite indices including the Human Development Index and the Multidimensional Poverty Index.
Other experience at the UN has included work with the Statistics Division, compiling environmental statistics and drafting a handbook for countries to monitor progress toward the MDGs; and with UNDP Mongolia assessing the economic, social and environmental impacts of different types of energy efficient technologies in housing. I have also worked in the private sector as a transportation engineer and in academia, including fieldwork in Sudan and Indonesia.
I hold a PhD in Sociology from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University as well as a B.S. in Civil Engineering. I was also a Postdoctoral Research Scholar with the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University.
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12 years of experience in international development. In my current role, I advise the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on a wide range of institutional issues related to programmatic partnerships with donors (mainly in Switzerland and France), sister UN agencies, international organisations, civil society/NGOs, think-tanks and the private sector.
Previously work experiences in UNDP (working closely with the rest of the UN system), NGOs/think tanks and private sector in Switzerland, USA, Haiti, France, Cambodia, Kenya, DRC and Canada.
Thematic areas of expertise: integrated approaches for sustainable development, democratic governance and poverty reduction strategies, conflict research, crisis response and recovery.
Other specific interests include: social entrepreneurship / SSE, impact investing, corporate social responsibility, pro-poor market development/support to inclusive business, livelihoods creation /support to SMEs.
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Chief Economist, UNDP Africa
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Eleanor is Senior Research Associate on the Exploring the Role of Volunteers in Care Settings (ERVIC) and the Provision of Social Care in Extra Care Housing (ECHO) Project in the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. She recently completed her PhD, which was an ethnographic study of care work in residential homes for older people. Eleanor also has extensive experience of working as a care worker in the social care sector.
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I am a Brazilian consultant, researcher and speaker, holding an MA in International Relations and Cultural Diplomacy from Furtwangen University- Berlin Germany where I currently live. With experiences Latin America, East-Africa and Europe, my areas of expertise include: cultural and creative industries and sustainable development; the role of creative clusters and hubs in local development; participatory and good governance in culture.
As an independent consultant, I started my career in 2010 and more recently I started developing works in associating with two main creative economy players from the UK: Tom Fleming Creative Consultancy and BOP Consulting. Through capacity-building, strategic planning, research and evaluation services, it is my drive to support cultural and creative entrepreneurs, policymakers, practitioners and organizations to convert their potential into actions that can generate economic and social benefits.