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I am an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wales , Director of UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES UK Hub and Dept Exec. of the global BRIDGES coalition that champions transdisciplinary humanities-driven sustainability science. I am a Director of the Educere Alliance (Oxford University) and Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences. I have research expertise in socio-cultural meanings of water and Indigenous environmental knowledge and practices (specifically with regards the Kogi in Colombia and Giriama horticulturalists and herders in rural Kenya) and climate change adaptation.
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Wan Azman is an Associate Professor at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). He received his Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of Southampton, UK. He served as the Head of Economics from 2011 to 2014 and from 2018 to 2020. He is the Head of Malaysia Chapter committee for the International Finance and Banking Society. He has published more than 100 articles in a variety of scholarly journals. He was appointed by various ministries and agencies to conduct studies on innovation in Malaysia. Currently, he is the Chief Editor of International Journal of Economics and Management.
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TITLES: Visiting Professor & Head of the "Transition from Innovation to Sustainability" programs
UNIVERSITY: CCRS, School of Management Fribourg, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland (HES-SO).
AFFILIATION: Graduate Programs in Sustainability, Bard College (New York).
EXPERTISE: Environmental humanities, climate change research, China and Central Asia, innovation and sustainability, research methodology.
EDUCATION: University of Chicago PhD, and University of California at Berkeley Postdoc.
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I am Associate Director for Scotland for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. We work to solve poverty in Scotland and across the UK. I was formerly Head of the First Minister's Policy and Delivery Unit within the Scottish Government. I am interested in policy changes that significantly reduce poverty and reverse structural inequalities particularly in a devolved or federal government system. I am also interested in work on shifting public attitudes on these issues.
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Kwami Adanu is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) where he teaches courses in Public Finance, Research Methods, and Microeconomics. Kwami earned a Ph.D in Natural Resource and Agricultural Economics in 2009 from Michigan State University, USA and received a master’s degree in economics from the University of Waterloo, Canada in 2001. His research is in Development and Social Economics. He is currently researching behavioral trends and waste management outcomes.
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Michael Frank is a senior fellow in the Wadhwani Center for AI and Advanced Technologies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Frank previously led the Economist Intelligence Unit's Asia technology policy research, where he pioneered applications of machine learning to the firm's traditional strengths in macroeconomic and geopolitical research and analysis. Frank has a master’s degree from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and a bachelor's degree in international relations and economics from Colgate University.