Contributors

Lynzi Armstrong

Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington

Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Dr Lynzi Armstrong is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her research interests include sex worker rights, sex work laws, stigma, sexual violence, anti-trafficking policy, and social harm.

Linda Yueh

Fellow in Economics/Adjunct Professor of Economics, University of Oxford

Fellow in Economics/Adjunct Professor of Economics, University of Oxford Dr. Linda Yueh is Fellow in Economics at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, Adjunct Professor of Economics at London Business School, and Visiting Professor of Economics at Peking University. She is a broadcaster, including for BBC Radio 4, and was the BBC’s Chief Business Correspondent and host of “Talking Business with Linda Yueh”, as well as Economics Editor for Bloomberg TV. Dr. Yueh is Director of the China Growth Centre at Oxford, a member of the Policy Committee of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics and Political Science, an Advisory Board member of The Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), and a Trustee of the Coutts Foundation. She has advised the World Bank, European Commission, Asian Development Bank, World Economic Forum, among many others. She has been a Non-Executive Director of several FTSE companies, an advisor to the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), and served on the Board of London & Partners, the official promotion agency for London. She is widely published in academic journals and is the editor of the Economic Growth and Development book series at Routledge. Her books include: Macroeconomics (co-authored with Graeme Chamberlin) (2006), Globalisation and Economic Growth in China (co-edited with Yang Yao) (2006), The Law and Economics of Globalisation: New Challenges for a World in Flux (editor) (2009), The Future of Asian Trade and Growth: Economic Development with the Emergence of China (editor) (2009), Enterprising China: Business, Economics and Legal Developments Since 1979 (2011), the award-winning The Economy of China (2010, paperback in 2012), and China’s Growth: The Making of an Economic Superpower (2013) to be published in Chinese in 2015. Her latest book, China’s Macroeconomic Policy, was published in March 2015.

Lisa Seymour

Professor, University of Cape Town

Professor, University of Cape Town Lisa Seymour, Professor in the Department of Information Systems (IS) at the University of Cape Town, researches and teaches in the areas of business processes, enterprise systems and IS education; with particular emphasis on regional development in Southern Africa. Her area includes studying how organisations, particularly within the SME and public sector in Africa, can derive benefit from their business processes and enterprise systems. She is also interested in solving educational challenges in this space and in working collaboratively on these challenges. She is director of CITANDA (Centre for IT and National Development in Africa), on the executive of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists (SAICSIT), principal researcher for ESEFA (Enterprise Systems Education for Africa) and chair of the SAP African Academic Board.

Laurie Laybourn

Visiting Fellow, Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter

Visiting Fellow, Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter Laurie Laybourn is an award-winning policy researcher, author, and strategist. He is executive director of the Strategic Climate Risks Initiative (SCRI), a think-and-do tank that helps develop capabilities for securing a better world even as the environmental crisis escalates. He is an associate fellow at Chatham House, a visiting fellow at the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter, and an associate fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). He is a trustee of the New Economics Foundation (NEF) and sits on the board of the Economic Change Unit, an organisation he founded. Previously, he was Director of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change and has worked at the LSE, Oxford University, and the UK Parliament. Laurie regularly appears on television, radio, and in print. He is co-author of Planet on Fire: A manifesto for the age of environmental breakdown (Verso 2021).

Luc-André Brunet

Senior Lecturer in Contemporary International History, The Open University

Senior Lecturer in Contemporary International History, The Open University Luc-André Brunet is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary International History at The Open University in the UK and Co-Director of the Peace and Security Project at LSE IDEAS. His research focuses on the dynamics between peace and anti-nuclear activism, on the one hand, and policymaking and diplomacy, on the other. He is Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded project ‘Global Histories of Peace and Anti-Nuclear Activism’ and is currently completing a book on Canada, the global nuclear order and the end of the Cold War. He is editor of NATO and the Strategic Defence Initiative: A Transatlantic History of the Star Wars Programme and (with Eirini Karamouzi) the forthcoming volume Beyond the Euromissile Crisis: Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear Activism. He also co-edits a new book series with McGill-Queen’s University Press on Global Nuclear Histories.

Laura Brettell

University Fellow, School of Science, Engineering & Environment, University of Salford

University Fellow, School of Science, Engineering & Environment, University of Salford I started my academic career at the University of Sheffield (2010-2012) where I researched the relationship between honey bees, parasitic Varroa mites and deformed wing virus. After a brief stint researching speciation in periwinkles at the University of Sheffield (2013-2014), I returned to insects with a PhD here at the University of Salford (2014-2017). Here I researched the effects of deformed wing virus on honey bees and virus spillover from honey bees to other insects. I then moved to Australia for a postdoc position at Western Sydney University (2017-2021) where I researched pollinator health in commercial apple and cherry orchards. I then took up a second postdoc position at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (2021-2023) where I worked on mosquito-microbiome interactions before returning to the University of Salford as a University Fellow in 2023. I am fascinated by the ecology and evolution of arthropod-associated viruses, in particular; the interplay between the ecology of the host(s), the host-virus interactions and the interactions among viruses and other microbes. These topics allow me to explore diverse systems, from understanding mosquito-virome/microbiome interactions and how these may be exploited to combat mosquito-borne pathogens and how global change is affecting vector-borne disease, to understanding honey bee disease relevant for the apiculture and honey industries, and studying pollinator health to conserve biodiversity and secure sustainable pollination in the face of global change.