Oceanographic Data Scientist, Moana Project's Te Tiro Moana Team Lead, MetService — Te Ratonga Tirorangi Dr Julie Jakoboski is an oceanographer at the MetOcean division of the Meteorological Service of New Zealand, based in Whāingaroa (Raglan). As the Team Lead of the Te Tiro Moana ("Eyes on the Ocean") workstream of the Moana Project, Julie is directing the deployment of the Mangōpare temperature and depth sensors with the goal of obtaining measurements from Aotearoa New Zealand's oceans to better inform the public on changing ocean temperatures. Bringing her skills in observational oceanography data and ocean models, Julie guides a nation-wide ocean temperature ocean observing system, in partnership with technology partner Zebra-Tech, the commercial fishing sector, and citizen scientists, to improve the availability of ocean measurements Aotearoa New Zealand-wide. She is passionate about collaborating with organisations locally and globally to encourage co-design with fishing vessels in the ocean observing space.
PhD Candidate, Early Modern History, McMaster University Justin Vovk is a PhD Candidate and SSHRC Doctoral Fellow in early modern history at McMaster University. His dissertation, "Courting Death: Reconceptualizing Aulic Authority in Habsburg and British Royal Funerals, 1694-1780," examines the role of courts in the pomp and pageantry of royal funerals. Justin is an expert in European royal history and has been interviewed by numerous media outlets, including CBC, CTV, Global News, CHCH, CFRA 580 Ottawa, CKLW AM 800 Ottawa, AM 1100 Kelowna, and 610 CKTB Toronto. He is also a regular commentator for CBC's "The Royal Fascinator." His expertise focuses on the ceremonies and rituals of monarchy, particularly funerals and coronations, and their applicability to our modern world.
Senior Lecturer in History, Lancaster University I am a historian at Lancaster University. My work explores the cultural, political, and legal dimensions of economic change in Britain since the 1700s. I have published on subjects ranging from the early history of corporate governance and the regulation of commercial fraud, to the history of the financial press and cultural attitudes to advertising. My current research has two strands. The first explores gender and financial markets, focusing on the neglected history of women stockbrokers in the century before they were admitted to the London Stock Exchange in 1973. The second examines the financialisation of everyday life in Britain since 1850. Concentrating on ordinary people and everyday experiences, rather than financial elites and ideologies, it seeks to provide a history of finance 'from below'. It is particularly interested in the spatial, material, and emotional dimensions of people's experiences of finance.
Research Associate with the Centre for the Changing Character of War, University of Oxford Jonathan D T Ward is the author of two books on Chinese grand strategy and US-China global competition: China's Vision of Victory and The Decisive Decade. He has been studying China, Russia, and India for nearly twenty years, from travels with truck caravans in Tibet and across the South China Sea by cargo ship in his early twenties, to accessing Chinese Communist Party archives that have now been closed to the world while a PhD candidate at Oxford, to consulting for the U.S. Department of Defense and Fortune 500 companies on China risk and global markets strategy. Dr. Ward is a research associate with the University of Oxford's Centre for the Changing Character of War. He earned his PhD at the University of Oxford, specializing in the history of modern China at Oxford's Faculty of Oriental Studies, and his M.St. in Global and Imperial History at Oxford's Faculty of History. He studied philosophy, Russian, and Chinese language at Columbia University as an undergraduate, and completed further language study in Russian and Chinese at St. Petersburg State University and Beijing University. Dr. Ward's think tanks affiliations include the Stephen M. Kellen Term Member Program at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Shawn Brimley Next Generation National Security Leaders Program at the Center for a New American Security, and the Project on Nuclear Issues at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC. Dr. Ward has brought the experience of a traveller, the discipline of a scholar, and the insight of a strategy consultant to one of the toughest, biggest challenges of our time: what does China want, how will it try to get it, and what should America do? Dr. Ward is the Founder of Atlas Organization, a Washington DC based consultancy focused on US-China global competition. He speaks Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic. A path-breaking work on Chinese global strategy, China’s Vision of Victory brings the reader to a new understanding of China’s grand-scale planning and ambitions. From seabed to space, from Africa to the Antarctic, from subsurface warfare to the rise of China’s global corporations, this book illuminates the greatest challenge of our lifetimes – the Chinese Communist Party’s ambition to end the American-led world and to bring about a century defined by Chinese power. Following on this work, Dr. Ward's second book, The Decisive Decade lays out a US and Allied grand strategy to win the long-term contest with the People's Republic of China presenting strategies that span the economic, diplomatic, military, and ideological arenas.
Thematic Director, UCL Jonathan is Senior Visiting Lecturer at UCL and interim thematic director for the International Public Policy Observatory. He also works as a Policy Fellow in Parliament developing synthesis methods for select committees. Previously Director of the Alliance for Useful Evidence at Nesta, he has prior to that been the head of policy at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), Arts and Humanities Research Council, and British Academy.
Doctoral Student in Health Psychology, University of California, Merced Jessica Marino is a doctoral student in health psychology at the University of California, Merced. She obtained her B.A. in Psychology from UC Merced in 2016 with a minor in Cognitive Science. Marino’s research focus is on the development and expression of maternal behavior. Specifically, she studies how hormones impact maternal behavior, and the intergenerational effects that the mother-child relationship can have on health. Her ultimate goal is to find protective maternal factors that may mitigate health risks in vulnerable children.
