Universityof Hohenheim Regina Birner is Chair of Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development at the University of Hohenheim, Germany. Her research focuses on the political economy of agricultural policy processes and on the role of governance and institutions in agricultural development, with a focus on smallholder farming. Regina Birner is a member of the Advisory Council on Agricultural Policy of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) and a member of the Advisory Council on Bioeconomy. She has been consulting with international organizations, including the World Bank, FAO and IFAD.
Emeritus professor, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Duke University Ralph L. Keeney is Professor Emeritus at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and throughout his career has been a professor and consultant on making important decisions for policy-makers, businesses, and individuals. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and has authored or co-authored several highly successful books.
Adjunct Professor, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia Robin leads research projects and workshops for Canadian and US government agencies, First Nations, and Industry on improving decision-making skills, addressing difficult tradeoffs, and meaningfully involving citizens in public policy decisions.
Lecturer in General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University Robyn Berghoff (Stellenbosch University) is a psycholinguist interested in language acquisition as well as bilingual language representation and processing. She is currently leading a project investigating morphosyntactic representation and processing in second language learners of isiXhosa.
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Data Science, Purdue University I'm an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Data Science at Purdue University, with lots of other connections that reflect the interdisciplinary nature of my research. I am also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics at Indiana University School of Medicine. Before coming to Purdue, I did my PhD at the University of Colorado Boulder and my postdoc at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. My main research interest is in sociogenomics, which lies at the intersection of sociology, demography, and statistical & computational genetics. I am interested in how social forces and environments interact with genetics (gene-by-environment interactions). Using recent advances in genetic data collection and methodological developments in statistical genetics, I leverage large-scale genetic data to explore how sociological outcomes change across context, across time, and across outcome measurement. I am also deeply dedicated to clearly and sensitively communicating the findings from my work in an ethically-engaged and community-based fashion. My work outside of social science genetics focuses on population health, health disparities, and quasi-experimental designs and methodologies.
Associate Professor (Prosthodontics) Melbourne Dental School, The University of Melbourne Roy is an Associate Professor at the Melbourne Dental School. His current roles at the school include. • Head of Prosthodontics • Director of International Roy has spoken throughout Australia and overseas in regard to provision of implant dentistry, implant complications and the mechanical properties of bone around implants and teeth. His PhD was related to this research topic and has flowed on to several research projects carried out by graduate diploma, DCD, MPhil, MSc and PhD students. Roy is the chief investigator for the practice-based research project entitled “Implant Complications in Practice”. This research project has gained support from external societies namely the Australian Prosthodontic Society, The Australian Osseointegration Society and the Australian Periodontal Society. Several papers have been from this research project in national and international peer revived papers. Roy is the research lead for the new dental implant being developed at the University of Melbourne. Roy maintains a part time specialist referral practice in Moonee Ponds which encompasses all aspects of Prosthodontics.
