Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in HRM & Future of Work, University of Bristol Giorgos Gouzoulis is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in HRM & Future of Work at the University of Bristol, School of Management since 2021. His research focuses on how globalisation and financialisation affect wage bargaining, workforce casualisation, and industrial conflict, focusing on advanced and emerging economies. His work has appeared in world-leading academic journals, including the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Economic and Industrial Democracy, the Industrial Relations Journal, the Socio-Economic Review, and Sociology of Health & Illness, among others. Also, Giorgos is a member of the editorial board of Work, Employment and Society.
Professor of Philosophy and Digital Humanities, University of Alberta Dr. Geoffrey Martin Rockwell is a Professor of Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the University of Alberta. He has published on videogames, textual visualization and analysis, ethics of big data, and computing in the humanities including a recent book with Stéfan Sinclair from the MIT Press, Hermeneutica: Computer-Assisted Interpretation in the Humanities (2016). He is the project lead of the Text Analysis Portal for Research and co-developer of Voyant Tools , a suite of text analysis tools, for which he and Sinclair were awarded the CSDH/SCHN 2017 Outstanding Contribution Award. He is currently the Director of the Kule Institute for Advanced Study, President of the Western Humanities Alliance, and President of the Canadian Society of Digital Humanities (CSDH/SCHN).
Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow Gerard Carruthers was lecturer in the Department of English Studies, University of Strathclyde (1995- 2000), where he taught American, English and Scottish literatures. Previously he was Research Fellow at the Centre for Walter Scott Studies, University of Aberdeen (1993-5). Gerard Carruthers is a graduate of the universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde and of St Andrew's College of Education, Glasgow. His PhD thesis was on 'The Invention of Scottish Literature During the Long Eighteenth Century'. His research interests include Scottish literature from 1690 to the 20th century, particularly Robert Burns, Muriel Spark, James Bridie, Alexander Geddes and Walter Scott
Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder His primary research interests focus on gaining an improved understanding of how the physical Earth system operates. He is specifically interested in using the Quaternary (the last 2.58 million years to the present) as a means to reconstruct the coupled ocean/atmospheric/ice climate system. By reconstructing past environmental changes, it is possible to get a better understanding of the rates and magnitude of natural climate variability and the various feedback mechanisms in the global climate system. He is also interested in the role of humans in the modification of landscapes and ecosystem on Quaternary timescales.
Senior Research Scholar in Financial Markets, Columbia University Gautam Jain is a Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). He focuses on the role of financial markets and instruments, including thematic bonds and carbon markets, in the transition to net-zero emissions, particularly in emerging economies. Gautam joined the center after a long and fulfilling career in the financial industry where he covered emerging markets as a portfolio manager and strategist. He has worked at asset management firms and investment banks, including The Rohatyn Group, Barclays Capital, and Millennium Partners. He has helped manage emerging market local debt and hard-currency bond portfolios, encompassing currencies, interest rate instruments, and sovereign credits. He specialized in portfolio construction and asset allocation incorporating macroeconomic, policy, and political developments in emerging market and developing economies. Gautam holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Columbia University. He also has an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Iowa State University and a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is a CFA charter holder and a Cornell EMI Fellow. He has co-authored publications in the Journal of Derivatives, the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Applied Probability, and Probability in Engineering and Informational Science. He has also contributed chapters for the 2020 and 2021 Cornell EMI Annual Reports.
