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Dr Mukarrum Ahmed is Lecturer in Business Law at the University of Lancaster and a barrister of Lincoln's Inn. He read law at the Universities of London and Aberdeen. Dr Ahmed is a recognised expert and the author of books on private international law and international commercial law. He approaches the law from theoretical, pragmatic and comparative perspectives. Recurrent themes in his work include the post-Brexit development of private international law, party autonomy, methodological pluralism and the global governance function of private international law.
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Kofi Asante is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghana. Kofi Takyi Asante is a development sociologist. His substantive research areas include colonialism and state formation, citizenship, governance, and development. His research over the years has focused on exploring the emergence, transformations, and contemporary character of the Ghanaian state, as well as the implication of these political economy trends on citizenship and civic engagement. https://isser.ug.edu.gh/faculty/Dr.%20Kofi%20Takyi%20Asante
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Lecturer in Manchester Institute of Education, School of Environment, Education & Development of The University of Manchester. His overarching research interest captures the intersection between higher education, Indigenous knowledge systems and the UN sustainable development goals. He has recently been actively involved in researching the indigenisation of climate change education and contributes on the postgraduate programme in Education for a Sustainable Environment.
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PhD Film Researcher working on 'Women Filmmakers and The Remaking of New Nollywood: Gender, Politics, and Governance' at Lancaster University, UK. An Associate Lecturer in the same university since October 2021. Former Theatre and Media Studies Lecturer, University of Calabar, Nigeria from 2016-2021. Areas of interest not limited to transnational cinema, gender studies, postcolonial issues, and Afrocentric colonialism. I have published a stage play, scholarly articles, book chapters and attended conferences. I wrote, directed, and produced my debut feature film TOO SURE TO LOSE in 2022.
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James H. Liu (刘豁夫) is Professor of Psychology at Massey University in New Zealand. His work is in social, cross-cultural, and political psychology, where he has coauthored over 260 publications, and is currently co-Editor-in-Chief of Political Psychology. He specializes in intergroup relations, especially seen through lenses of history, identity, and collective remembering. An advocate of New Confucianism, his long-term vision is to see Global Consciousness grow. He has served the development of the Asian Association of Social Psychology through a philosophy of relational ethics and inter-conn