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Sean is developing a workstream on Just Transition at TASC - the Think Tank for Action on Social Change - in Ireland. This work aims to identify and address knowledge and capacity deficits that must be overcome in order to include workers and their communities the design, planning and implementation of a fair transition to sustainable economies and societies. The findings will help to inform people-centred climate action and sustainable development in Ireland and Europe.
Sean holds an B.Sc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in Development Practice awarded by Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin. Prior to joining TASC, Sean worked as a Policy Officer with the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice for five years. During this time he engaged with the negotiations leading to the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. He also led the Foundation’s work on intergenerational equity. Sean spent five years working in the private sector, as a catastrophe risk analyst with Renaissance Reinsurance. He also spent 2 years working in a hospice in Kolkata, India, and worked with the Environmental Protection Agency in Sierra Leone building the agencies capacity in Geographic Information Systems.
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I am a research assistant and PhD aspirant. My interests are energy and environmental policy, climate change and sustainable development
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Corneliu Bjola is Associate Professor in Diplomatic Studies at the University of Oxford and Head of
Faculty Fellow at the Center on Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California and as a Professorial Lecturer at the
Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. He has authored or edited six books, including the twin volumes on Countering Online Propaganda and Violent Extremism: The Dark Side of Digital Diplomacy (2018) and Digital Diplomacy: Theory and Practice (2015). His work has been published in the European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies, Ethics and International Affairs, International Negotiation, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Global Policy, Journal of Global Ethics and the Hague Journal of Diplomacy. @cbjola www.cbjola.com
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Lisa A. Gennetian is a Research Professor, Institute for Human Development and Social Change, New York University. Dr. Gennetian’s research portfolio spans poverty and policy research, income security and stability, early care and education, and children’s development, with a lens toward causal mechanisms. Her work with Dr. Eldar Shafir “The Persistence of Poverty in the Context of Economic Instability: A Behavioral Perspective,” describes a behavioral framework for poverty programs and policy. In 2015 she launched the beELL initiative; applying insights from behavioral economics to support parent engagement in, and enhance the impacts of, early childhood interventions. She is co-PI on a large randomized control study of a monthly unconditional cash transfer to low income mothers of infants, co-PI at the National Center for Research on Hispanic Families and Children directing research on Hispanic family poverty and economic health; and, has served as an Associate Editor of Child Development since 2012.
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PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHER ,
PHD CANDIDATE Department of Education Sciences in Early Childhood
DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION SCIENCES
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Sanjib Pohit is a Professor at NCAER. He is an experienced modeler in the area of trade and environment with 20 years of modelling experience. His domain of research experience includes science and technology policies, institutional economics, transport economics, input-output models, FDI, informal trade, automobile industry, and South Asian integration. Previously, he held position at CSIR-National Institute of Science, Technology & Development Studies as Professor AcSIR & Senior Principal Scientist. He has served as members of several committees of Government of India including climate Change Modelling group of Ministry of Environment & Forests. He was educated at Indian Statistical Institute.
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Leticia dos Muchangos has been working on the development of education programmes for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals–the focus being on gender-responsive approaches for sustainable consumption and production.
She is also working on the theme of effective solid waste management systems in urban areas of low-income countries, with a case study based in the capital of Mozambique.
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Consulting EconomistConsulting Economist for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
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My background is in Political Science, International Relations and African History, with interests in Global Affairs, International Security, Foreign Policy and Electoral Integrity.
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Researcher and data scientist with a background in UN consulting and policy analysis.