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Dr. Adwoa Yeboah Gyapong

External Researcher, International Institute of Social Studies- ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Dr. Andrew Fischer

Associate Professor of Social Policy and Development Studies, International Institute of Social Studies- ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Scientific Director of CERES- The Dutch Research School for International Development, The Netherlands

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Ms. Anna Minj

Director Community Empowerment Programme and Integrated Development Programme, BRAC, Bangladesh

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Prof. Dr. Beata Kowalska

Feminist Sociologist, Professor, Institute of Sociology, of the Jagiellonian University, Poland

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Ms. Biplabi Shrestha

Programme Director at the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women - ARROW, Asia

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Dr. Boaventura Monjane

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, PLAAS, UWC, South Africa

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Dr. C. Sathyamala

Post-Doctoral Academic Researcher, International Institute of Social Studies- ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Mr. Conrad Zellmann

Impact Lead, Civic Rights in a Digital Age, Hivos, The Netherlands

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Dr. Emmanuel Opong

Regional Director Wash & Capacity Building, SAR - World Vision Southern Africa Region

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Dr. Esther Miedema

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science, Athena Institute; Assistant Professor, APH - Global Health, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Prof. Dr. Inge Hutter

Rector, International Institute of Social Studies- ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Prof. Dr. Irene van Staveren

Professor of Pluralist Development Economics, International Institute of Social Studies- ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Prof. Emer. Jan Pronk

Professor Emeritus, International Institute of Social Studies- ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is the former Minister of Development Cooperation, serving two terms, and later Minister of Environment in The Netherlands. He has also served as an international civil servant in various capacities in the UN including Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Sudan leading the UN peacekeeping operation (UNMIS); and former President of the Society for International Development (SID). Currently Jan holds a Chair in the Theory and Practice of International Development at ISS, and is a lecturer at various universities

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Phra John Paramai Dhanissaro

Monk LP John is a pianist, a photographer, and a computer programmer, has become a Theravada Buddhist Monk for 13 years after finished his PhD in Telematics. With the knowledge from his tech background, he has pioneered in developing the biggest free online self-development and meditation platform that has users from over 235 countries and territories

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Dr. Kristen Cheney

Associate Professor, International Institute of Social Studies- ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Prof. Kyoko Kusakabe

Professor, Head of Dept. Development & Sustainability, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

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Dr. Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay

Gender & Development Specialist; Senior Advisor, Sustainable Economic Development & Gender, Royal Tropical Institute- KIT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Dr. Mihir Kanade

Director of the Human Rights Centre, Academic Director and Head of the Dept. of International Law, Upeace, Costa Rica; and Adjunct Faculty at Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio (Spain), Long Island University (LIU Global Centre in Costa Rica), and Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia)

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Dr. Nanneke Winters

Assistant Professor, International Institute of Social Studies- ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Dr. Natascha Wagner

Associate Professor of Development Economics, International Institute of Social Studies- ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Prof. Dr. Peter A. G. van Bergeijk

Full Professor at The International Institute of Social Studies- ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Ms. Pranita Achyut

Director of Research and Programmes, International Center for Research on Women- ICRW, Asia

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Dr. Renzo Taddei

Faculty, Anthropology and Science and Technology, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

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Dr. Rodrigo Mena

Assistant Professor, International Institue of Social Studies- ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Dr. Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits

Assistant Professor of Conflict and Peace Studies, International Institute of Social Studies- ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Dr. Sohela Nazneen

Feminist Political Economist, Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK

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Prof. Victoria C. Fontan

Vice President of Academic Affairs, Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, American University, Afghanistan

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Dr. Virginia Cawagas

Adjunct Faculty in Peace and Development Education, Educational Policy Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, Canada

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Dr. Zeynep Kasli

Assistant Professor of Migration and Development, International Institute of Social Studies- ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Dr. Adwoa Yeboah Gyapong

Adwoa Yeboah Gyapong is an External Researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. She has a PhD in Development Studies. Her area of interest is in the political economy /ecology of development, particularly contestations around land, labour and food. She is also a social policy analyst and a consultant with experience in monitoring and evaluation of development interventions. She has conducted research and consultancy in several African countries including, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Ghana, Zimbabwe and South Africa. She has several academic publications on land grabs and resource politics, decentralization and development policy which be accessed on google scholar and research gate.

Visit: https://www.eur.nl/en/people/adwoa-yeboah-gyapong

 

Dr. Andrew Fischer

Andrew M. Fischer is an Associate Professor of Development Studies at the ISS and the Scientific Director of CERES, The Dutch Research School for International Development. He is also editor for the journal Development and Change and founding co-editor of the Oxford University Press book series Critical Frontiers of International Development Studies. His latest book, Poverty as Ideology (Zed, 2018), was awarded the International Studies in Poverty Prize by the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) and Zed Books and is fully open access. He is a development economist, demographer and social policy specialist, with a PhD from the London School of Economics (LSE) and over 30 years of experience in development. He has worked extensively on Chinese regional development policies in the minority areas of western China for over 20 years. His current research examines the external financing of social policy in developing countries.

Visit: https://www.eur.nl/en/people/andrew-fischer; https://ceresresearchschool.nl/people-network-and-contact/ceres-director-andrew-fischer/

 

Ms. Anna Minj

Ms. Anna Minj is one of the Programme Directors at BRAC and currently leads two of its multisectoral core programmes named Community Empowerment Programme and Integrated Development Programme. Her role is to provide strategic leadership in planning and managing the programmes and its different projects for ensuring successful achievement of the expected outcomes with quality towards contributing to the organization’s overall goal. 

She has over 27 years of extensive professional experience in leading multi-sectoral programme planning and management in the development sector particularly in women’s empowerment, poverty reduction, livelihood security, integrated holistic development, ultra-poor graduation, gender mainstreaming and Indigenous people’s rights. Have proven track records in leading program/project development, formulation of policies/strategies, and operationalization of them successfully with results and impact. She is also specialized in gender programming and gender mainstreaming both at organization and programmatic levels. 
She has a Master’s degree (MSc) in Zoology and a Post-Graduate diploma in Project Planning and Management from IDPM, Manchester University, UK. In her career, she worked in different senior-level positions both at national and international organizations including CARITAS and CARE Bangladesh and currently at BRAC the largest development organization.
Affiliated with a number of national and international level forums and networks in the field of development, gender equality, women’s rights, and indigenous people’s rights. Currently Chairperson of Bangladesh Community Radio Association, the Vice-Chair of National Coalition of Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh & SIL International Bangladesh and member of Indigenous People’s forum. Served as the Convener for Girls NOT Brides, Bangladesh Chapter, and Engaging Men & Boys Alliance, Bangladesh and served as the executive board member of Stromme Foundation-Norway for 5/6 years. She is also the founder member of ‘WE CAN’, Bangladesh.

Visit:  http://www.brac.net/executive-body

 

Prof. Dr. Beata Kowalska

Beata Kowalska – is a feminist sociologist, a Professor at the Institute of Sociology, of the Jagiellonian University. In recent years her research has focused on gender dimensions of the citizenship and women’s mobilizations. It has permitted her to combine her academic fascinations with experience working on programmes and initiatives for gender equality in Poland and abroad. She is engaged in Scholars at risk Network that protects scholars suffering grave threats to their lives, liberty, and well-being by arranging temporary research and teaching positions at institutions in our network.  as well as convenes faculty, students, and higher education community members to discuss global and regional academic freedom climates and to develop solutions that strengthen the university space.

Visit: https://socjologia.uj.edu.pl/en_US/instytut/pracownicy/beatakowalska

 

Ms. Biplabi Shrestha

Biplabi Shrestha is a Programme Director at the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW). ARROW, a global South Feminist organization based in Malaysia, works towards an equal, just, and equitable world that enables women and young people to realize their full sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR). Biplabi’s long involvement in gender equality and women’s health are inspired and informed by the lived realities of women and girls in Asia. As a programme manager at ARROW (2017-2019), Biplabi managed ARROW’s multi-country programme that builds constituencies with new alliances to develop knowledge and ownership of gender, feminism, and SRHR issues by strengthening the linkages between issues that pose challenges to the SRHR agenda, such as but not limited to, climate change, conflict and crisis situations, disability, migration, food insecurity, religious fundamentalism and conservatisms. Prior to ARROW, her work in Nepal focused on capacity strengthening of women and young people at the local and national level on HIV and AIDS. Biplabi holds a degree in Gender and Peace Building from the University for Peace in Costa Rica with a full scholarship from Asian-Peacebuilders Scholarship (APS) Programme. 

Visit: https://www.arrow.org.my/people/biplabi-shrestha-bipu/

 

Dr. Boaventura Monjane

Boaventura Monjane is a scholar-activist from Mozambique. He holds a PhD on Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship, from the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra. He is based at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS, UWC) as a postdoctoral researcher and is also a fellow of the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. His areas of interest include: agrarian social movements, rural politics, food sovereignty and climate justice.

Visit: https://qesclimatejustice.info.yorku.ca/about/scholars/boaventura-monjane/

 

Dr. C. Sathyamala

C. Sathyamala is a public health physician and epidemiologist with a PhD in Development Studies. She is currently a postdoc academic researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies, Den Haag, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her areas of interest include food security and politics of food, political economy of health, medical ethics, reproductive rights, and environmental justice. She has been active in both the health and women’s movement in India for some decades. She has authored and co-authored books and published in journals, peer-reviewed and otherwise, and in newspapers on wide-ranging topics.

Visit: https://www.eur.nl/en/people/christina-sathyamala 




 

Mr. Conrad Zellmann

Conrad joined Hivos in September 2018 to lead program development on transparency and accountability. Since February 2021, he leads Hivos’ work on civic rights in a digital age. Before that, Conrad worked with Development Initiatives (UK/Kenya) on increasing access and use of data & information for poverty reduction. Prior to that, he was Deputy Director of Towards Transparency (TT) in Hanoi, Vietnam, where he led programs on business integrity and youth engagement. Conrad remains involved with TT as a member of its board. From 2005-2011, Conrad worked at Transparency International, most recently providing technical support for TI chapters’ work to support victims and whistleblowers – with a focus on Latin America, Central & Eastern Europe and Asia Pacific.

Conrad studied History at the University of Potsdam, Germany and Deusto University in Bilbao, Spain, and holds an MSc in international non-profit management and social investment from City University London.

Visit: https://hivos.org/opinion/an-open-renewal-for-civic-rights-inclusion-and-climate-justice/; LinkedIn; Twitter

 

Dr. Emmanuel Opong

Dr. Emmanuel Opong is currently the Regional Director for WASH & Capacity Building for World Vision in Southern Africa. He provides leadership and management responsibility for WASH programmes in nine countries, and is also responsible for the global capacity building of WASH staff with the Desert Research Institute (DRI) and Drexel University.

Dr. Opong holds a Ph.D. and two Masters Degrees in Psychology and International Development, as well as Post-Graduate Diplomas in WASH and Public Health. He has over 35 years of leadership, management and field experience in international development in over 30 African countries, the US, Europe and Asia.

Throughout his career, Dr. Opong has led research work and co-authored papers on various WASH projects with faculty and students from academic institutions in Africa and the US. In 2020, he published his first book Fate and Destiny: The True Story of a Christian Development Worker sharing why he is passionate about the issues of WASH, grounded in the belief that no child should die because of unsafe water, poor sanitation and hygiene.

Visit: https://www.wvi.org/clean-water/dr-emmanuel-opong-regional-director-wash-and-capacity-building-southern-africa

 

Dr. Esther Miedema

In both teaching and research, Esther focuses on the politics of knowledge production and deployment, with an emphasis on the fields of health and education. Her interests relate to the interactions between a) narratives about notions of international development, gender equality and social justice, and b) the actors that engage with these issues. Additionally, Esther’s research is geared to better understanding the ways in which women and men contest and subvert gendered, classed and racialised norms and violence, and inequalities more broadly. Esther recently completed a 5-year mixed methods study on sexual and reproductive health and rights in 10 countries in Sub-Saharan African and South Asia. She managed the research project with a co-principal investigator, coordinating the work done by the core UvA research team, 10 country research teams and 31 project implementation partners in these same countries. Within the framework of this study, she co-edited a Special Issue on the topic of early marriage, published in Progress in Development Studies in December, 2020. Esther is a committed teacher, who enjoys working with BA and MA students and PhD candidates as they explore their particular interests. In so doing, Esther pays particular attention to supporting students as they engage with questions regarding research ethics and positionality.

Visit: https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/esther-miedema

 

Prof. Dr. Inge Hutter

Inge Hutter is Rector of the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, of Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Professor of Participatory and Qualitative Research in Population and Development, since August 2015. Before joining ISS in The Hague, she was Professor of Demography (since 2004), Vice Dean Research (2005-08) and Dean (2011-15) at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen. She received an ASPASIA for Associate Professorship in 2000, a KNAW post-doc research position in 1996 and a PhD cum laude in 1994.

She conducted research on population and health (reproductive and sexual health, nutrition, ageing) and development in India, Cameroun and Malawi. She is highly experienced in conducting fieldwork in the Global South. She has supervised PhD research in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Ghana, Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda, and the Northern Netherlands. She adopts a participatory approach to research, i.e. involving societal stakeholders from the very beginning of a research project, thus ensuring that research not only leads to scientific publications but also to policies and actions and is relevant for society. She is an expert in qualitative research; together with Monique Hennink (Emory University, Atlanta) and Ajay Bailey (University of Groningen) she wrote the book Qualitative Research Methods with Sage (2011) which is widely used within several academic disciplines all over the world. A second edition is in process.

Visit: https://www.eur.nl/en/people/inge-hutter

 

Prof. Dr. Irene Van Staveren

Irene van Staveren is Professor of pluralist development economics at ISS. She recently published a book with ideas for a postcapitalist economics: Ideas from ten (almost) forgotten economists (PalgraveMacmillan, 2021). She is also the author of a pluralist textbook which has been transformed into a freely available mooc with over 40,000 learners worldwide (Economics after the crisis, Routledge, 2015). Irene is member of the Dutch thinktank Sustainable Finance Lab with a study about the moral compass of bankers, and board member of the Dutch student movement Rethinking Economics NL.

She publishes on feminist economics, social economics, institutional economics and ethics and economics.

Visit: https://www.eur.nl/en/people/irene-van-staveren

 

Prof. Emer. Jan Pronk

Jan Pronk is a Professor Emeritus at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, part of Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is the former Minister of Development Cooperation, serving two terms, and later Minister of Environment in The Netherlands. He has also served as an international civil servant in various capacities in the United Nations including Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference of Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Sudan leading the UN peacekeeping operation (UNMIS). Jan served as the President of the Society for International Development (SID); Chairman of the Inter-church Peace Council in The Netherlands, and currently holds a Chair in the Theory and Practice of International Development at ISS, The Hague. In addition to being Professor Emeritus, ​and having an Honourary Doctorate from ISS in 2002, he had been a visiting Professor at the United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica for more than a decade until recently. Since his retirement he is involved in giving lectures at various universities.

Visit: www.janpronk.nl




 

Phra John Paramai Dhanissaro

LP John a.k.a Monk John, who once a pianist, a photographer, and a computer programmer, has become a Theravada Buddhist Monk for 13 years after finished his PhD in Telematics. With the knowledge from his tech background, he has pioneered in developing the biggest free online self-development and meditation platform that has users from over 235 countries and territories. He travels the world and gives his insights on mindfulness, meditation and Buddhist philosophy for detoxing, balancing and enriching life of the modern world to individuals, NGOs, government agencies, universities, and companies (such as Google, Orange, Ogilvy, Teamwork, etc.) in 70 countries.

 

Dr. Kristen Cheney

Kristen Cheney is Associate Professor of Children and Youth Studies at ISS. Dr. Cheney has participated in research, consultancy, and capacity-building projects in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East on issues from children’s rights to youth SRHR. Her research deals with children’s survival strategies amidst difficult circumstances and the politics of humanitarian intervention for such children, primarily in Africa. Her most recent research examines the impact of the global ‘orphan industrial complex’—including orphan tourism, childcare institutions, and intercountry adoption—on child protection in developing countries. Her work takes an explicitly child-centered approach that considers how children experience and respond to the various hegemonic institutional and structural elements of global and local development practices. She has also led several studies using youth participatory research to explore issues of young people’s SRHR, including as PI for the Adolescents’ Perceptions of Healthy Relationships project (2017-2021).

Visit: https://www.eur.nl/en/people/kristen-cheney 

 

Prof. Kyoko Kusakabe

Kyoko Kusakabe is a Professor of Gender and Development Studies at Department of Development and Sustainability, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand. She has been researching and teaching gender and development in Asia especially focusing on the Mekong Subregion. Her research focus is on gender issues in labor/ work, especially on labor migration, garment factory workers, informal employment, and agriculture and fisheries. She is currently an executive committee member of Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries Section of Asian Fisheries Society. She is also a co-editor-in-chief of Gender, Technology and Development journal (Taylor and Francis). She is a co-author of Thailand’s Hidden Workforce: Burmese Migrant Women Factory Workers (Zed Books, 2012, co-authored with Ruth Pearson) and co-edited Fisherfolk in Cambodia, India and Sri Lanka: Migration, gender and well-being, (Routledge, 2020).

Visit: https://dds.ait.ac.th/dvteam/professor-kyoko-kusakabe/




 

Dr. Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay

Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay (PhD) has worked for the last three decades internationally on gender and development. She is among the first generation of gender trainers and advocates and has specialised on citizenship and governance including a critique of gender mainstreaming as technology of governance. Based at KIT (Royal Tropical Institute) Amsterdam from 1996 – 2017 she led a team specialising on gender and development, undertaken research, advisory work, and directed gender short courses. She has authored several publications based on gender and co-published with southern partners. Her edited work Feminist Subversion and Complicity: Governmentalities and Gender Knowledge in South Asia interrogates feminist politics of involvement in governmental programmes. The book finds that even as feminist politics gets assimilated into governmental agendas it nevertheless also subverts these mainstream agendas. Maitrayee was Visiting Professor at the Graduate Studies Institute in Geneva in 2015, and was a research associate till 2017. She is at present an associate at KIT.

Visit: https://www.kit.nl/staff/maitrayee-mukhopadhyay/

 

Dr. Mihir Kanade

Dr. Mihir Kanade (India) is Director of the Human Rights Centre of the University for Peace (established by the UN General Assembly) since 2009. He is the Academic Director of UPEACE (2017-present) and the Head of its Department of International Law (2014-present).

He is also an adjunct faculty at Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio (Spain), Long Island University (LIU Global Centre in Costa Rica), and Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia). Dr. Kanade serves as the academic co-coordinator of the LLM programme in Transnational Crime and Justice offered at the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, Turin, Italy. Dr. Kanade currently serves as an independent expert of the United Nations Human Rights Council on the Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development. He also chairs the drafting group of international experts appointed by the OHCHR for preparing a legally binding instrument on the right to development. His principal area of academic research and study is the interface between globalization, governance, public international law and human rights, covering several themes including trade, business and investment, sustainable development, forced displacement of people, indigenous peoples’ rights, public health, amongst others. He has served on the International Advisory Board of the International Bar Association on the topic of Business and Human Rights. Prior to academia, Dr. Kanade practiced for several years as a lawyer at the Bombay High Court (Nagpur and Bombay benches) and at the Supreme Court of India. He holds a LL.B from Nagpur University (India) and a Master degree and Doctorate from UPEACE.

Visit: https://www.upeace.org/pages/dr-mihir-kanade

 

Dr. Nanneke Winters

Nanneke Winters is Assistant Professor in Migration and Development at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, part of Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Her research interests include im/mobility, migrant trajectories and translocal livelihoods in Central America and beyond. Her research collaborations have been funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) and the German Research Fund (DFG), and her work has been published in a variety of journals including International Migration Review and Population, Space and Place. Before joining ISS, Nanneke completed her PhD in Development Studies at the University of Antwerp and held research positions in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University, and in the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. In Mainz she co-developed the DFG-funded research project ‘African trajectories across Central America: displacements, transitory emplacements, and ambivalent migration nodes’.

Visit: https://www.eur.nl/en/people/nanneke-winters

 

Dr. Natascha Wagner

Natascha Wagner is Associate Professor of Development Economics at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands). Her research interests lie in international economics/ development, ICT for development and health. She has participated in numerous impact evaluation projects in Africa and Asia ranging from good governance to public health and rural infrastructure programs and applying experimental as well as quasi-experimental impact evaluation techniques. She has been the lead principal investigator of a large scale randomized controlled trial on the impact of information and communication technology in promoting retention and adherence to antiretroviral treatment in Burkina Faso. The project has been financed by the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation – 3ie. 

While the project did not identify any impacts on retention and adherence, it determined important bottlenecks to mobile health interventions such as lack of overall and ICT literacy. Moreover, the project provides evidence that recipients of the SMS messages felt appreciated and supported resulting in enhanced emotional wellbeing.

A recurring theme in Natascha’sresearch is gender and female empowerment, be it in her assessment of bride price payments, polygyny, female genital cutting, gender bias in teaching evaluations or by police officers. Natascha has published articles in, among others, Health Economics, Economics of Education Review, Journal of Development Studies and World Development.

Visit: https://www.natascha-wagner.com ; https://www.eur.nl/en/people/natascha-wagner

 

Prof. Dr. Peter A. G. van Bergeijk

Peter A.G. van Bergeijk (1959) has a PhD in international economics from Groningen University. The dissertation was defended in 1990, deals with trade and diplomacy and has been published in 1994 as Economic Diplomacy, Trade and Commercial Policy: Positive and Negative Sanctions in a New World Order. Peter has been and is a professor at Erasmus School of Economics, Zurich University and since 2009 at the International Institute of Social Studies alternating academia with jobs in banking (ABN, UBS, DNB = Dutch Central Bank) and policy making as chief economist at the ministry of Economic Affairs and the Dutch competition authority. Peter is (co)author/editor of 30 books and 250+ articles. His latest books are Deglobalization 2.0 Trade and openness during the Great Depression and the Great Recession (2019), the recent Pandemic Economics (2021) and the forthcoming Research Handbook on Economic Sanctions (December 2021).

Visit: www.petervanbergeijk.org ; https://www.eur.nl/people/peter-van-bergeijk

 

Ms. Pranita Achyut

Pranita Achyut joined ICRW as the Director of Research and Programs in ICRW Asia. Pranita brings 20 years of experience in applied research and program monitoring, particularly in gender, gender-based violence, adolescent health and family planning. During her previous tenure at ICRW, Pranita led some of  the organization’s flagship programs, including Gender Equity Movement in Schools (GEMS) and Promoting Adolescent Engagement Knowledge & Health (PAnKH). She worked across teams to develop knowledge products as well as organize disseminations for key audiences – stakeholders, policymakers and government agencies. In her new leadership role at ICRW Asia, Pranita is responsible for oversight of the four teams that represent ICRW Asia’s research agenda: Health; Violence, Rights and Inclusion; Gender, Youth and Development; and Gender, Economic Empowerment and Livelihoods. Pranita holds a Master’s Degree in Population Studies from the International Institute of Population Sciences in Mumbai, as well as a Master’s Degree in Statistics from Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India.

Visit: https://www.icrw.org/staff-members/pranita-achyut/




 

Dr. Renzo Taddei

Renzo Taddei teaches anthropology and science and technology studies at the Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. His research focuses on the socio-cultural dimensions of how humans relate to the atmosphere. He has written on climate forecasting, disasters, geoengineering, and how the atmosphere features in Brazilian indigenous modes of existence. Dr. Taddei is a research associate at the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University, a member of the Climate Change National Science and Technology Institute (INCT) in Brazil, and is a standing committee member at the World Meteorological Organization. He earned his doctoral degree in anthropology from Columbia University. He was a visiting scholar at Yale University, Duke University, and the University of the Republic in Uruguay.

Visit: http://cred.columbia.edu/about-cred/people/principal-investigators/renzo-taddei/  

 

Dr. Rodrigo Mena

Rodrigo Mena is Assistant Professor of Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Governance at the Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research focuses on humanitarian aid responses and risk reduction to disasters, and their interaction and nexus with other crises, such as social conflict, climate change, and migration. Dr Mena also serves as a Board Member of the International Humanitarian Studies Association (IHSA) and as convener of the Peace and Ecology commission at the International Peace Research Association (IPRA). Before his current positions, he has worked as a consultant, researcher and project manager with local and international NGOs, the UN, and ministries, particularly in disasters and conflict- affected places such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Chile, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, or Yemen. Recently he has been part of a research project on local response to COVID-19 in 7 countries, and it is at the moment co-coordinating the research programme “Humanitarian governance: accountability, advocacy, alternatives” financed by the European Research Council.

 

Dr. Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits

Dr.Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits, Assistant Professor in Conflict and Peace Studies at The International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University, Rotterdam , The Netherlands. Her research interests are in the intersections of Violent Conflicts and Development and on topics under the broader themes of external interventions in conflict and peacebuilding, state building, post-war transitions, security sector reform and EU security and defence policy.

Visit: https://www.eur.nl/en/people/dr-shyamika-smits-jayasundara




 

Dr. Sohela Nazneen

Sohela Nazneen is a feminist political economist based at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). Sohela’s research focuses on gender and politics, feminist movement, women’s empowerment in South Asia and sub Saharan Africa and has published on these-including in World Development; Contemporary South Asia, Women’s Studies International Forum.Her recent publication is: Negotiating Gender Equity in the Global South (Routledge). Sohela convenes IDS’ flagship MA programme on Gender and Development.

Visit: https://www.ids.ac.uk/people/sohela-nazneen/




 

Prof. Victoria C. Fontan

Victoria Fontan is a Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Vice President of Academic Affairs at the American University of Afghanistan. She is also a visiting professor at the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESO), Guadalajara, Mexico; at the Institut Supérieur des Techniques de Développement, Kalehe, République Démocratique du Congo; and the University of Duhok, Iraq. Her original academic specializations have been twofold, first, critical terrorism studies from a peace studies perspective, focusing on the role of humiliation in relation to the emergence of insurgencies, mostly in a Middle Eastern context, and second, post-liberal peace studies, from a decolonial perspective. She is now focusing her research on higher education in emergencies; and open recognition networks to build sustainable peace. Prior to her appointment to Afghanistan, she coordinated the establishment of the quality framework for HPass, the LinkedIn-type platform for humanitarian workers and volunteers. She is also engaging in selected academic activities within the fields of peace education, peace-building research, and critical terrorism studies. 

Visit: http://www.victoriacfontan.com ; https://www.auaf.edu.af/about-us/our-team/administration/

Dr. Virginia Cawagas

Dr. Cawagas (Philippines/Canada) is an Adjunct Faculty at the University of Alberta, Canada. She was a Professor at the UN-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. Prof. Cawagas has a Doctorate in Peace and Development Education, MS in Educational Management and BS in Education. Her scholarly interests include peace and development education, curriculum development, education for sustainable development, global education, and multicultural education in both formal and nonformal modes. She has taught and conducted workshops in these fields for graduate students, teachers, academics, school administrators, community leaders, soldiers, and civil servants in various North and South countries. Her publications include articles, book chapters, and books in International Journals and Publishers such as the American Psychological Association, Routledge, Palgrave, Garland, Academic Press, Sumach, and International Journal for Curriculum and Instruction among others.

Visit: http://www.ualberta.ca/educational-policy studies/people/faculty/adjunct-faculty.html

Dr. Zeynep Kasli

Zeynep Kaşlı is an Assistant Professor in Migration and Development at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), part of Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her areas of interest are human (im)mobility, borders, transnationalism and citizenship that transcend the disciplinary boundaries between political science, sociology, geography and socio-legal studies. Across these areas, she has published in journals such as Political Geography, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of Refugee Studies and Alternatives: Global, Local, Political as well as other scholarly and non-scholarly periodicals and edited volumes. She completed her Ph.D. in the Interdisciplinary Near and Middle Eastern Studies Program and Graduate Certificate in Law and Society Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle with a dissertation titled (Re)Bordering Territory and Citizenship on the Greek-Turkish Borderland (March 2017). She holds BA in Political Science from Boğaziçi University, MA in Social and Public Policy from University of Leeds, MA in Political Science from Sabancı University. Before joining ISS, she has recently worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Horizon 2020 ReSOMA project and Cities of Migration Project, under the supervision of Peter Scholten at Erasmus University, as visiting Professor at Vienna University, Political Science Department and lecturer at Leiden University College.

Visit: https://www.eur.nl/en/people/zeynep-kasli

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