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Li Yang is a research associate at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and a research fellow at the World Inequality Lab (WIL) at Paris School of Economics. Previously, he was a researcher in the World Bank DEC research group in Washington D.C. from 2013 to 2017, a Marie Curie research fellow at Paris School of Economics from 2018 to 2020, and a Stone research fellow at INSEAD from 2020 to 2021. He was also the coordinator for East and South Asia at the World Inequality Lab from 2018 to 2021. His main research interests pertain to income and wealth inequality, economic history and political economy. His research output has been published in scientific journals such as American Economic Review, China Economic Review and the British Journal of Sociology. He was awarded a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship from European Commission in 2018 and a research grant from the World Bank DEC research group for individual research in 2014.
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Anish Sugathan is Assistant Professor at the Business Policy Area of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and is Research Affiliate at the International Growth Center at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests are in the area of institutional and governance infrastructure of emerging economies that fosters sustainable development of private and public stakeholders.
He holds an undergraduate degree in Engineering from the University of Kerala, and is a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He was the SAP Labs India doctoral scholar at IIM-B, and the Giorgio Ruffolo post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He has previously worked with IBM, BHEL, IIM-Bangalore, Center for Development Studies and Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Business and Government in various capacities. At IIM-A, he teaches courses on corporate sustainability, strategic management, government systems and policy processes, data analysis, and applied econometric methods.
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I am a Curriculum and Content Manager at Nesta, working specifically on two projects: Digital Frontrunners and the Global Innovation Policy Accelerator. The programmes support policymakers in developing testable Digital Skills and Innovation Policy respectively, following a human-centred design process amongst other things. I focus on the learning experience for our participants as well as sharing insights from both programmes.
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I am the Asst. Programme Manager on Nesta's Digital Frontrunner's programme. We’re delivering a collaborative programme to help senior policymakers in Nordic & Benelux countries create a more inclusive digital economy. My background is in enterprise development in east Africa, using Lean Start-up & IDEO UX design methodologies to help young people start and grow businesses to increase incomes and create jobs.
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Programme coordinator for the What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care. This is a new initiative that seeks better outcomes for children, young people and families by bringing the best available evidence to practitioners and other decision makers across the children's social care sector by fostering a culture of evidence-informed practice.