Lecturer in Management, Yale University Professor Amy L. Fraher is a leadership scholar and author of the award winning book 'The Next Crash: How Short-Term Profit Seeking Trumps Airline Safety' (Cornell University Press). She currently lectures in the Yale School of Management and has previously held academic appointments in the Southampton and Birmingham Business Schools in the UK and University of California Davis and University of San Francisco in the USA. A retired U.S. Navy Commander and Naval Aviator, and former United Airlines pilot, Fraher has over 6,000 mishap-free flight hours in four jet airliners, five military aircraft, and several types of civilian airplanes. With almost thirty years of leadership experience in high-risk fields, she is a crisis management expert and consults internationally to a broad range of organizations. Her focus is on improving leadership and team performance in crisis by helping people understand how group dynamics can debilitate operations.
Professeur en Information-Communication à l’Institut Français de presse (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas), Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas Lauréat de l'IEP de Paris et docteur en science politique, il est professeur des universités, spécialiste des réseaux socionumériques, de la sociologie du journalisme et du webjournalisme, des fake news et de la communication politique. Arnaud Mercier enseigne à l'Institut Français de Presse (IFP) et appartient au Centre d'analyse et de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les médias (CARISM). Responsable depuis janvier 2022, au sein du CARISM de l'Observatoire du podcast d'information (programme de recherche Obcast), il est chercheur associé au CREM (université de Lorraine). Il fut le premier président de The Conversation France à sa création en 2015.
Maîtresse de conférences HDR en psychologie sociale, Université Paris Nanterre – Université Paris Lumières Andreea GRUEV-VINTILA est maîtresse de conférences HDR en psychologie sociale à l'Université Paris Nanterre UFR Sciences sociales et administration-LAPPS, autrice du livre "Le contrôle coercitif : au coeur de la violence conjugale" (Dunod, 2023). Elle s'intéresse aux processus psychosociaux, l'impact et l'incrimination de la violence et du contrôle coercitif. Ses travaux contribuent aux politiques publiques et pénales sur la violence conjugale/intrafamiliale. Elle a coordonné le projet ANR XTREAMIS et assuré la coordination France de plusieurs projets européens.
Associate Professor, Global Development, University of East Anglia Anna Macdonald is an associate professor in global development at the University of East Anglia and a senior visiting fellow at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa at the LSE. Anna is currently co-investigator on the ESRC-funded Centre for Public Authority and International Development (CPAID), which conducts interdisciplinary research to strengthen knowledge about how governance functions in impoverished and marginalised places across the world. She is co-editor of Humanitarianism: A Dictionary of Concepts (Routledge 2018) and her research has most recently been published in Africa, Development and Change, the International Journal of Transitional Justice, the Journal of Refugee Studies, African Affairs, and Law and Society Review.
Professor of Structural Engineering, Drexel University Dr. Abieyuwa Aghayere is a Professor of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering whose research focuses on structural design - concrete, steel and wood, structural failure analysis, retrofitting of existing structures, new structural systems and materials, engineering education. Dr. Aghayere has been cited as a structural failure analysis expert on CNN, CTV News and Voice of America regarding the collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida. He has been featured in numerous articles in the Miami Herald, The New York Times, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. His contributions regarding the Surfside condominium collapse have been included media stories and coverage that earned a team of reporters at the Miami Herald the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in the Breaking News category. He has been featured on podcasts and in documentaries on The Discovery Channel, The BBC, and The Smithsonian Channel discussing the Surfside condominium collapse, and has delivered several invited lectures on the collapse, notably to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - the federal agency charged with investigating the Surfside condominium collapse.
