Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), University of Essex Marija Jovanović is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre. Her research focuses on modern slavery and the way this phenomenon interacts with different legal regimes, such as human rights law, criminal law, labour law, immigration law, international trade law, and business regulation. She is the author of State Responsibility for ‘Modern Slavery’ in Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2023). Marija holds DPhil, MPhil, and Magister Juris degrees from the University of Oxford, and a law degree from Serbia. She previously held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in ASEAN Law and Policy at the National University of Singapore, and worked as a Lecturer at the University of Kragujevac and University of Belgrade. Dr Jovanović is currently leading a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre, which investigates the experiences of modern slavery survivors in the UK prisons.
Director: Climate Change, Energy & Resilience, ICLEI Africa, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability Dr Meggan Spires is the Director of the Climate Change, Energy and Resilience Workstream at ICLEI Africa. The workstream she manages serves ICLEI Africa’s network of over 400 cities, towns and regions in over 25 African countries, in terms of supporting their journeys towards climate resilience. Meggan and team manage a suite of multi-year, multi-country programmes and projects in fields such as energy access, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, disaster risk reduction, coastal management and ecosystem-based adaptation. The work involves capacity building, policy development, on-the-ground implementation, and unlocking climate finance at the city-scale. She has also performed the role of principal investigator for a number of cutting-edge research into development programmes on the continent.
Profesora de la Facultad de Humanidades y CC. Comunicación Universidad CEU San Pablo, Universidad CEU San Pablo Profesora de distintas materias en el ámbito del periodismo y la comunicación, compatibiliza su trabajo en la Facultad de Humanidades y CC. Comunicación de la Universidad CEU San Pablo con el ejercicio profesional del periodismo y las conferencias sobre temas de educación y familia. Especializada en ética y teoría de la comunicación, trabaja en la necesidad de fomentar la alfabetización mediática para reducier el impacto de las nuevas tecnologías en los niños, adolescentes y jóvenes.
Doctorante en psychologie (Ph.D/D.ps), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) - Doctorante en psychologie clinique, D.ps et Ph.D. Université du Québec à Montréal - Boursière Joseph-Armand Bombardier; Boursière FRQSC - Spécialisée en traumatismes psychologiques, blessures morales, traitements d'approche cognitive-comportementale;
Associate Professor of Economic Geography, Trinity College Dublin Dr. Martin Sokol is Associate Professor of Economic Geography at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His research focuses on central banks, monetary policy and financialisation, with special interest in the way central banks respond to crises, including the pandemic, the climate emergency and growing economic inequalities. He has a PhD in Economic Geography from Newcastle University, England, UK. He is one of the founding members of the Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo) and served as its first Secretary. Between 2016 and 2022, he led the European Research Council (ERC) project on new geographies of financialisation (Grant Agreement No 683197).
