Professor of Law, Fordham University Eleanor Brown is a leading scholar of property, migration, globalization, development, and race and the law. Brown is currently a Professor of Law and International Affairs at the Pennsylvania State University (University Park campus), as well as a fellow at the Rock Ethics Institute. She is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Africana Research Center and an Advisor in the Schreyer Honors College. She was also the founding faculty advisor for the Black Students Association in the School of International Affairs. In recognition of her activism and allyship for marginalized identities, both within and outside academia, Brown was named one of the first recipients of the Ona Judge Award for Human Rights by the Human Rights Society, a joint student organization at Penn State Law and the School of International Affairs. Brown, a Jamaican national, has previously been a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation, a GWIPP Fellow at the George Washington Institute of Public Policy, and a Reginald Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School. She has been a member of the board of directors of the Association for Law, Property and Society, the Conference Planning Committee for the Immigration Law Professors Association, and the Fellowship Committee for the Association of University Women. She has also served on the Scholarly Prize Committee for the Law and Society Association. Brown’s scholarship has been published in the Yale Law Journal, California Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Michigan Law Review and the New York University Law Review, among many others. She has also published with The New Republic, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times and has been a commentator on NPR. Among Brown’s academic accolades, her paper “The Blacks Who ‘Got’ Their 40 Acres” was one of two papers selected in the property category for the Yale/Harvard/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum. Brown holds a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology from Brown University and a master’s degree in politics from Oxford University, where she was Rhodes Scholar. She earned her juris doctor in 1999 from the Yale Law School and served as a clerk for the Honorable Patricia Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and the Honorable Keith Ellison of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Brown was appointed by The Most Honorable Andrew Holness, the Prime Minister of Jamaica, to the Jamaican Education Transformation Commission. She was also appointed to and served on the CARICOM Commission. She has served on the boards of several publicly traded Caribbean companies, and was the youngest director of two subsidiaries of the Bank of Nova Scotia (Jamaica), one of the largest subsidiaries of the largest Canadian bank (by market capitalization). Brown chaired the Conduct Review Committee of the Board for Scotia Jamaica Investment Management. She was a member of the Sugar Enterprise Team, the entity appointed by the Jamaican Cabinet to oversee private sector participation in the Jamaican sugar sector. Brown was previously the youngest director of JPSCo, the electric utility owned by Korea East West Power, Marubeni Corp. of Japan, and the government of Jamaica. She chaired the Pension Fund Subcommittee of the board. She was also a member of the board appointed by the chancellor charged with septennial review of the operations of the University of Technology in Jamaica. Brown was also an external board member of Caribiz, an association of Caribbean alumnae and students of Harvard Business School and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, formed to promote capital market development in the Caribbean. Brown is also active in the Anglican (Episcopalian) faith community.
Professor of Climate Science and Meteorology, University of Lincoln Edward Hanna is Professor of Climate Science and Meteorology in the College of Science. He is current lead PI of 3 multi-institute NERC grants, and Lincoln PI of a further NERC grant, with a combined value ~£2.5 million. He serves as Co-Chair of the World Climate Research Programme Climate & Cryosphere (WCRP CliC) project's Scientific Steering Group, and is the WCRP representative on the Ice Sheet Mass Balance and Sea Level (ISMASS) expert group. Edward received a BSc in Planetary Science (First Class Honours) from University College London in 1995 and completed a PhD in Satellite Remote Sensing of Antarctic Sea Ice and Climatic Couplings at the University of Bristol in 1998. This was followed by postdoctoral research in the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading between 1998 and 2000 before being appointed as Lecturer in Meteorology at the Institute of Marine Studies, University of Plymouth in 2000. In 2003 Edward was appointed as Lecturer in Climate Change at the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2006, Reader in 2010 and was awarded a personal chair in 2013, serving as Deputy Head of Department 2013-16. Edward has published >140 research papers in international peer-reviewed journals, including 5 papers in Nature (1 as lead author), 2 in Nature Climate Change, 2 in Nature Communications, 1 in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment as lead author, and 1 in Science. Together his papers have attracted >16,900 citations (H index 61) according to Google Scholar. He was listed in the top 2% of most cited scientists in his research field in a 2020 Stanford University survey. He has led an international team to reconstruct Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance, the results of which have been used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, on which he was a Contributing Author on their Fifth Assessment Report. He has also contributed as an author to many Arctic Report Cards of the US National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Another key research interest is investigating possible links between Arctic Amplification of global warming and the occurrence of extreme weather in the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes. Hanna is a founding member of an international working group on Arctic climate change-mid latitude extreme linkages, led by Dr. James E. Overland of NOAA. As part of his climatological research Edward has developed the concept of the Greenland Blocking Index related to North Atlantic polar jet stream changes, as a key driver of the recently increased Greenland ice melt. Active collaborations include with the Met Office, several other European meteorological institutes, and NOAA. Edward is a regular organiser of or invited participant in international workshops and conferences, and has given multiple invited lectures in Denmark, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and the USA. He lead-organised ISMASS international research workshops on ice-sheet mass balance and climate change in Davos, Switzerland, in June 2018, and Reykjavik, Iceland, in August 2022, and co-organised an international research workshop on Arctic-midlatitude climate linkages in Lincoln in Sept. 2023. He also co-led the "Moana Water of Life: Navigating Climate Change for Planetary Health" international conference in Lincoln in Aug/Sep 2019. Edward is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society and a member of the Climatological Observers Link and maintains a weather station at Newark.
Lecturer in International Studies, Strathmore University Edgar Githua holds a PhD in international relations from the United States International University-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya. He is affiliated with the United States International University-Africa and Strathmore University. He is the author of “Spoilers and Peace Agreements: The South Sudan Conflict (2013-2019)", published in 2023. His research interests include peace and conflict resolution, negotiation and mediation, international affairs, security, and diplomacy. He is also an internationalaffairs analyst for various media houses, including NTV Kenya, Citizen TV Kenya, VOA, TRK News, A54 News, and Capital FM.
PhD Candidate in Publishing Studies, The University of Queensland Emily Baulch is a PhD Candidate in publishing studies at The University of Queensland (UQ). She studies reading practices and the publishing industry. Her work was published in Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic. She is also a sessional academic at The University of Queensland, where she coordinated the third-year course, Publishing, Editing, and Authorship. Emily also completed a research placement at The University of Queensland Press in 2022.
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard Kennedy School Elizabeth Linos is the Emma Bloomberg Associate Professor for Public Policy and Management, and Faculty Director of The People Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. The majority of her research focuses on how to improve government by focusing on its people and the services they deliver. Specifically, she uses insights from behavioral science and evidence from public management to consider how to recruit, retain, and support the government workforce, how to reduce administrative burdens that low-income households face when they interact with their government, and how to better integrate evidence-based policymaking into government. Her research has been published in various academic journals including The Journal for Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Econometrica, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Behavioural Public Policy, and others. Her work has also been highlighted in media outlets including The New York Times, The Economist, BBC, NPR, Slate, and the Harvard Business Review. As the former VP and Head of Research and Evaluation at the Behavioral Insights Team in North America, she worked with government agencies in the U.S. and the U.K. to improve programs using behavioral science and to build capacity around rigorous evaluation. Prior to this role, Linos worked directly in government as a policy advisor to the Greek Prime Minister, George Papandreou, focusing on social innovation and public sector reform.
