Lecturer in Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetic, University of Limpopo Ms. Makoma Bopape is a lecturer at the University of Limpopo, Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. She is a dietitian by profession and has passion in child nutrition. She also has interest in obesity prevention. She is a registered PhD at the University of the Western Cape, School of Public Health and is engaged in an obesity prevention project.
Professor of History, University of Winnipeg I am Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous People, History and Archives at the University of Winnipeg and a band member of the Munsee Delaware Nation. I am part of the editorial board member of ShekonNeechie: An Indigenous History Site (https://shekonneechie.ca), and member of the Munsee Delaware Language and History Group. I research modern Indigenous histories especially in the areas of education, health and labour.
Professor of Space Environment Physics, University of Reading Mike Lockwood is a Professor of space environment physics at the University of Reading. After completing his PhD in ionospheric physics at Exeter University, UK, he studied the aurora using the EISCAT radars in northern Scandinavia and a wide variety of ESA and NASA speacecraft. He has also investigated space weather effects on humankind's operation systems and the effects of radiation on humans in space. He has determined the long-term variability of the Sun and helped define the implications for space weather and its relevance to Earth's tropospheric climate.
Lecturer in law, Royal Holloway University of London Malak holds a Bachelor degree in Law from Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris, France), an LLM in Human rights law from Queen Mary University of London and an MSc in Global Migration from University College London (UCL). Prior to her doctrinal research, Malak worked for several NGOs and international organisations, including for the United Nations in Vienna, Doctors Without Borders in Brussels, and the AIRE Centre in London. Malak is now a Lecturer in Law at Royal Holloway University of London. She specialises in the areas of human rights law, refugee law, statelessness, Palestinians, and Kurds. Her research and teaching relies on a decolonial and intersectional methodology that includes critical race theory.
Professor of Engineering, University at Buffalo Michel Bruneau is a SUNY Distinguished Professor and author of the book "The Blessings of Disaster: The Lessons That Catastrophes Teach Us and Why Our Future Depends on It". He is recognized for the impact of his research contributions to the design and behavior of structures subjected to extreme events, and in particular earthquakes. He is one of the most cited researchers in these fields. He is the lead author of the seminar 2003 paper that formulated the concept and expression of disaster resilience in a manner that has since driven research in this field. He has participated in various expert peer review panels, project advisory committees, and special project design teams. He is a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and – most significantly – Emeritus Director of a National Science Foundation’s national engineering research center focused on preventing disasters from extreme events. He has worked for more than three decades as part of multidisciplinary teams advancing the goal of disaster resilience and has received more than 20 prestigious awards for this innovative work, including a lifetime achievement award.
