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Dr. Murugesan Selvam is Senior Professor (Retired) in the Department of Commerce and Financial Studies, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India, Publisher cum Chief Editor of SMART Journal of Business Management Studies (a Referred, Indexed, Professional and International Journal). He was the Former Dean, Faculty of Management, Former Chair for School of Business Studies, Former Director i/c, UGC Academic Staff College, Former Member of Syndicate and Senate, Former Coordinator of Centre for Entrepreneurship and Skill Development.
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Mel Ainscow is Emeritus Professor, University of Manchester, Professor of Education, University of Glasgow, and Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology. A long-term consultant to UNESCO, he is internationally recognized as an authority on the promotion of inclusion and equity in education. He has recently completed collaborative research projects with networks of schools in Australia, Chile, Uruguay and five European countries. Examples of his writing can be found in: ‘Struggles for equity in education: the selected works of Mel Ainscow’ (Routledge)
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I received my PhD from the University of Warwick, UK in early 2020 and joined the Economics Department at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore as an Assistant Professor in June 2020. My research interests are in Behavioural and Experimental Economics, especially with regards to how intra and inter-group interactions are influenced by social, psychological and cultural factors. I am particularly interested in how these interact with economic factors to influence outcomes like inequality and efficiency.
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I am a Cognitive Scientist, currently working as an Assistant Professor at Centre of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad.
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a Senior Lecturer of Biostatistics at the University of Ghana (UG) and Research Fellow at the WorldPop, University of Southampton with expertise in the development and application of novel Statistical/Biostatistical and Epidemiological methods underpinned by mathematical modelling for investigating population health outcomes with focus on developing countries leveraging big data. Justice gained HND and BSc in Statistics both from Ghana, MSc Statistics with Applications in Medicine at the University of Southampton and a PhD Statistics & Epidemiology from Lancaster University, both from UK.
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Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Centre for Health Policy, Planning and Management, School of Health Systems Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Qualification: PhD in the area of health economics from IIPS, Mumbai and Postdoc from Department of Economics, Aarhus University, Denmark
Soumitra is trained in both economics and demography and has been working in the broad area of Health for the last 15 years (excluding PhD years).
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Leena Joshi is a social entrepreneur, climate advocate and author. She is the founder and executive director of Climate Conservancy, an international nonprofit, with 9000 volunteers in 60+ countries. She has sat on boards and advisory councils for various organizations. Leena is a prolific public speaker who has spoken at universities across the world including Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge. A TEDx Speaker who has also spoken at high-level global conferences. She has authored books including 'The Climate Awakening' and 'Ethereal' and writes poetry about social impact.
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Jesse Lastunen is a research associate at UNU-WIDER, specialising in tax-benefit microsimulation modelling. His research interests include labour and public economics, with a focus on social policy, taxation and employment. Jesse has previously worked for organizations such as OECD, RAND Corporation, Internet Association, Technopolis Group, and CERN. He received his PhD in policy analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School, with analytical concentrations in economics and quantitative methods. He has master’s degrees in international economics and technology policy.
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Senior Lecturer at School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. I am an academic working at the University of Bristol. My research area is post-communist welfare state and Social Europe
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Professor in Linguistics and Social Interaction, University of Manchester, UK. Researching language development, learning environments, inclusivity