Assistant Professor, Department of Environment and Geography, Bishop's University I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environment and Geography at Bishop's University, in Sherbrooke, Quebec. I completed my PhD in Human Geography with a specialization in Environmental Studies from the University of Toronto’s Department of Geography & Planning. I also completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Culinaria Research Centre at the University of Toronto Scarborough before joining Bishop’s. My research interests include: food sovereignty, agroecology, climate change, environmental justice, social movements, agriculture, food security, labour and equality in the food system, urban political ecology, and cooperatives and other alternative economic initiatives (especially in food and farming). I have published in journals such as Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, The Journal of Peasant Studies, and Agriculture and Human Values.
Professor of Agricultural Engineering, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology Eng. Bancy Mati is the founder Chairperson of the Association of Irrigation Acceleration Platform (AIAP). A Professor at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), she is an expert on land and water management with particular interest in irrigation, water harvesting, and the technologies, approaches and policy support that enhance upscaling and expanding irrigated agriculture in Kenya and in Africa. She holds a PhD degree on Agricultural Engineering, Food Production and Rural Land Use from Cranfield University of United Kingdom; MSc degree in Land and Water Management and BSc degree in Agricultural Engineering, the latter from University of Nairobi. She is a registered Consulting Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Kenya (FIEK) and Lead Expert in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). Prof. Mati is member of the UN Steering Committee of the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE). She is in the Board of Management of the Upper Tana Nairobi Water Fund (UTNWF), and in the Steering Committee 2 of the Kenya Water for Industry Association (KWIA). She is on the Advisory Board of the FogNet Alliance. Previously, Prof. Mati served in the Advisory Committee of the United Nations University Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNUFLORES)
Senior Lecturer in American Studies, University of Hull Dr Barnaby Haran teaches and researches American art and visual culture, with an emphasis on photography and radical cultural practices. He is interested in transnational cultural relations, especially the American and Soviet interchanges of the interwar years, which is the subject of his monograph 'Watching the Red Dawn: the American Avant-Garde and the Soviet Union (Manchester University Press, 2016). He has written and delivered papers on the photographer Margaret Bourke-White, the painter Alice Neel, and the curator Jane Heap in relation to politics, work, and gender. His current research concerns radical photography and racial injustice.
Research Fellow, University of Sheffield I am a Research Fellow based at the Mesothelioma UK Research Centre, University of Sheffield. My research interests are communication between patients and health care professionals, relationship-centred care, clinical trial participation and employing creative and participatory approaches to enable patient and public involvement. I am enthusiastic and committed to conducting research to improve the experiences of mesothelioma patients and their families.
Researcher, Utrecht University Bora Lancee obtained her doctorate from the Utrecht School of Economics at the beginning of 2023. She specialized in experimental and behavioral economics, with a particular focus on the role of attention in decision-making. She is currently a researcher for the Dutch Inspection of Education and is affiliated as a researcher with Utrecht University.
Director, Latin American Business Environment program, University of Florida Brian Gendreau is a Richardson Faculty Fellow and Clinical Professor of Finance at the University of Florida. Previously Brian was a market strategist at ING Investment Management, Heckman Global Advisors, and Salomon Smith Barney, and head of emerging market economics at JP Morgan. Before that he was an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Brian has a PhD in from the Wharton School and a MA in international relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS. He has appeared frequently on CNBC, Fox Business television, and Bloomberg television.
