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I am currently an MSc Development Studies student at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Before I pursued my postgraduate degree, I was working as a public policy researcher at a think tank in Malaysia focusing on education and human capital development.
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As a Senior Music Education lecturer at the Faculty of Education, University of Pretoria, I received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Music Education (2013) as well as Best Research Achiever (2021). My research focus is on transformative transdisciplinary Multicultural Musicking experiences in Higher Education. As the postgraduate coordinator of the Music Education department, I supervise multiple postgraduate students and act as an external examiner for other South African universities. Collaborations with national, Pan African and international educational landscapes exist.
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Romana J. Březovská is a Research Fellow of the Prague-based think-tank Association for International Affairs. She focuses on climate change in wider contexts, esp. in relation to climate negotiations, climate security, climate diplomacy, and just resilience including EU climate policies and its impacts on different groups of people. Romana is a holder of two master‘s degrees – one in International Relations from the Charles University in Prague and in International Public Management from Sciences Po Paris. From 2019-2020 and during CZ PRES she worked at the Ministry of the Environment of CZE.
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Nyathon Hoth Mai is a gender and climate change researcher. She is currently a Program Officer and researcher in the Department of Environment and Natural Resources Program at The Sudd Institute and a moderator for the South Sudan Women Intellectual Forum (SSWI). At Sudd Institute, Nyathon has produced several research papers on climate change, environmental degradation in the oil-producing regions, transparency and accountability in the Energy sector, and Gender and human rights violations. She presented these research outputs at conferences, and to the concerned policymakers.
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I'm a research officer at the Climate Change in Southeast Asia Programme at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, a think tank based in Singapore which focuses on Southeast Asian issues ranging from geopolitics, economics, sociology and others. The Programme runs an annual Southeast Asia Climate Outlook Survey which gathers public perceptions on climate issues and policies focusing on Southeast Asia and a Climate Change in Southeast Asia Compendium Series which consolidates and publishes research on interdisciplinary climate issues. Personally I have written on climate finance and methane.
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Dr. Shelby Cosner is Professor and Director for the Center for Urban Education Leadership, College of Education, University of Illinois Chicago, 2018-present; Assistant/Associate Professor 2005-2018. Currently also a Research Affiliate for the Qatar Foundation. Network Member for WISE Agile Leaders, Qatar Foundation, Board Member, Global School Leaders. Expert in ed. leadership for organizational improvement, ed. leadership preparation/development, ed. leader learning designs. PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the University of Wisconsin Madison USA.
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I am a Senior fellow at Brookings. I direct the Schaeffer Initiative on Health Policy.
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Dr. Nana Amma Asante-Poku is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana. She has a PhD in Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK, an MPhil and BA in Economics from the University of Ghana. Her research interests are in International Trade, Agricultural value chains, Gender and Development, Institutional Economics and Education.
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Professor in fisheries science, cross disciplinary environmental risk and decision analysis
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Dr Feng Mao is Associate Professor of Global Sustainable Development at the University of Warwick. His key research interests lie in the intersection of water, ecosystems, society, and technologies, focusing on three main themes: (i) water security and resilience, (ii) hydro-ecosystems under change, and (iii) data technologies and sustainability strategies, such as serious games, citizen science, model sharing, low-cost sensor networks, and visualisation.