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Dr. Jennifer A. Delaney is an Associate Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also the Director of the Forum on the Future of Public Education at the University of Illinois. Dr. Delaney’s research focuses on higher education policy, with an emphasis on finance. She has published extensively in the areas of student financial aid, state budgeting for higher education, and on related topics of higher education policy. She worked for the US Department of Education and the US Congress on issues of student financial aid with the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance from 2000-2002. From 2003-2005, she was a policy analyst with the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, where she contributed to the Measuring Up reports, state-by-state report cards on higher education performance. She also served as a consultant for the Commission on the Future of Higher Education (under US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings) in 2005-2006. Dr. Delaney served as chair of the Council for Public Policy in Higher Education from 2011-2014 with the Association for the Study of Higher Education. In 2014, she was the Faculty Fellow for the Illinois Board of Higher Education. Previously she was an assistant professor of higher education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Dr. Delaney earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from Stanford University, an Ed.M. in Higher Education from Harvard University, and a B.A. in English from the University of Michigan.
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PhD researchers and policy advisor at University of Cambridge. Looking at online social interactions and future use of virtual assistants.
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I am a professor of political science. Me research focuses on citizen participation, civil society and democracy, focusing on Latin America and, more recently, sub-Saharan Africa. My current research focuses specifically on the rights of Indigenous peoples and challenges of reconciliation reconciliation from a comparative perspective,
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I am a PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam. I have long-term working experience in inclusive development, policy formulation, gender and child rights.
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PhD Candidate, Development Studies
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I am an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. My academic work focuses mainly on the intersections of race, crime and criminal justice. I am studying developments in drug policy.
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Timothy Hodges is Professor of Practice in Strategic Approaches to Global Affairs at McGill University's Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID) where, in his work focuses on the application of strategic foresight methodologies in global affairs, the negotiation and implementation of international sustainable development treaties by Indigenous Peoples, governments and stakeholders.
Concurrently, he is Principal Consultant at Timothy J Hodges & Associates, providing leadership training and confidential strategic advisory services to governments, industry, private non-profit organizations, and indigenous and local communities in support of legally-binding treaty and commercial agreement negotiations, foresight analysis and anticipatory planning for organizational resilience.
Timothy Hodges is a former career Canadian diplomat, with a focus on environmental, economic, and trade policy issues including, for example, in the UN General Assembly, G8, WTO, APEC, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, UN Food and Agricultural Organization, UNESCO, OECD, Organization of American States, NAFTA, and the Arctic Council.
He served as Co-Chair, intergovernmental negotiating committee for the United Nations treaty on Access and Benefit-sharing of Genetic Resources (Nagoya Protocol), 2006-2010.
Timothy Hodges is past President of the Canadian Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers (PAFSO).
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Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for the Study of International Development at McGill University. My research expertise covers many aspects of applied microeconomic analysis in economic development. Specifically, my current and recent work has focused on two broad research areas: decision-making under uncertainty (namely concerning technology adoption among subsistence farmers) and the micro-economic effects of social policies and conditions (in the area of education, health and labour markets), with a focus on women. I have conducted research in Peru, Kenya and in the Caribbean, using laboratory experiments, surveys or randomized controlled trials.
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Shreyashi Dasgupta is the Jawaharlal Nehru Cambridge PhD scholar at the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge. She also supervises undergraduates in the Department of Geography at Cambridge. Her current work concerns the transitory spaces in urban housing and examines the emerging forms and processes of temporary accommodation for low-income workers in Dhaka (Bangladesh) and Mumbai (India). She has co-founded the Cambridge Urbanism in the Global South interdisciplinary working group. Prior to her PhD, Shreyashi has worked on a wide range of developmental issues for the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat, Observer Research Foundation, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and Research (PUKAR), BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) that centred on water and sanitation, housing, land-use, spatial planning and urban governance in India and Bangladesh.
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Arijit Nandi is an Associate Professor jointly appointed at the McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy and the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health. An epidemiologist by training, Arijit is broadly interested in the impact of public policies on population health and health inequalities. He Nandi holds a Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Global Health.