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Leyla Karimli is an Assistant Professor at the Social Welfare Department at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs. Leyla Karimli’s research interests focus on a multidimensional and systems-oriented analysis of poverty and social exclusion in a global context. Situated within Amartya Sen’s capability approach, Professor Karimli’s research is based on the proposition that poverty needs to be treated as a complex phenomenon experienced not only in terms of material deprivation but also as powerlessness, limited human agency, exposure to vulnerability and risk, and social exclusion.
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Naoko Arakawa is a research officer in education in JICA Research Institute. She joined JICA with prior experience with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, UNESCO, UNICEF, and most recently with INEE. She has extensive work experiences in developing policies and implementing projects the field of education in development and humanitarian assistance.
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I am a seasoned environmental infrastructure Project Manager that worked at the Cape Town and Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. I am currently reading for my PhD in Renewable Energy Finance and Policy at Stellenbosch University.
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I'm a Research Associate at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)'s Asia Centre in Bangkok, Thailand. My current work focuses on equitable and inclusive development and disaster risk reduction strategies for vulnerable groups, particularly for people with disabilities. I'm also interested in the role that culture plays in shaping disaster risk interpretation and response.
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I am a researcher under a fixed-term contract at the Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies of the National Research Council of Italy. I am active in the group Social studies on Science, Education, Communication and my main research field is the interaction between science and society. Our research agenda is usually dictated by the European research projects we are involved in. So far, I have been working in the field of science-policy interaction, on communication between scientists and stakeholders in the agrifood sector, and on the representation of migrants in European online newspapers and Italian textbooks. I also keep on collaborating with several magazines, like National Geographic Italia and OggiScienza. Moreover, since February 2015 I have been responsible and writer of the scientific news section for Sapere. I won two awards in Science Journalism for articles and multimedia products published on National Geographic Italia and OggiScienza websites:
-Premio Nazionale di Divulgazione Scientifica 2015, in the category “Articles under 35”;
-Premio Paola De Paoli for young journalists engaged in scientific communication, November 2016.
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Research Director of the National Research Council of Italy. Responsible for the CNR Research Unit “Social Studies of Science, Education, Communication”, involved in several national and international projects in the fields of science and society, engsgement and science education, relationships between research and policy, and sociology of communication. Main Projects Responsibilities include CNR National coordination of the FP7 project REPOPA, of the International Research Project “Implicit values in textbooks - representations of migration” and responsible for the SCE Unit of the FP7 project Scicafe 2.0. Main memberships included membership as National Expert of the “Information Society Forum”, WG2 “Social and democratic values, culture and the future of new services and the media”. Contract professor in several Italian Universities (Rome Sapienza and Lumsa, Naples Partenope, Macerata). Component of the School Commission of the Italian National Academy of Science.
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Albert is currently a Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute where he leads SEI’s Climate Change Cluster and manages SEI’s global initiative on Transforming Development and Disaster Risk.
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I'm the Director of RSA Global at the RSA (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Commerce and Manufactures) - a 260 year old think tank and social change organisation in London. We have run a year-long commission into how to deliver inclusive growth policies in the UK and are working with cities around the world to put our findings into practice. I'm interested in learning from other places about how they are breaking silos and including citizens in social and economic policy-making.
I have a breadth of experience in working with, and for, the private sector, national NGOs and local charities. I began my career working for FTSE 100 company Wolseley Plc in Europe; after four years and much thought, took the decision to focus on work that addresses the systemic causes of inequality in the world. I left Wolseley to launch an enterprise project for leprosy and tuberculosis charity Damien Foundation in Bangladesh, and then built a successful socio-economic impact consultancy within think tank the New Economics Foundation (NEF) in London. I strongly believes that putting people and the planet at the heart of decision-making is the best way to make real social change.
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Young consultant from the Inclusion & Right Section.
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I am an environmental practitioner who works for the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and have a focus on local economic development of disadvantaged communities through providing support in environmental assessments for their potential businesses/ developments. I have an interest in looking to broaden spatial planning in township and rural communities in South Africa to include looking at Ecosystem Services that can assist in building community resilience and economic development. I have worked with a number of monitoring, evaluating and developing sustainability indicators for state of the environment reporting with the South African and Namibian governments.