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Leigh is a clinical psychologist based in Cape Town, South Africa. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Psychology Department at UWC and the coordinator of the Psychology Honours programme. Leigh is also the acting Chairperson for the NPO, Pets as Therapy (South Africa), which is a community-based, voluntary outreach organisation that coordinates animal assisted activities. Research interests include discursive constructions of health and illness, child and adolescent mental health; young masculinities and identity; and human-animal interaction, specifically, animal-assisted interventions.
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My name is Antara Jha and recently, I completed my master's degree (LLM) in cyber law from National Forensic Sciences University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat which is fully controlled by Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India and currently, I am working as Senior Executive Legal at C-DAC. So, far I have represented India on various international platforms including 76th UNGA , UNOCT, BRICS Youth Summit, COP-26.
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Amit Kumar, is a Computer Science Educator with NVS & Mentor, Prerana Program, Ministry of Education, Govt. of India. He is a Resource Person for Spoken Tutorial-IIT Bombay, Key Resource Person for CIET-NCERT and a Mentor for National Mission for Mentoring of NCTE, MoE, Govt of India. He has authored 3 Books and 75+ publications in national/international conference proceedings journals. He is a recipient of National ICT Award 2015 & National Awards to Teachers 2022 from Hon'ble President of India and Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Program for International Teachers 2020-21, USA.
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I retired as an education planner in 2016. However, I am still involved in the field of higher education policy as a consultant. I mainly work for the Council on Higher Education, a statutory body in South Africa. I am also a research associate in the research unit at the University of Cape Town.
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Assistant Professor and Swiss National Science Foundation Promoting Women in Academia Fellow. Founded and leads the Applied Face Cognition Lab at the University of Lausanne. Research focus in Cognitive Neuroscience and its translation into application and policy. Local node leader of the Swiss Reproducibility Network; Member of the European Association for Biometrics; Member of the Europol Platform for Experts & Europol Data Protection Experts Network; Expert Panel Member for Innosuisse; Juror for the German National AI Competition; Scientific Advisor for the Berlin Police.
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Tanvir Singh is Project Manager at IIT Bombay for Spoken Tutorial Program fostering IT Literacy through Open Source Technology under National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT), Ministry of Education, Government of India.
He has published 60+ review/research papers in International Journals. He is a Founder President of Green ThinkerZ advocating United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) 2030 – The Global Goals. He is Certified National Geographic Certified Educator.
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Dr. Siobhan Byrne is the inaugural Director of the Institute for Intersectionality Studies / L'institut d'études sur l'intersectionnalité and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta, Canada. Dr. Byrne’s research and teaching are in the areas of feminist anti-war activism and peacebuilding in societies transitioning from conflict, with a special focus on Northern Ireland and Palestine/Israel. Dr. Byrne earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from Queen’s University and held a postdoctoral fellowship at University College Dublin, Ireland.