Postdoctoral research fellow in social sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle Intigam Mamedov is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Social Sciences, Northumbria University. His area of interests include critical security studies, international relations, Russian and Post-Soviet Politics. Intigam earned his PhD degree in Politics from Lomonosov Moscow State University. His current research focuses on the role of narratives in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Research Assistant at Flinders University Palaeontology Laboratory, Flinders University In early 2023 I received my PhD with a thesis on the systematics and palaeoecology of the giant fossil kangaroo genus Protemnodon. My recent research focusses on the fossil kangaroos of New Guinea. I undertook a Bachelor's Degree in science majoring in evolutionary biology at the University of Adelaide. My Honours project, also at Adelaide Uni, was on the fossils, evolution and biogeography of a peculiar genus of vine, Ripogonum, from New Zealand and eastern Australia.
Academic - statistician, University of Pretoria Prof Inger Fabris-Rotelli is currently an associate professor in the Department of Statistics, University of Pretoria. She has been at the Department of Statistics since 2004. She holds a PhD in mathematical sciences, obtained in 2013, an MSc in applied mathematics, a double BSc (Hons) in mathematical statistics and applied mathematics and a BSc in applied mathematics. She has supervised 56 honours and 24 master's students to completion, and is currently supervising 6 honours, 6 master's and 7 doctoral students, and has a particular passion for postgraduate supervision. She has published 27 peer-reviewed journal articles, 21 peer-reviewed conference proceedings papers and 1 book chapter. She was on the executive of the South African Statistical Association (SASA) from 2012 to 2018, and from 2019 has been a director on the ICCSSA (Institute of Certificated and Chartered Statisticians in South Africa) board. She is the current president of SASA and the CEO of ICCSSA. She is also a member of ISI, SIAM and IMS internationally, and the Golden Key Society, SASA, S2A3, SAMS, ICCSSA (registered as a chartered statistician from 2019), GISSA, SAMSA, GASA and RLadies Johannesburg co-chair locally. She is a SACNASP council member elected 2021 – 2025. Her research interests are in spatial statistics and GIS, as well as remote sensing and general image processing, including spatial epidemiology and criminology. She has a number of countrywide research collaboration groups, namely SEPIMOD (Spatial Epidemiological Modelling) and StatSNetSA (a capacity development research group for building doctoral supervision skills in academic statistics in South Africa and further in general supporting the young academics in statistics in South Africa). Both these groups have resulted in a number of publications, postgraduate student growth and young academic development. She has a National Research Foundation Y2 rating in recognition of her research and received the University of Pretoria Exceptional Young Researcher award in 2023. Prof Fabris-Rotelli is an Abe Bailey Fellow (2007 tour award), is a 2018 fellow of the TUKS Young Researcher Leadership Program (TYRLP), and was selected as a BRICS Young Scientist 2020 in Artificial Intelligence.
Head of Digital Economy Research, UCL Senior Research Associate, UCL IIPP. Leading research team on digital rents at UCL, IIPP, sponsored by the Omidyar Network. Published influential papers on algorithmic rents. Visiting Associate Professor, University of Johannesburg. Dr. Ilan Strauss is a senior research associate at UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (London), where he leads the digital economy research team with Mariana Mazzucato (principal investigator) and Tim O’Reilly – funded by the Omidyar Network. His work investigates new theories of harm and competition in digital markets, with an emphasis on Big Tech’s digital platforms and ecosystems. Ilan is also the receipt of an Economic Security Project grant (jointly with Dr. Jangho Yang) looking at the role of acquisitions in Big Tech attaining dominance in artificial intelligence (AI) innovation. llan is a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa (industrial policy). Previously, he taught macroeconomics at Rice University (Jones Graduate School of Business) and at New York University (Division of Applied Undergraduate Studies). Ilan has consulted for Airfinity (London), UNCTAD (Investment Division), the African Development Bank (AfDB), UNIDO, the ILO, and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Ilan holds a Ph.D in economics from the New School for Social Research (New York) and an MSc in economics from SOAS (University of London, First Class). For recent information see: www.ilan-strauss.org
Senior Researcher and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Water and Production Economics Research Unit, University of Cape Town Dr Aina is a senior researcher and postdoctoral research fellow in the Water and Production Economics Research Unit at the University of Cape Town. His recent experience includes a visiting scholar position at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. In addition, Dr Aina is a member of the River Basin Modelling Group at the School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside. Dr Aina has developed an active research portfolio at the intersection of water and environmental economics, agricultural economics, and behavioral economics. He also has research interests in various sub-fields of development economics, particularly as they relate to environmental and resource economics. Dr Aina is passionate about employing state-of-the-art econometric techniques and applied economic theory to address urgent questions in water governance and development policy. Prior to his PhD, Dr Aina graduated with an MSc in agricultural economics with distinction from the University of Ilorin, and was awarded an ARISE fellowship through the Intra-Africa academic mobility scheme of the European Union.
Emeritus professor of Criminology, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa Irvin Waller is professor emeritus of criminology at the University of Ottawa. He is author of Science and Secrets of Ending Violent Crime (2019) and numerous publications use research and data to advance crime prevention and victim support policies. In the 1970s, he was a senior official in the Canadian government. He has served on national commissions in Canada, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. He gained particular recognition for pioneering the United Nations General Assembly resolution on principles of justice for victims as well as international organizations influencing prevention and victims' rights in Europe, the Americas and in the world. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. Irvin Waller est professeur émérite de criminologie à l'Université d'Ottawa. Ses nombreuses publications utilisent la recherche et les données pour faire avancer les politiques de prévention du crime et d'aide aux victimes. Dans les années 1970, il était un haut fonctionnaire du gouvernement canadien. Il a siégé à des commissions nationales au Canada, en Afrique du Sud, au Royaume-Uni et aux États-Unis. Il a acquis une reconnaissance particulière pour avoir été le pionnier de la résolution de l'Assemblée générale des Nations Unies sur les principes de justice pour les victimes ainsi que les organisations internationales influençant la prévention et les droits des victimes en Europe, la Amériques et dans le monde. Il a un doctorat. de l'Université de Cambridge.
