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Kongkea Chhoeun has several years of professional experiences in the areas of development policies and program and project evaluation. He is currently a staff member of the Asian Development Bank in Phnom Penh. He also worked for United Nations Development Program, United Nations World Food Program and German Technical Cooperation. He holds a PhD in Policy and Governance from the Crawford School of Public Policy of the Australian National University (ANU). His PhD thesis evaluated Australian and Chinese scholarships aid programs to Cambodia. His research papers were accepted for presentation at Harvard University, University College London, the University of Manchester, the ANU and the University of Canberra. His articles appeared in East Asia Forum, the New Mandala, the Diplomat and Asia Times. He is a winner of two international essay competitions. He was an elected president of Cambodian Student Association in Canberra. He is a member of Asia Pacific Policy Society, Development Studies Association and European Consortium of Political Research. He also graduated with an MPA in Public Administration from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
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Nematullah Bizhan is a Lecturer in Public Policy at Australian National University. Former Research Fellow at Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, where he studied the role of identities and networks in establishing state legitimacy and effectiveness in fragile and conflict-affected societies. He is also working with the Commission on State Fragility, Growth and Development, a joint initiative of the Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government and the London School of Economics (LSE). Nematullah is also a Senior Research Associate with Oxford University's Global Economic Governance Program, a Visiting Fellow at Australian National University's Crawford School of Public Policy and the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy. He is a member of the steering committees of both the South Asia in World Politics Section of the International Studies Association (ISA) and the Oxford Network of Peace Studies (OxPeace).
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Norman Abjorensen is a Visiting Fellow in the Policy and Governance Program in the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University, Canberra. He previously taught political science at the ANU’s School of Social Sciences and at the University of Canberra.
He is a former national editor of the Sydney Morning Herald. He has taught at universities in Japan, China, and the Philippines and is currently writing a history of democracy, to be published in 2019. Since 2013, he has been part of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, producing an annual report card on the state of global democracy.
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Dr. Xiaoling Zhang is Associate Professor in the Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong. Prior academic roles have been at the University of Hong Kong, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She has a longstanding and interdisciplinary interest in remaking sustainability science and sustainable development goals. She has also engaged in environmental studies/environmental policy/climate change, particularly in the developers' behavior/ actions in contributing to social responsibility/sustainable development, land use studies, energy policy and renewable & sustainable energy use as well as the mechanisms of changes in built environment. This has led to more than 130 SCI/SSCI publications including "Energy Policy", "Land Use Policy", "Cities" etc. Her current book in planning is titled 'Remaking sustainable urbanism: space, scale, governance in the new urban era?', which will come out soon in 2018. She has organized a session on "Social-environmental justice and sustainability" in the 2015 AAG Conference at Chicago and another one on "Urban inequality and unjust sustainability in China" at 2016 AAG in San Francisco. She has worked as the Subject Editor of 'Journal of Cleaner Production' (Theme: Regional Sustainable Development Initiatives and Transformations) during the period of 2015-2017. She has also led a good number of competitive research projects including two RGC grants and two NSFC grants and several invited keynote presentations at international conferences. Dr Zhang was also the winner of the Outstanding Researcher Award for Junior Faculty 2017 and the President Awards 2016.
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Mikael Sokero (M.Soc.Sci) is specialized in design and implementation of new kind of innovative funding tools, such as challenge prize competitions. In challenge prize competitions diverse teams are co-creating solutions to grand societal challenges together with stakeholders and communities.
Mikael’s core competencies are:
Design and execution of challenge prize competitions and design of creative processes
Societal impact of research and science
Strategic development of universities
Sustainable innovations and societal transformations
Sustainable Development Goals
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I am an architect and designer trained at the Politecnico of Milano. Prior to joining the EU Policy Lab I ran a small communication and creative innovation studio and taught design and innovation at Elisava, Barcelona. I am a senior practitioner of design management, design direction, service design, design thinking and concept/context mapping and I am trained in group facilitation and participatory leadership. My key challenge is to contribute to the development of a design culture in the European Commission.
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Olusegun is a chartered accountant with a first- class degree in accounting. Olusegun has over half a decade experience working for global companies in the CPG and IT sectors. He is a passionate advocate of affordable and accessible education particularly early childhood education.
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Specialist in governance, accountability and positive challenge. Director of Public Governance Wales providing consultancy services to local and national government in Wales. Also, lead consultant for Wales for the Centre for Public Scrutiny; Associate for Governance International.
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I run ServiceWorks and am an Accredited Service Design Master and experienced consultant, trainer, facilitator and coach.
I love to see other people grow and develop beyond what they think is possible. I also love service design and the benefits it can bring to people who use services - especially in government, social housing and charities.
Combining these two great passions. I've developed learning and development programmes and courses to help others adopt the principles and practice of service design in their work. I have a warm, friendly facilitation style and a particular dislike for jargon!
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I am an anthropologist working in Indonesia. I have a great deal of leadership experience in international science organisations and numerous advisory roles.