Professor of Law, University of South Carolina Cassandra Jones Havard joined South Carolina Law as a professor of law in Fall 2022 after serving on the faculties of the Temple University Beasley School of Law and the University of Baltimore School of Law. She teaches courses in banking, financial services regulation, entrepreneurship, venture capital financing, corporate, and commercial law. Her current scholarship focuses on the intersection of financial services regulation, systemic risk, and consumer welfare and race. She has written numerous articles and book chapters on these topics and others. At the University of Baltimore, Jones Havard was the director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Scholars Program, a pipeline program for undergraduates who are members of under-represented groups in the legal profession. She received the Saul Ewing Excellence in Transactional Teaching Award in 2015 and 2020; a University of Iowa Innovation, Business, & Law Prize in 2020; and she was recognized as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women in 2018. Jones Havard is a graduate of Bennett College. She earned the juris doctorate degree at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, where she was editor-in-chief of the Black Law Journal. After law school, Jones Havard clerked for the late Hon. A. Leon Higginbotham on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and served as a counsel for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, and an attorney-advisor for the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Research Dean for Agriculture, Food and Health, University of Reading Carol was appointed as Assistant Professor at University of Reading in January 2007 and promoted to Professor of Crop Quality for Health in 2017. Carol is presently Research Dean for Agriculture Food and Health and was a member of the Agriculture Food and Veterinary Science Unit of Assessment panel for REF2021. Carol leads a research group that takes a food-system wide approach to improving the quality of fresh produce and ensuring that everyone has access to it. She directs FoodSEqual, one of four projects funded as part of a £47.5 million investment by government into transforming the UK food system, which aims to co-produce healthy, sustainable food systems for disadvantaged communities. When not supporting academic research Carol can most likely be found training and competing her dressage horses, or nurturing her garden and discovering just how difficult it is to try to grow your own food.
Humanitarian Adviser, The University of Melbourne Australian diplomat for over 30 years. After retiring from that job, the chief diplomat for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Geneva. After retiring again, various advisory and teaching functions - done from Melbourne.
Research Associate, Loughborough University Chun Liu is Research Associate in Multimodality working on The Kinesemiotic Body project. Chun’s research is on multimodal semiotics, interpersonal pragmatics, the pragmatics of fiction and the pragmatics of translation.
Research Fellow, King's College London Carl Miller combines data and analysis with immersive, first-hand reporting to understand how times are changing. He is a co-founder of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos, the first UK think tank institute dedicated to studying the digital world. As its Research Director, he has focused on building new machine learning-driven approaches to robustly study online life. He has written over 20 major studies spanning online electoral interference, radicalisation, digital politics, conspiracy theories, cyber-crime and internet governance. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London, a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Strategic Dialogue, a Fellow at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime, an Associate of the Imperial War Museum and a member of the Society Board of the British Computing Society. Carl speaks to audiences around the world about what the digital revolution means to them, including in Parliament, Oxford University, the British Academy, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Cabinet Office, Home Office, Wired, Shell, the Mayor of London, at Latitude Festival, and at large corporate and international events in Chicago, Thailand, Vienna, Leiden, Berlin, California, Kosovo, Prague and Canada. He has presented a special report for the BBC on fake news merchants and has written for Wired, The Economist, The New Scientist, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The National, News Week, The Irish Examiner, CityAM, and for a number of websites and academic journals. His appears regularly on national and international media, including BBC News at One, News at Six, BBC Daily Politics, BBC Click, Radio 4 Today Programme, Victoria Derbyshire, BBC World, GMT, Trending, BBC Radio Scotland, Good Morning Scotland, BBC Talkback, World Tonight, 5Live, LBC, ABC, CNN, Sky News, Sky Digital View, and has been Sky’s social media pundit during coverage of a number of by-elections and political debates. His debut book, The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab, was published in 2018 by Penguin Random House, and won the 2019 Transmission Prize.
Professor of Business Information Systems, University of Sydney I am a Professor at the University of Sydney Business School. My research interests broadly center around the interactions between institutional properties, technological features and organizational strategies that influence the design and implementation of cybersecurity management. Before joining the University of Sydney, I have worked in several leading institutions in the Asia-Pacific including City University of Hong Kong, National Taiwan University and Tongji University. I currently serve as Senior Editor at the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, and Information & Management, and on the editorial board of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, and the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.
