Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Macalester College David Bressoud was Director of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences from 2017 through 2021. He is now Dewitt Wallace Professor Emeritus at Macalester College, having served on the faculty from 1994 to 2020. He is also a former President of the Mathematical Association of America, a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He served in the Peace Corps, teaching math and science at the Clare Hall School in Antigua, West Indies before studying with Emil Grosswald at Temple University and then teaching at Penn State for 17 years. He chaired the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Macalester from 1995 until 2001. He has held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Minnesota, Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg, France), and the State College Area High School. David has received the MAA Gung and Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics, the MAA Distinguished Teaching Award (Allegheny Mountain Section), the MAA Beckenbach Book Award for Proofs and Confirmations, and has been a Pólya Lecturer and a Leitzel Lecturer for the MAA. He is a recipient of Macalester's Jefferson Award. He has published over sixty research articles in number theory, combinatorics, special functions, and mathematics education. His other books include Factorization and Primality Testing, Second Year Calculus from Celestial Mechanics to Special Relativity, A Radical Approach to Real Analysis (now in 2nd edition), A Radical Approach to Lebesgue's Theory of Integration, Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas, A Course in Computational Number Theory (with Wagon), and Calculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic (with Demana, Waits, Kennedy, & Boardman). David has chaired the MAA special interest group, Teaching Advanced High School Mathematics as well as the AP Calculus Development Committee and has served as Director of the FIPSE-sponsored program Quantitative Methods for Public Policy and PI for two NSF-sponsored national studies of Calculus: Characteristics of Successful Programs in College Calculus (NSF #0910240) and Progress through Calculus (NSF #1430540). A native of Pennsylvania, David lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Chercheur postdoctoral, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC) Je suis docteur en sciences de l'environnement. Je travaille comme chercheur postdoctoral et chargé de cours à l'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Mon travail porte sur la mise en œuvre du développement durable. Je travaille sur les outils de mise en œuvre, la gouvernance et l'engagement des parties prenantes dans les questions de durabilité et de transition. Au cours des douze dernières années, j'ai accompagné diverses organisations aux niveaux local et international sur des enjeux de développement durable, en outre dans l’élaboration de plan de développement durable. Mes plus notables accompagnements incluent la Ville de Québec, les Producteurs de lait du Québec, la Coopérative de transport maritime et aérien et les autorités portuaires canadiennes. En partenariat avec l'Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, j'ai participé à des ateliers de renforcement des capacités dans plusieurs pays de l’Afrique francophone, en Europe, dans les Caraïbes et aux États-Unis.
Coordinatrice du projet de recherche sur la finance et le climat, Agence française de développement (AFD) Diplômée d’un double cursus en finance et en statistiques (Paris IV et ENSAE), Djedjiga Kachenoura commence sa carrière dans l’univers de la gestion d’actifs « traditionnels » puis la gestion alternative (HSBC et Allianz) avant de rejoindre la Banque Africaine de Développement en tant que responsable de financement de projets d’infrastructure. Par la suite, Djedjiga rejoint l’Agence Française de Développement où elle est actuellement en charge de la finance climat/finance durable au sein du département « Diagnostics économiques et politiques publiques » : Elle est pilote du dialogue de politiques publiques autour de la transition bas-carbone.
Professor of Practice and Director of the Institute for European Policymaking, Bocconi University Daniel Gros is Professor of Practice at Bocconi University and Director of the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University. Between 2020 and 2022 he was Distinguished Fellow and Member of the Board of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). Before that, was the director of CEPS since 2000. In 2020, he held a Fulbright fellowship and was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In March-June, 2022 he was visiting Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute, Florence. Gros is also currently an adviser to the European Parliament. Previously he worked at the International Monetary Fund and collaborated with the European Commission as economic adviser to the Delors Committee, which developed plans for the euro. He has been a member of high-level advisory bodies to the French and Belgian governments and advised numerous central banks and governments, including Greece, the United Kingdom, and the United States at the highest political level. He has published extensively on international economic affairs, including on monetary and fiscal policy, exchange rates, banking, and climate change. He is the author of several books and editor of Economie Internationale and International Finance. He has taught at several leading European universities and contributes a globally syndicated column on European economic issues to Project Syndicate. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.
Climate Data Scientist, CSIRO Damien is a Climate Data Scientist in the Climate Science Centre at CSIRO. His research interests are many and varied, ranging from atmospheric planetary waves to anthropogenic changes in the global energy and water cycles to climate extremes and variability.
