Associate Professorial Research Fellow, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science Joana Setzer is an Associate Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her main areas of expertise are climate litigation and global environmental governance. Since 2013 she has been involved, and since 2020 she leads the Grantham Research Institute’s Climate Change Laws of the World project – the most comprehensive global resource on climate policy and legislation. Joana served as a Contributing Author for Working Group 3 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Review (IPCC AR6). She regularly advises a range of international, governments and non-governmental organisations. She is a frequent speaker at academic and non-academic events, and a regular source for media outlets. Joana is also co-Chair of the Climate Accountability working group of the Climate Social Science Network .
Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Dr. Judy Regensteiner is the director of the Ludeman Family Center for Women's Health Research and distinguished professor of medicine in the divisions of internal medicine and cardiology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She holds the Judith & Joseph Wagner Chair in Women's Health Research. Dr. Regensteiner's research expertise is in the cardiovascular effects of diabetes with a specific focus on women with type 2 diabetes since they appear to have more significant abnormalities than men with diabetes. Her lab has been funded for over 30 years and she has authored more than 180 research publications. She is also known for her research on peripheral arterial disease. Dr. Regensteiner is currently principal investigator for the National Institutes of Health's Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) grant and a grant funded by the NIH on sex differences in the cardiovascular consequences of type 2 diabetes. She just completed her second full term on the NIH's Advisory Committee on Research on Women's Health. As co-founder and director of the Ludeman Center at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Dr. Regensteiner leads an interdisciplinary team of MD and PhD researchers who focus on women's health and sex differences research
Professor of Law, Loyola Law School Los Angeles A nationally recognized scholar of constitutional law and the law of democracy, Professor Justin Levitt has returned to Loyola after serving from 2021-22 as the White House's first Senior Policy Advisor for Democracy and Voting Rights. There, within a team devoted to racial justice and equity, Levitt assisted the President in his efforts to make sure that every eligible American has secure, reliable access to a meaningful vote; to provide equitable representation in government; to restore trust in a democracy deserving of that trust; and to bolster avenues by which Americans build community and engage in civic participation. Levitt had previously served in federal government as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. At DOJ, he primarily supported the Civil Rights Division’s work on voting rights and protections against employment discrimination (including federal statutory protections against workplace discrimination based on race, ethnicity, sex -- including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity -- religion, national origin, citizenship status, and military service). Levitt has published in the flagship law reviews at Harvard, Columbia, NYU, Georgetown, and William & Mary, the peer-reviewed Election Law Journal, and the flagship online law journals at Yale and NYU, among others. He has served as a visiting faculty member at the Yale Law School, UCLA School of Law, USC's Gould School of Law, and at Caltech. He was Loyola's Associate Dean for Research from 2017-20, and was honored to receive Loyola's Excellence in Teaching Award in 2013-14, 2019-20, and 2023-24. He became an elected member of the American Law Institute in 2024. Levitt has been invited to testify before committees of the U.S. House and Senate, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, several state legislative bodies, and both federal and state courts. His research has been cited extensively in the media and the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He maintains the website All About Redistricting, tracking the process of state and federal redistricting around the country, including litigation. Levitt served in various capacities for several presidential campaigns, including as the National Voter Protection Counsel in 2008, helping to run an effort ensuring that tens of millions of citizens could vote and have those votes counted. Before joining the faculty of Loyola Law School, he was counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, for five years. He also worked as in-house counsel to the country's largest independent voter registration and engagement operation, and at several nonprofit civil rights and civil liberties organizations. At Loyola, Levitt established the Practitioner Moot Program, a complimentary service to the community allowing attorneys with pending appellate matters to practice their arguments before faculty experts and experienced advocates. Under the program, Loyola has hosted recent moots for cases later argued in the Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit, the California Supreme Court, and the California Courts of Appeal, among others. Levitt served as a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He holds a law degree and a masters degree in public administration from Harvard University, and was an articles editor for the Harvard Law Review. He is admitted to the bar in California, New York, and the District of Columbia, and to the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Fourth Circuit, Ninth Circuit, and Eleventh Circuit, and the U.S. District Court in the Central District of California.
Lead, Greening Finance for Nature, Global Finance and Economy Group, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford Dr Alvarez is based at the Environmental Change Institute (University of Oxford) where she leads the Global Finance & Economy Group's workstream on Greening Finance for Nature and the work on scenarios as part of the Oxford Martin School Programme on Systemic Resilience. She is a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Nexus Assessment on finance and worked as an expert on the Nature Task Force of the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS). She is also a Lillian Goldman Junior Research Fellow at Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford. Alvarez brings 19 years' experience spanning from engineering, climate change, nature-based solutions, modelling, economics and finance across academia, industry and nonprofit in Latin America, Europe and the United States. She started her career advising the C-suite in strategic corporate planning in an Italian-Argentine holding group. Her research skills comprise quantitative risk analysis, systems analysis and economic/financial analysis. Alvarez holds a degree in Industrial Engineering (BEng and MEng equivalent) from the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Management from Lancaster University.
PhD Candidate in Circular Business Models, University of Adelaide Jack is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Adelaide, CSIRO, and the End Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre. He is researching the motivators, barriers, and enablers of circular business models, with a particular focus on the Australian dairy sector. With international experiences, Jack’s research interests relate to sustainable and inclusive agricultural value chains and understanding how we can solve the wicked problems facing society. Jack holds active roles in the Landcare Association of South Australia (LASA) and the Crawford Fund, and has previously been heavily involved with Researchers in Agriculture for International Development (RAID) and the Ag Institute of Australia (AIA).
Assistant Professor of Immunology and Computational & Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh We are a computational systems immunology lab. Our research focuses on the development and use of novel systems approaches to analyze high-dimensional immunological datasets, and elucidate molecular mechanisms of immunological disorders. Our past work has utilized systems approaches to analyze Mendelian mutations in the context of three-dimensional protein-protein interaction networks, to understand molecular mechanisms of corresponding disorders. We have also developed network analyses frameworks to characterize the evolutionary dynamics of these protein networks. Another key dimension of our past work has been the use of statistical and machine-learning approaches for the analyses of high-dimensional antibody-omic to elucidate correlates of vaccine-mediated and natural immunity in HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. We are currently working on using network systems and functional genomic approaches to perform multi-scale integration of genomic and epigenomic datasets with biological networks to identify molecular phenotypes underlying these immunological disorders, with an emphasis on autoimmune and alloimmune diseases. We also use high-dimensional statistical and machine-learning techniques to integrate multi-omic datasets (genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic and antibody-omic) and elucidate molecular mechanisms of immune regulation and dysregulation.
