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Dr Romina Istratii is UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at SOAS University of London. She leads Project dldl, which responds to domestic violence in religious societies and migrant ethnic minority communities employing a decolonial co-production model working with grassroots organisations and institutions in East Africa and Europe. She specialises in ethical international development and research-for-development practices, two-way knowledge sharing and participatory community engagement. She serves in the UK's Civilian Stabilisation Unit as PSVI expert and is co-founder of Decolonial Subversions.
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I am a teaching fellow in Comparative Politics of Development at the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University. I mainly focus in my research on issues related to economic development, political economy, institutions and post-conflict reconstruction.
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I work as a Researcher at Global Canopy but seconded into the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). Global Canopy is a data-driven not for profit tackling the market forces destroying nature by providing tools, data and guidance to help organisations to shift to deforestation free supply chains/portfolios. Global Canopy is one of the founding partners of the TNFD, a disclosure framework that helps organisations identify and act on their evolving nature-related risks. For TNFD I support in the development of sector guidance in the food and beverage sector.
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I am a professor in the Environmental Science and Policy department at George Mason University in the USA. My research interests primarily focus on environmental policy and climate change.
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Kin-kwok LAI is a Registered Social Worker and senior lecturer in higher education sector in Hing Kong. He had been the founding convener of a well-known subdivided unit housing advocacy organization in Hong Kong since 2012 he is still the core member of the organization. He has established a social enterprise which is the first social rental agency in Hong Kong aiming to assist the lower income households for adequate housing and also for policy advocacy through service practice. In addition to housing and community issues, he also engages in fighting for ethnic minorities rights.
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I am presently the US Research Fellow at the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), where I lead the team's domestic extremism research portfolio. I previously served as an Investigator with the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol. I specialize in the multidirectional spread of disinformation and extremist rhetoric through the information ecosystem.
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Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Mauritius. Research interests include welfare economics, public sector economics and policy analysis.
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Dr. Justine N. Bukenya (MBChB, MPH, P.h.D) is a medical doctor and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Community Health and Behavioural Sciences. She has Medical training from Makerere University Medical School and Public Health training from the University of Melbourne, Australia.
She has extensive work experience in clinical medicine, and public health. In terms of health service management, she has rich experience in planning, implementing, supervising, coordinating, monitoring and evaluating of Health Care services/ activities at community, district and national levels.
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Director for research and planning at Ghana’s Youth Employment Agency. Over the past 5 years I have been leading the Agency’s corporate planning and strategy efforts. My role primarily relates to the development of concepts papers, budgeting, sustainable programme development and strategy. I hold a bachelors in political science and a Masters in International Business.
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Full-time academic position (Lecturer) in the department for Education Policy Studies, Faculty of Education, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Started as full-time lecturing staff in March 2020 and received my Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2021 (March). Research foci and interest include Sociology of Inclusive Education, Special and Inclusive Education Policy and Practices, Leadership and Management of Special and Inclusive Education, and Initial Teacher Training. Currently busy with a National Research Foundation funded project on leadership at inclusive schools in the Western Cape.