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DIRIS Jean-Pierre

DIRIS Jean-Pierre

Coordinateur interministériel IRS ² et GOVSATCOM, Centre national d’études spatiales (CNES)

Coordinateur interministériel IRS ² et GOVSATCOM, Centre national d’études spatiales (CNES) Head of telecommunication and navigation projects since 2017. Management of projects in governmental and civilian/commercial space telecommunications (system/satellite/payload development and R&D), and satellite navigation projects (45 staff). During 13 years, program manager for SYRACUSE 4 (military satcom system) with French Defense, for ATHENA FIDUS (dual satcom system) in cooperation with Italy, for AGORA (civilian French digital divide). During 7 years, system technical responsible in climate change micro satellite (PARASOL), in space telecommunications (technological satellite STENTOR), in navigation per satellite (GNSS- GALILEO). During 7 years, system engineer in science projects (cosmology and stratospheric ballooning). Auditor of IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale) 52nd national session in 2015- 2016. Engineer from Sup’Aéro (INSAE, national institute of aeronautics and space) in 1988. Space systems engineering graduation, delivered by Spacetech University of Delft in 1999.

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Dr Penelope Bowyer-Pont

Dr Penelope Bowyer-Pont

Researcher, University of Sydney

Researcher, University of Sydney I have a PhD in Political Sociology from Macquarie University. I am a qualitative researcher. I have worked as a researcher for UTS, Macquarie and USYD on various projects relating to housing, rent regulation and data breaches. Currently, I work for the University of Sydney Business School.

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Delphine Raucher-Chéné

Delphine Raucher-Chéné

Professeur adjointe en Psychiatrie, McGill University

Professeur adjointe en Psychiatrie, McGill University Dre Raucher-Chéné a obtenu son diplôme français de médecine en psychiatrie en 2010 et a travaillé pendant dix ans en tant que clinicienne à temps plein dans un service psychiatrique universitaire en France. Elle a poursuivi sa formation en recherche en entreprenant une maîtrise en neuropsychologie (2012), un doctorat en psychologie (2018) et un boursier postdoctoral (2019-2021) à McGill/Douglas avant de se joindre à l’Université McGill à titre de professeure adjointe en 2023. Le programme de recherche du Dre Raucher-Chéné est axé sur le développement d’une compréhension globale de la psychopathologie cognitive des maladies mentales graves (c.-à-d. le trouble bipolaire et le trouble du spectre de la schizophrénie), à tous les stades, de la neuro-imagerie à la remédiation.

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Dominique Charron

Dominique Charron

Visiting Scholar in One Health, University of Guelph

Visiting Scholar in One Health, University of Guelph As a veterinarian and epidemiologist, Dominique Charron’s work addresses global problems at the interface of human and animal health, ecosystems, climate change and sustainability, largely through a complex systems lens. As a veterinarian and epidemiologist, she seeks to advance policy and education in One Health, while strengthening gender and social equity perspectives. In One Health and beyond, she seeks to enable more effective systems and processes for the uptake and application of science by decision makers and communities. She is a member and former Rapporteur of the One Health High-Level Expert Panel that advises the Quadripartite International organizations (World Health Organization, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, UN Environment, and World Organization for Animal Health). Most of Dominique’s career has been dedicated to developing and leading ecohealth and sustainable development research programmes at Canada’s International Development Research Centre – where she has contributed to strengthening research ethics and research quality frameworks, honed skills in results frameworks, evaluation and knowledge translation systems. Her book, Ecohealth Research in Practice (Springer, 2012) influenced the field and is widely used in teaching. Her past research addressed climate change and infectious diseases, and agroecosystem health. She has over 40 peer reviewed publications. She was a lead author of a chapter of Canada’s first Climate Change and Health Assessment (2005) and contributed to the UN Research Roadmap for the COVID-19 Recovery (2020). She holds a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Guelph.

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David A. Vivian

David A. Vivian

Visiting Assistant Professor of French Language and Culture, Soka University of America

Visiting Assistant Professor of French Language and Culture, Soka University of America I am a scholar of the environmental humanities with a focus on decolonial ecocriticism. I have a wide-ranging interest in narrative and how it shapes the human-environment relation, particularly in the context of counter-discourses to the extractivist and instrumentalist ideologies of colonial capitalism.

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Debarati Guha Sapir

Debarati Guha Sapir

Professor of Public Health, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)

Professor of Public Health, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) Debarati Guha-Sapir is Director of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) and Professor at the School of Public Health of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL). Previously trained in Calcutta University and Johns Hopkins University, she holds a doctorate in epidemiology. For over 20 years, she has been involved in field research and training in humanitarian aid issues.

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