Professor of Political Science, Bocconi University Catherine de Vries is a Dean of International Affairs and Professor of Political Science at Bocconi University. She is also a Research Associate at the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy and an associate member of Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Her work can be broadly situated in the areas political behaviour, political economy and EU politics, and has appeared in leading political science journals, such as the American Political Science Review, Annual Review of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics. She has published several books Euroscepticism and the Future of European Integration (Oxford University Press, 2018), Political Entrepreneurs: The Rise of Challenger Parties in Europe with Sara B. Hobolt (Princeton University Press) and Foundations of European Politics with Sara B. Hobolt, Sven-Oliver Proksch and Jonathan Slapin (Oxford University Press, 2021). Catherine is currently working on research project (LOSS), funded through a Consolidator grant by the European Research Council, which examines the conditions under which economic hardship affects support for socially conservative political agendas.
Associate Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder Associate Professor Casey Fiesler researches and teaches in the areas of technology ethics, internet law and policy, and online communities. At University of Colorado Boulder she is also a Fellow in the Silicon Flatirons Institute for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship and holds a courtesy appointment in Computer Science. Her work on technology ethics, ethics education, and broadening participation in computing has been funded by Mozilla's Responsible Computer Science Challenge, the Omidyar Network, and the National Science Foundation, including an NSF CAREER grant. Her research has also been covered everywhere from The New York Times to Teen Vogue, and she is a prolific public scholar who is passionate about educating the public about technology ethics and policy, whether it's in an op-ed or on TikTok (@professorcasey). Fiesler holds a PhD from Georgia Tech in Human-Centered Computing and a JD from Vanderbilt University Law School.
Senior Lecturer, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney Christopher Harrison joined the University of Sydney's Family Medicine Research Centre (FMRC) in March 2002. He has been a primary care researcher for two decades now. He completed his PhD in 2017 which investigated the best way to define and measure multimorbidity. Dr Harrison's study interests are macro health and policy issues, including workforce, effect of vaccinations, the prevalence and patterns of multimorbidity and GP access and billing.
Assistant Professor in Strategy and Organization, Utrecht University Coen Rigtering works as an Assistant Professor in Strategy and Organization at the Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E.). He holds Master degree (cum laude) in Policy, Communication and Organization from the VU University in Amsterdam and a Ph.D. in Corporate Entrepreneurship from the Utrecht University. His primary research interests are in the field of corporate entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, and strategic management. His work is published in several academic journals such as: Journal of Business Venturing, Academy of Management Discoveries, British Journal of Management, and Review of Managerial Science.
Lecturer in the history of international releations and war , Utrecht University I am a lecturer in the history of international relations and war. My specialisation is military history. My PhD thesis was on the Dutch military's tactical conduct in the Indonesian decolonization war 1945-1949. My PhD thesis was published for a wider audience in the Netherlands. I have published in English and Dutch on violence, tactics and the post 1945 decolonization wars. My current research is on the Austro-Hungarian armed forces and its war against suspected civilians and illegal combatant’s during the First World War. This fall, I also designed and taught a class for MA students on Europe’s land and colonial empires during both world wars.
