Professor, School of Engineering, University of Guelph Dr. Beth Parker is a Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph, and Director of Morwick G360 Groundwater Research Institute. She completed her PhD in Earth Sciences at the University of Waterloo in 1996 and her MSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Duke University, in 1983. She holds a Senior Industrial Research Chair in Groundwater Contamination in Fractured Media from NSERC. She specializes in high-resolution field methods for groundwater system characterization and uses innovative characterization methods to improve monitoring system design, contaminant detection, and prediction of transport mechanisms in complex flow systems including fractured rock.
Senior Researcher in Law and Economics, Università di Torino Bryan Khan is an educator and researcher affiliated with the University of Turin, the Nexa Center for Internet and Society, and the University of the West Indies. He holds BSc and MSc degrees in Economics, an LLM in Intellectual Property Law from the University of Turin, and a PhD in Law and Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is the Assistant Director of the LLM in Intellectual Property Law co-organised by the University of Turin and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), where he lectures on various topics in intellectual property law. He is also a course instructor for the WIPO-Harvard course ‘PatentX: Patent Law and Global Public Health’, and guest lecturers at a number of different institutions. Bryan has extensive experience in the fields of economic development, the creative industries, telecommunication and broadcasting regulation, and intellectual property law. As a senior legal researcher at the University of Turin, he also works on various research projects in the field of digital copyright law and trade secrets. His broader research areas include the role of social norms in copyright law, the political economy of international intellectual property law, and Caribbean development.
Visiting Researcher, Public and International Affairs, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa I am currently a Visiting Researcher at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. Prior to this role, I served as an Assistant Professor and PhD Program Coordinator at the Department of Political Science and International Studies at Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia. Additionally, I held the position of the 2021/2022 African Presidential Scholar at the University of Michigan in the US. My academic background includes a PhD in Political Science and International Studies, which I obtained from Bahir Dar University in December 2021. Prior to that, I completed my master’s and undergraduate studies in political science and international relations at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia.
Adjunct Senior Research Scholar, Institute for Health Research, University of Notre Dame Australia I have been involved in research for over four decades, with a particular focus on motor development and movement. I have published over 90 papers in numerous peer-reviewed journals,14 books and book chapters and authored 2 key teaching resources. I have also been an investigator on many grants. Most recently, along with two colleagues, Professor Helen Parker AM and Associate Professor Elizabeth Rose we have published 2 papers and released a book addressing women's sport and transgender inclusion from the biological perspective.
Associate Professor of Political Science, University at Albany, State University of New York Brian Greenhill is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University at Albany, SUNY. His research and teaching concerns the ways in which economic and social globalization affects human rights, conflict and environmental outcomes.
