Academic Associate, Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University Diya Uberoi, PhD, LLM, JD, MPhil, BA. is a human rights scholar and advocate, with significant experience working with international and national organizations in the field of health and human rights. Her research interests lie at the intersection of law and public health, with a focus on genetic discrimination, equity in matters of data sharing and access to medicines in low- and middle-income countries. She is the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health Policy Anlayst at the CGP and the coordinator of the Genetic Discrimination Observatory.
Professor in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Trinity College Dublin David Shepherd is Professor in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in Trinity’s School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies, a member of its Loyola Institute and was the founding director of the Trinity Centre for Biblical Studies from 2016 to 2019. He is co-author of Ezra & Nehemiah (Eerdmans, 2018), Bertolt Brecht and the David Fragments (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) and author of Targum and Translation (Brill, 2004), The Bible on Silent Film (CUP, 2013), and most recently, King David, Innocent Blood, and Bloodguilt (OUP, 2023). His current research on light variation and religious imagery in stained glass is funded by Templeton. After serving in various roles at Trinity, Prof Shepherd was appointed as Trinity’s Senior Lecturer and Dean of Undergraduate Studies in 2021.
Senior Vice President of Enrollment Management, Drexel University As the Senior Vice President for Enrollment Management at Drexel University, I lead the strategic planning and implementation of all aspects of student enrollment, from recruitment and admission to support retention and graduation. I have over 25 years of experience in the higher education industry and hold an Ed.D in Educational Leadership and Administration from Lindenwood University. My core competencies include program evaluation, student access/enrollment, crisis management, and tuition revenue maximization. I have a proven track record of improving enrollment metrics and graduation rates, as well as restructuring financial aid and enhancing student life-cycle. I am an innovator with creativity, public policy, social justice, and data-driven focus, who is a skilled storyteller and an accomplished public speaker, coach, leader, and mentor. My mission is to create a diverse, inclusive, and accessible learning environment for all students and to foster their academic success and personal growth.
Assistant Professor of History, Brigham Young University Daren Ray specialises in the history of Africa. He earned his PhD and MA in African history at the University of Virginia (2014/2008) and his BA in history at BYU (2006). He previously taught at the American University in Cairo, Connecticut College, and Auburn University. His multidisciplinary research focuses on the creation of ethnic and religious identities in east Africa and has received support from Fulbright-Hays and Social Science Research Council fellowships. He has published chapters in two books (Borderlands in World History and The Swahili World), articles in History in Africa and The Muslim World Journal, and co-edited a special issue on Muslim Modernities in The Muslim World Journal. His first book, Ethnicity, Identity and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa, draws on linguistic, archaeological, ethnographic and archival research to demonstrate how communities in Africa adapted pre-colonial identities to modern contexts such as British imperialism, African nationalism and global Islamic movements. His next project will offer a social history of waqfs (Islamic land trusts) in the western Indian Ocean that examines how east Africans reframed Islamic and British legal institutions to accommodate their notions of family and social obligations.
Senior Researcher, Historian and Complexity Scientist, University of Toronto Dan is an historian and complexity scientist. He is Senior Researcher and Project Manager of Seshat: Global History Databank. He is also Affiliate Faculty at the Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, in the Social Complexity and Collapse Research Group, and Senior Researcher in the Social-AI lab at the University of Toronto. His current research employs comparative historical and social scientific methods to explore the causes and limiting factors to economic growth, societal development, and general wellbeing. In particular, he is interested in understanding the role of prosocial cultural traits in promoting equitable distribution of resources and limiting predatory activity in past societies. He holds a PhD in Classics from New York University, where he studied economic and social development in the high Roman Empire.
Professor of History and Medical Humanities, Humboldt University of Berlin I am a historian of medicine, science and technology, with expertise in the history of epidemics, the politics of health, and Cold War history. My work focuses on questions of global health and biomedical research in the Cold War era, using the locality of Eastern Europe as a starting point. My research is informed by gender history, history of childhood and disability history, and is in conversation with medical anthropology, sociological approaches and political science. I received my PhD in History from Rutgers University and before joining Exeter I was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and a postdoctoral fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. My interest spans from the politics of epidemic management to public health systems and access to therapeutics. My book, Polio Across the Iron Curtain: Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic was published open access in 2018 with Cambridge University Press. I have written on the global infrastructure of diphtheria antitoxin, the politics of vaccination in Eastern Europe, hospital care of disabled children in communist cotexts and about shifting epidemic narratives in historical analysis.
