Assistant Professor of Teaching and Leadership, University of North Dakota Dr. Link is the co-author of Cornerstones of Strong Schools: Practices for Purposeful Leadership and author of several articles, book chapters, and professional papers on school leaders, grading, and classroom assessments. She currently serves as an assistant professor and Graduate Director of the Master of Science in Teaching & Leadership program at the University of North Dakota and has won many awards for her community engagement. Dr. Link served as Associate Dean of the College of Public Service at the University of Houston-Downtown and in various K-12 central office and school-based leadership roles such as Chief Academic Officer, Chief Talent Management Officer, Assistant Superintendent, Professional Development Director, and more. She has taught elementary, middle, high school and college students in her 32 years in the education profession. While Dr. Link was Assistant Superintendent of Teaching & Learning in Memphis, TN, she was 1 of 7 administrators charged with leading the largest school district merger in United States’ history.
Visiting Professor, City, University of London Lee White is an Organisational Psychologist with over 25 years of experience as a consultant. His focus is on the creative application of psychological research and techniques to help individuals, teams and organisations. He consults, coaches and teaches with clients from different industry sectors around the world. Lee is a Health Professions Council Registered Occupational Psychologist in the UK, a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. In addition to his consultancy work, he is a Honorary Research Fellow at City, University of London and visiting faculty at INSEAD business school. He has a first degree in Psychology with an MSc in Occupational Psychology from Cardiff and MSc in Research Methods from Swansea. He also has a PhD in Psychology form Swansea University. In research he is working on a number of projects including looking at how collective emotions influence the execution of organisations’ strategic initiatives, modelling constructive cognitive processes in decision making and investigating the psychology of change and organisational decision making. Lee has published research in journals such as Cognition, the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney Dr Lucy Lu spent 20 years in the NSW Department of Education leading multidisciplinary teams responsible for large-scale data collections, reporting, data policy and standards, and statistical and psychometric analysis to enhance decision-making. Lucy has also led multiple research projects in areas of practice, measurement and funding modelling, including expanding the evidence base to support the NSW Department’s resource allocation model and School Excellence Framework.
Adjunct associate, Universitas Indonesia Lucentezza Napitupulu teaches environmental economics at the Department of Economics, Universitas Indonesia. She focuses her current research on nature's contribution to human wellbeing, in food systems, fisheries, land use policy in Indonesia, toward equitable and sustainable development.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Calgary Dr. Laura Hambley is an Organizational Psychologist, Keynote Speaker, Business Leader, Author and Podcast Host. She is a sought-after thought leader on workplace psychology and career development in Canada, with 22+ years of experience providing organizational consulting and developing leaders in Canada and internationally. Dr. Laura is a thought leader on the evolution of work and understands the intersection of business and people. Dr. Laura’s areas of expertise include leadership, team, and culture development in organizations, remote/hybrid workplace success, and mental health/developing resiliency through turbulent times. She holds a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Calgary, where she is currently an Adjunct Professor. Her research on remote leadership and team effectiveness was recognized for a decade before the pandemic, and has helped countless organizations adapt to hybrid workplaces. As a passionate entrepreneur, Dr. Laura has founded several psychology practices in Canada since 2009, including Work EvOHlution™, Canada Career Counselling, Calgary Career Counselling, and Synthesis Psychology. She runs the podcast Where Work Meets LifeTM, where she interviews global experts on a variety of topics around wellness, career, and culture.
Professor of Biological Sciences and of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University The major focus of the Zwiebel laboratory is the characterization of specific genes and their products that control important behavioral processes in the life cycle of insects that act as disease vectors, particularly host (i.e. blood-meal source) seeking/selection in the mosquito Anopheles gambiae, the principal vector for malaria in Africa. Malaria is caused by a protozoan parasite of the genus Plasmodium that is transmitted to humans through blood feeding by female Anopheline mosquitoes. In this context, the Zwiebel lab is examining the molecular events of olfaction, as this sense predominates the overall host preference and other essential behaviors in mosquitoes and other insects. This aspect of the mosquito’s behavior is especially important as it makes a significant contribution to the vectorial capacity of this arthropod vector, as well as playing a similar role in the overall impact of many other insects of economic importance.
