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Physical education teacher, lecturer at Ohalo College, specializing in innovative pedagogy through technology, doctoral student of educational sciences
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I am, currently working at the Pacific Disability Forum as the Disability Inclusive Development Officer and prior to that I was working as the Information for the Pacific Disability Forum, Campaigns Information and Media Officer at the Consumer Council of Fiji and work as a school teacher in various schools around Fiji under the Ministry of Education. I have worked in these various organisations for a total number of 12 years, gaining technical and thematic experiences working in these different organisations. I have completed a Diploma in Education majoring in Accounting and Economics and have also completed various professional training that has contributed to my professional development over the years of my work. During these years of work, I have worked with governments in the Pacific in either trying to influence its policies to be inclusive or implement its policies to ensure that no one is left behind in development processes. In these years of work, I have worked with the government of Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Australia and New Zealand. This is working with them in their context as a donor, development partner or implementing partners to projects implemented in their countries.
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Disability-inclusive development practitioner, focused mainly on disability-inclusive education and disability data.
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Policy and External Relations Officer, Tony Elumelu Foundation
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Head, Policy and External Relations, Tony Elumelu Foundation.
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Hizkia Respatiadi is a PhD candidate at the University of Otago. Formerly the Head of Research at the Center for Indonesian Policy Studies (CIPS). The focus area of his research is policy issues in Food Trade and Agriculture. He leads the Affordable Food for the Poor project that aims to lower basic food prices in Indonesia by reducing trade barriers between Indonesia and other countries.
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Adetoun Küppers-Adebisi (Dipl.-Wirt.Ing., Author, curator, journalist and lecturer for black German literatures, culture and media, MINT - ambassador and diversity coordinator for civil society and Berlin administration.)
With her doctoral thesis on gender and anti-racism Perspective, she plans post & decolonial paradigm shifts in the categories of waste management, neo-colonialism and nation. She lectured at universities in Fulda and Göttingen, Hamburg Bremen and Berlin.
As president of AFROTAK TV cyberNomads and federal executive of The African Network Germany TANG, she realizes concepts for black and diasporic knowledge productions (educational archive, multimedia lab, online platform). She was the German speaker for the African Union in Paris and for the UN Decade for People of African Descent in Geneva. As a project coordinator, she closes gaps that are not covered in the mainstream (Black Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art and Discourse, DOCUMENTA Africana Germanica, Black Media Congress Berlin, National Action Plan against Racism & Ethnic Discrimination Berlin, DaMigra – Women migrant umbrella organisation).
As a chosen guarantor deputy she initiates cultural-political inclusion, lobbies and cooperation with institutions such as House of World Cultures HKW, Goethe Institute, Federal Agency for Political Education BPB, Heinrich-Boell-, Friedrich-Ebert- and Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation. UNESCO Germany proclaimed in 2004 the co-initiated literature prize as a project to commemorate the slave trade and its abolition (May-Ayim-Award). She was honored by Black Heritage magazine in 2010, 2013 and 2017 as one of the most important Afro-Germans. And the Berlin Senate, the Federal Government and the European Union have repeatedly honored her innovative approaches and interventions into civil society. In 2018 she was selected as a scholarship holder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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IPL Fellow
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I work at the German Development Institute - Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), one of the leading research institutions and think tanks for global development and international development policy worldwide. My work is related to different aspects of evidence in the field of development cooperation: providing evidence, using it, and improving its potential
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Climate and Disaster Reduction Policy and Programme Advisor with UNDP, based in Zambia. I am a sustainable development specialist with over 20 years of work experience in development policy analysis, formulation and management. I support policy and institutional strengthening for equitable, gender-responsive and inclusive development in developing countries.