PhD Student, Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria Lorin Busaan, PhD student at the Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria, researches employee ownership under the supervision of Dr. Simon Pek. Lorin’s research is focused on the broader social and environmental impacts from involving employees in business ownership and decision-making. As a recent graduate of the MBA in Sustainable Innovation at the University of Victoria, and with considerable experience in the public (energy and environmental policy) and private sector (energy and construction), Lorin brings a strong practical and policy lens to his academic research.
Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan I am a paleoanthropologist interested in understanding the relationship between biological form and function, with research foci on primate locomotor evolution, and hominoid (ape and human) origins. Most of my field work has been conducted at 19-21 million-year-old sites in northeastern Uganda, which record evidence of the earliest known fossil apes. The arboreal habitat of primates poses unique challenges, including substrate gaps and complex and unstable supports, which have led to the evolution of diverse forms of locomotion. Although humans are terrestrial, we still bear the hallmarks of prior arboreal specializations. A major evolutionary event among our hominoid relatives was the adoption of frequent upright postures (orthogrady) and suspensory (below branch) behavior from more monkey-like branch walking. These novel behaviors opened new niches, and selected for a body with a stable lower back that was (arguably) modified for habitual upright posture and bipedality in one hominoid group, the human lineage. The investigation of the locomotor adaptations of our ape predecessors, and the nature of their behavioral transitions, which also include dietary and body size changes, is a centerpiece of my research program. In order to test hypotheses generated from paleontological studies, I also study the locomotion of wild chimpanzees in the Kibale Forest, Uganda.
Lecturer in Mental Health, School of Health and Psychological Sciences, City, University of London Lolita Alfred is a lecturer with an interest in emotional health and well-being, substance use, and employee well-being. She qualified as a registered mental health nurse in 2004, and her professional practice has been based mainly on the areas of forensic mental health, public health, and academia.
Associate Professor of Accounting, The University of Texas at Austin Lisa De Simone is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, a Public Voices Fellow of The OpEd Project, and cohost of the podcast Taxes for the Masses (available wherever you get your podcasts). Her research examining how multinational corporations and individuals respond to tax incentives worldwide has been published in top accounting and finance journals. She teaches and has taught tax and personal finance courses to students in BBA, MPA, MBA, and PhD programs. She was previously an Associate Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business from 2013 to 2020. She earned a BA in Economics and German Studies from Stanford in 2002, an MS in Accounting from the University of Missouri - Kansas City in 2008, and a PhD in Accounting from the University of Texas at Austin in 2013. Previous work experience includes transfer pricing consulting for Ernst & Young.
Doctoral researLi Tang is a doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute. Her current work investigates high-altitude adaptations of the dietary economy on the prehistoric Tibetan Plateau by the application of proteomics, isotope, and archaeobotany. cher, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Ph.D. Candidate in Oceanography, California Institute of Technology Lily is an oceanographer studying the interactions of physics and biogeochemistry in the Southern Ocean. She uses data from underwater autonomous vehicles and satellites to understand what role the ocean plays in our climate system. Her interests include how mesoscale and submesoscale dynamics, particularly in the Southern Ocean, affect the efficiency with which carbon dioxide can be transferred from the atmosphere to the deep ocean. Previously, at MIT, she worked to understand how aerosol droplets produced by sea spray could act as nucleation sites for ice clouds.
