External Lecturer of Economics, University of Copenhagen My research and teaching relates to taxation, development and inequality. I hold a PhD in economics from the University of Copenhagen. Currently I work as Head of Secretariat at the Danish Ministry of Finance (writing for the Conversation in my own capacity). Prior to that I was a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at UC Berkeley. I have also worked as a consultant to the Boston Consulting Group and IMF. Finally, I am the founder of Economists Without Borders.
Professor of Climate Science, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading I'm a climate scientist at the University of Reading. I'm researching how climate change might affect storms. I am also research scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science.
Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London I am a sociologist in a business school studying how social class affects access to the elite professions, and subsequent career progression. I have recently published a book called: Highly Discriminating: Why the City isn't Fair and Diversity doesn't Work. This explores how the City of London has deployed a meritocratic narrative to obscure highly exclusive recruitment and promotion practices, from which it benefits. It also explains how diversity interventions do not work as their primary function is to preserve the unequal status quo.
Professor of Rural Sociology and Science, Technology, and Society, Penn State My teaching and research program is in agriculture and natural resources. Within that more general program, I have three areas of emphasis: 1) social and environmental impacts of agricultural science and technologies, 2) the role of science and technology in agricultural and natural resource policy making, and 3) the social and ethical implications of democratizing science and technology research. Although I do not have a formal extension appointment, I consider it the responsibility of rural sociologists to participate in outreach activities. One of my most significant outreach activities has been my service as a member on the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Task Force on Faith and Genetics.
Doctoral Student in International Relations, The Fletcher School, Tufts University Laura Jones is an Air Force special operations pilot currently serving as a PhD student at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Prior to beginning the PhD program, Laura served as a CV-22B Osprey instructor pilot and a first assignment instructor pilot in the T-6A Texan II. She has led a RAND Corporation research team, provided translation support to the Office of Defense Cooperation at the U.S Embassy in Paris, France, and deployed to East Africa as a liaison officer to the French Air Force. In addition to military duties, she is a member of the Irregular Warfare Initiative and sits on the board of directors where she oversees production of the Irregular Warfare Podcast. Laura is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy (2011) where she received a B.S. in Regional Area Studies and a French minor and holds an M.A. in Military History from American Military University. She is a non-resident Fellow at the Joint Special Operations University, a National Defense University, Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction Fellow, and a 2021 Pat Tillman Foundation Scholar.
Practice Professor of Architecture, Monash University Louise Wright (PhD) is a Director of Baracco+Wright Architects in Melbourne, Australia and Practice Professor of Architecture in the Faculty of Art Design and Architecture at Monash University. She is interested in a role for architecture that can extend its relationship with the natural world towards one that supports all life and explores this through in her architecture office and practice-based research in the Urban Architecture Lab research unit under the theme Buildings & Living Things. Since 2019 she has sat on the Design Review Panel of the Office of the Victorian Government Architect and was recently appointed as an ‘expert’ member on the City of Melbourne Design Review Panel. In 2022 she was made a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects. In 2017, Louise was appointed in the role of Creative Director by the Australian Institute of Architects with Mauro Baracco in collaboration with Linda Tegg, of the Australian Pavilion at the 16th International Venice Biennale di Architettura 2018, with the theme Repair, which sought to explore the role of architecture in the repair of the natural environment. In 2019 they were invited by Paola Antonelli to exhibit in Broken Nature at the Triennale di Milano and together they are the guest editors for the recent issue of Antennae: The Journal of Art and Nature with an issue titled Spaces for Species around architecture and nature. Founded in 2004 with Mauro Baracco, Baracco+Wright Architects are a small experimental architectural practice. Their work sits between academia, practice and multiple creative fields such as art and landscape architecture. They approach projects by thinking through a whole of world view where a building may not necessarily be the solution, placing value on the very occupation of land. PhD Architecture (RMIT) 2012 Registered Architect Bachelor Architecture (RMIT)
