21 May 2021 - Sheela Patel is the founder director of the Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC), an NGO based in Mumbai, that has been working since 1984 to support community organisations of the urban poor in their efforts to access secure housing...
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Hoffmann, André
19 May 2021 - André Hoffmann is a businessman, environmentalist, and philanthropist, and a passionate advocate for business as a force for good. André is Vice Chairman of Roche Holding AG, the family business. He also sits on the Board of SystemIQ, the Board of...
Nicolopoulou-Stamati, Polyxeni
17 February 2021 - Dr. Polyxeni Nicolopoulou-Stamati has organized, implemented and directed (2004-2014) the 2-year Postgraduate Master Program of the Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens entitled: “Environment and Health: Capacity Building...
Williams, Dessima
17 February 2021 - Dessima Williams is a Grenadian diplomat and former Ambassador to the United Nations from Grenada who was reappointed to the ambassadorship in 2008. She was a professor of sociology, development and gender at Brandeis University in Waltham,...
Swilling, Mark
17 February 2021 - The primary research focus of my career can be defined as ‘societal transitions’, initially with respect to democratization and governance up until the late 1990s, and subsequently within the wider discipline of sustainability studies. The dynamics...
Preiser, Rika
17 February 2021 - Dr Rika Preiser’s research explores the conceptual development of complexity and how the study of the features and dynamics of Complex Adaptive Systems inform novel ways for thinking and anticipating more equitable social-ecological transformation...
Ratanawaraha, Apiwat
17 February 2021 - ASSOC. PROF. APIWAT RATANAWARAHA (PH.D.) Educational history Ph.DMIT, USA 2006 (Economic Development & Technology Policy) MCPMIT, USA 2002 (International Development & Regional Planning) M. Phil. University of Cambridge, UK 1997 (Land...
Ageev, Alexander I.
09 November 2020 - Doctor of Economics, Professor, member of the scientific and expert communities in Russia, China, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and some other countries. General Director of the International Research Institute for Advanced Systems (IRIAS),...
Giri, Ananta Kumar
09 October 2020 - Ananta Kumar Giri is a Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. He has been a Visiting Professor and Researcher at many universities in India and abroad, including Aalborg University (Denmark), Maison des sciences de...
Gilmour, John
01 October 2020 - As a social entrepreneurial activist, John Gilmour has researched, piloted and scaled the LEAP holistic educational development programme for economically marginalized African children living in townships and rural spaces in South Africa. John has...