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I am a professional with more than 15 years of working in the intersection of continuing and lifelong education, government, business and international development sectors. I am also professionally trained in capability building, executive education (open and customised), higher education management, research and consultancy, and lifelong education programmes. I am currently a PhD Education student at the University of Strathclyde (Scotland) with professional appointments at the University of Glasgow (Scotland).
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Dr. Panagiotis Barkas is a Policy Officer / Economist for European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). He is an academic economist and policy analyst, whose work and research focuses on the design and implementation of economic policy and reforms, at both national and international level.
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Dr Rahman is an M&E expert that brings a range of experiences in research, evaluations and training in the South Asian region. With over 18 years of global experience, Dr Rahman has either conducted or managed over 100 baseline and 30 final evaluations on a range of themes including Livelihood, DRR & CC, Emergency Response, Extreme Poverty, Women Empowerment, Social Inclusion, gender inclusive development, capacity building within NGOs. Dr Rahman gained a PhD in Sociology in 2018, and besides M&E and Gender based research, has written and supported projects on livelihood.
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Currently working as a Project Officer for Climate Smart Agriculture unit at FANRPAN. Msc. Agricultural Economics. 7 years of experience in leadership training, project management, agricultural development, conflict management, research and report writing.
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Samir Saran is President, ORF; Curator, Raisina Dialogue, India's premier conference on geopolitics and geoeconomics and Founder, CyFy, India’s annual conference on cybersecurity and internet governance. He is Member, India-CEO Climate Action Group and Global Risks Advisory Board at WEF. He has served as Commissioner, Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace and is a member of the Board of Directors at ORF America.
Samir's research focuses on global governance, technology and media, climate and energy policy. Author of four books and has edited multiple monographs & publications.
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I currently work as a PhD student at the MCC Institute in Berlin. My research is centred on climate change mitigation, with a specific focus on Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) technologies. I am particularly interested in evidence-based policymaking to inform sustainable and just global energy transitions under socio-technical and climate uncertainty.
I hold an MSc in Sustainable Energy Futures and a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London. My studies have provided me with a multidisciplinary set of skills and perspectives to tackle today and future societal challenges.
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Dr. HU Tao is now the Director of Lakestone Institute for Sustainable Development (LISD), President of Lakestone Academy of Marine S&T, Shenzhen and services as Chairman of Board of Professional Association for China’s Environment (PACE). He is one of the founding members of "China Carbon Neutrality Forum of 50 members" and Member of UN PRME China Academic Committee.
From January 2014- January 2019 he acted as the Managing Director of China Program, WWF-US, Washington DC. During 2012-2014, he was the Senior Fellow of World Resources Institute (WRI), Washington DC.
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I hold a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Granada (UGR). I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering at the Hashemite University in Zarqa, Jordan since 2020, I joined the Hashemite University in 2013. My research interests include transportation planning and management, traffic operation and management, traffic safety, and intelligent systems applications in transportation engineering. I worked on several local and international transportation projects while working in Land transport Regulatory Commision or as a consultant lately.
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Chercheur et enseignant de Droit; j'assure la présidence du Comité scientifique d'un Think-Tank indépendant (AIA) qui aborde des thématiques tranversales: Foncier, Liberté économique, l'Etat défaillant, etc. Mon sujet de prédilection est "la théorie et la pratique de l'état en Afrique", des points de vue juridique et sociologique. Mes recherches sont axées sur la Sécurité en Afrique et la culture juridique africaine. Mes expériences d'enseignement (Droit humanitaire, Droits Humains, Droit de l'Environnement) me portent à m'intéresser au domaine de l'Education universitaire.
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Professor and chair of biomedical engineering department Hashemite University Jordan. Twenty years of academic experience in the domains of electrical/biomedical engineering and ergonomics have been gained in the UK, Jordan, & Russia. Medical electronics, signal and image processing, virtual reality, and haptic devices are among his research interests. Al-Naami has served as an associate editor for globally indexed journals. In 2000, he got his PhD from St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University, and from 2001 to 2003, he was a visiting researcher at Sussex University in the UK.