Director, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto Peter Loewen is the Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and the Robert Vipond Distinguished Professor in Democracy with the Department of Political Science. Professor Loewen teaches in the Department of Political Science and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. He is the Director of PEARL, Associate Director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute, a Senior Fellow at Massey College, and a Fellow with the Public Policy Forum. Professor Loewen received his B.A. from Mount Allison University (2002) and his PhD from l’Université de Montréal (2008). He held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of British Columbia and the University of California at San Diego. Since joining the University of Toronto Mississauga in 2010, he has held visiting positions at the Melbourne School of Government at the University of Melbourne, the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. From 2016 to 2018, Professor Loewen was the Director of the School of Public Policy & Governance until it was amalgamated with the Munk School of Global Affairs to create the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. Professor Loewen’s work has been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Medicine, Nature Human Behaviour, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, Transactions of the Royal Society B, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and other journals. He has edited four books and is a regular contributor to the media, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Globe & Mail, Toronto Star and National Post. He grew up in North Bay, Ontario and now lives in Toronto with his wife, Yvette, and two children.
Professor of Sociology; Director, Master of Science in Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Michigan-Dearborn From 1992 until 2000, I was a public health field worker, specializing in tuberculosis control, first in New York City and then in Chicago. I earned my PhD from Loyola University Chicago in 2001, and wrote my first book based on my dissertation field work, Consumed in the City: Observing Tuberculosis at Century’s End (Temple University Press, 2004). At UM-Dearborn, I teach a variety of classes, including Medical Sociology, Urban Sociology, Sociological Theory, Deviant Behavior, Restorative Justice and Inside-Out Prison Exchange. I have published numerous articles on substance abuse, from crack cocaine in small towns in Ohio to heroin in the city of Detroit, and on urban green space. Lately I have been spending a lot of time in alleys.
Associate Professor, School of Economics and Finance, University of the Witwatersrand Associate Professor Philip Kofi Adom holds a PhD in economics from the Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences. His research interest is in energy and environmental economics. This includes energy finance, demand and supply modelling, pricing modelling, energy transitions, energy efficiency, energy poverty, renewable energy, economics of wastewater and environmental pollution, climate change economics, and water use efficiency.
Chair Professor of Electrical Power Systems, The University of Melbourne Pierluigi Mancarella is the Chair Professor of Electrical Power Systems at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Professor of Smart Energy Systems at the University of Manchester, UK. His key research interests include techno-economic modelling and analysis of multi-energy systems, grid integration of renewables and distributed energy resources, energy infrastructure planning under uncertainty, and security, reliability, and resilience of low-carbon networks.
Professor, School of Psychology, University of Adelaide Professor Peter Strelan is Head of the School of Psychology at The University of Adelaide. His research interest is predominantly on forgiveness, with a specific focus on the relation between justice and forgiveness.
Senior Research Fellow, CAEEPR, Griffith University Dr Phillip Wild has a PhD from the University of Queensland specialising in the field of macro-economic modelling. His main area of research since 2009 has been in Energy Economics with a particular focus on wholesale electricity market modelling of the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM), integration of variable renewables (e.g. wind, solar PV, hybrid gas-solar thermal), levelized cost modelling, the role that renewable hydrogen might play in decarbonisation pathways and network balancing, energy policy issues linked to these research topics, agent based modelling and econometric modelling of National Energy Market (NEM) spot price and load time series data.
