Professor of the Practice in International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame Dr. Josefina Echavarría Alvarez is Professor of the Practice and the director of the Peace Accords Matrix (PAM) program at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs. Josefina is also a faculty fellow of the Pulte Institute for Global Development and serves as a faculty advisor for the Afghanistan Program for Peace and Development program at the University of Notre Dame. As the director of PAM, she leads the Barometer Initiative in Colombia, which carries out official monitoring of implementation of the 2016 Final Agreement between the government and the former FARC-EP. Josefina also directs the Legacy Project for “Preserving and Engaging the Digital Archive of the Colombian Truth Commission", which guarantees continued access to more than 200,000 files including audiovisual, non-textual knowledge and digitized documents compiled by the Colombian Truth Commission about the country’s 52-year armed conflict to advance transitional justice, human rights and the centrality of victims. She was previously co-director of the Research Center for Peace and Conflict at the University of Innsbruck and a Fellow at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) and Trinity College (Ireland). She has been a guest lecturer at numerous universities around the world on peacebuilding, peace education, gender, conflict analysis, and research methods. She has also managed diverse international cooperation projects in the fields of gender, citizenship, and curricular development for peace and conflict studies. Josefina earned her Ph.D. in Peace, Conflict, and Democracy from the Jaume I University (Spain), an M.A. in Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation from the University of Innsbruck (Austria), and a B.A. in Government and International Relations from the University Externado (Colombia).
Professor, Law School, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Professor Jodi Gardner is the Brian Coote Chair in Private Law at the University of Auckland. Her research focuses on the relationship between the private law and social policy. She analyses how the private law interacts with social welfare, including the limitations of doctrinal law in responding to the challenges posed by poverty and inequality. Professor Gardner's research has covered topics including inequality in contract law, vulnerability in tort law, high-cost credit agreements, the impact of austerity measures, debt collection contracts, the effect of technological developments on equality and financial exclusion, and concurrent liability in tort and contract.
Associate Professor and Veterinarian, Colorado State University Jason Lombard, DVM, grew up in Colorado and spent his early years on his family’s cattle ranch. After obtaining his DVM from Colorado State University, he practiced primarily dairy cattle medicine in Wisconsin for almost 10 years. He returned to CSU and completed a master’s degree in epidemiology while working for USDA’s National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS). He coordinated multiple national studies, primarily focused on the dairy industry. While with USDA, he also participated on an Incident Management Team and was deployed for multiple cattle and poultry diseases during his 20-year federal career. Lombard’s research interests include infectious disease epidemiology and population health, with a focus on cattle diseases. His most recent work has involved investigating bovine tuberculosis outbreaks and bovine leukemia virus-associated lymphosarcoma in beef and dairy cattle. These disease investigations and research have taken a One Health approach with collaboration with public health officials and infectious disease physicians. Dr. Lombard believes the first step toward livestock sustainability is disease prevention and having healthy and productive animals.
Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne I am a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne. My research focuses on empirically studying the causes and consequences of risky behaviours. I use both survey data and administrative data in seeking to better understand people's behaviours, and the impact that policy has on behaviours. I am particularly interested in evaluating the impact of policy on decisions about substance use and crime, as well as understanding how these decisions affect other areas of life, including mental health, work, and schooling.
Assistant Dean (Sustainability), The University of Melbourne Dr. James Helal specializes in life cycle assessment, computational design, and structural optimization of buildings. As Assistant Dean (Sustainability) of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, he is committed to enhancing and realizing the strategic direction and sustainability agenda for the faculty. This involves embedding sustainability into research, teaching, learning, culture, and organizational life. Dr. Helal's research centres on the development of innovative software tools and computer models that integrate embodied carbon assessment into the early-stage structural design of tall buildings. His work has been acknowledged internationally by the Institution of Structural Engineers, receiving the Structures Best Research into Practice prize. As a Lecturer in Sustainable Structural Design, he teaches in the areas of materials, structures, and life cycle assessment of the built environment. His dedication to teaching excellence has been widely celebrated, with awards including the Open Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, and the esteemed Edward Brown Award for Teaching Excellence from the University of Melbourne. Through his leadership, research, and teaching, Dr. James Helal contributes significantly to the ongoing development of sustainable design practices in the built environment.
Associate Senior Lecturer, Division of Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy, Lund University Red blood cell and gene therapy researcher at Lund Stem Cell Center, Lund University, Sweden.
