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I am a Project Manager for Women Economic Empowerment and Youth life skills trainer
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Peter is an expert in regional demography and environment in developmental states, particularly with respect to ageing and depopulating communities in East Asia and the Pacific Rim. He has researched socio-economic development and social inclusion in regional communities in Japan, New Zealand, and China. In addition he has expertise in gender and development in employment under rapid development in East Asia. He publishes regularly in academic and non-academic forums, and has consulted with governments (local and national), NGOs and educational institutions. He welcomes the opportunity to engage with practitioners and policy makers worldwide.
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Education Specialist at IYF
Profile Territorial Planning and Local Development
area of interest; education, social development
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Program Manager at International Youth Foundation
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UNESCO Chair Project Manager UNESCO Chair Project Manager
"Transforming the Lives of People with Disabilities, their Families and Communities, Through Physical Education, Sport, Recreation and Fitness".
Institute of Technology Tralee
Co Kerry
Ireland
Phone: +353 66 7144194
Mobile: +353 87 2868250
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Dr J. Simon Rofe is Reader in Diplomatic and International Studies in the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, the School’s Academic Head of Online Learning, and Programme Director for MA Global Diplomacy, at SOAS University of London. His research focuses upon diplomacy, international and global history, with a particular focus upon diplomacy and sport. He is the author and editor of a number of books and academic and non-academic articles. Articles include: 'Sport and Diplomacy: A Global Diplomacy Framework.' Diplomacy and Statecraft, 27 (2). pp. 212-230. 2016; '"Strenuous Competition on the field of play, Diplomacy off it" – The 1908 London Olympics, Theodore Roosevelt, Arthur Balfour, and Transatlantic Relations'. w/ Alan Tomlison, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, (15) 1, pp 60-79, 2016; and 'It is a squad game: Manchester United as a diplomatic non-state actor in international affairs.' Sport in Society, 17 (9). pp. 1136-1154. 2014. Selected books include: Sport and Diplomacy: Games within Games (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018): The London Embassy – 70 Years in Grosvenor Square 1939-2009, with Alison Holmes (Palgrave: London, 2012); International History and International Relations, with Andrew Williams and Amelia Hadfield (Routledge: Basingstoke, 2012).
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I have worked on various cross-sector, systems change efforts in and across different parts of the globe for more than 15 years. I currently work in philanthropy, collaboration, and capacity building, particularly in agroecological research.
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Currently professor of gerontology and social policy, school of social and political sciences , Melbourne. I have worked as a community psychologist in London's East End, at the UK Social Work Council, Keele University, Kings College London and now The University of Melbourne and BSL, a local NGO. Most of my work has been on adult ageing, looking at national and international policy. I've done research on, consumption and identity of midlifers, psychodynamic approaches to adult ageing, elder abuse, intergenerational relations, older workers, regulation and organisations, working with NGOs, and public attitudes to dementia. The latest book is called 'negotiating ageing: cultural adaptation to the prospect of a long life'.
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Andy is an expert on the topic of the cultural industries. He has held academic appointments at University College London and LSE, King’s College, London. He joined City University London in 2013. Andy established and was founding chair of the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at KCL; and is currently Director of the Centre for Culture and the Creative Industries at City University. Andy specializes the analysis of the cultural industries globally. This research has three strands. The first focuses on the social and economic dynamics of clustering and knowledge exchange. The second strand concerns the definition and measurement of employment in the cultural, or creative, industries. The third concerns cultural governance and policy making at the national, regional and urban scales. He has developed definitions of the cultural sector that are used as standard measures of trade and employment by UNCTAD and UNESCO. Andy has made a notable contribution (textually and methodologically) to all iterations of the “Creative Economy Report’; and to the World Cities Culture Report. He has just completed the first systematic comparison of cultural employment in North America and Europe for NESTA and a report on Creative Hubs for the British Council. Andy has worked as a consultant or advisor for national and urban cultural and creative industry policy makers globally, and specifically reports for the EU, Council of Europe, UNESCO, UNCTAD, and WIPO, and the British Council.
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Education Economist and Policy Analyst