Director, Australian Literacy Clinic, Australian Catholic University Professor Saskia Kohnen is the Director of the Australian Literacy Clinic at ACU where she works with an interdisciplinary team of (neuro)psychologists, speech-language pathologists and teachers. The clinic conducts literacy assessments and interventions and provides input into ACU's teacher training programs and professional development. Saskia's current research interests include the assessment of the underlying causes of reading and spelling difficulties in children and adolescents; conducting intervention trials for children and adults with developmental and acquired reading and spelling difficulties; and the investigation of more typical reading and spelling acquisition.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Canada. My research is to improve the safe use of strong medicines, called opioids, before and after surgery. I have over ten peer-reviewed publications on this topic area. I am the immediate past Chair of the Pain Management Leadership Committee of the Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia, the peak professional body presenting hospital pharmacists in Australia.
Research Fellow, La Trobe University Stephanie Lusby is a researcher and development practitioner. Her research focuses on gender and social change in the Pacific.
Professor of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania Stephen Avery, Ph.D. is a Professor of Radiation Oncology at Penn Medicine and director for the Global Health Catalyst. Dr. Avery is Director of the Masters and Post-Graduate Certificate programs in Medical Physics located in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on quality assurance and safety in proton therapy treatment delivery, treatment planning techniques and dosimetry of irradiators used in radiation biology research. Dr Avery actively supports diversity and inclusion initiatives within radiation oncology and develops strategies with middle to low-income countries to address the future of cancer treatment and research.
Policy Leader Fellow, Florence School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute Shamira Ahmed is a policy leader fellow at the European University Institute's Florence School of Transnational Governance, where her research focuses on human-centered sustainable digital transformation, frontier technologies and structural change, ethical innovation, responsible artificial intelligence (AI) governance, and intersectional inequalities. As executive director of the Data Economy Policy Hub (DepHUB), the first independent think tank founded by an indigenous African woman in South Africa (SA), and founder of the Artificial Intelligence for Circularity Exchange (AI4CE), Shamira is a pioneering figure in advancing transnational policy discourse on sustainable digital transformation in SA. Shamira's participation as a founding partner of the South African AI Association (SAAIA) and global chair of the Digital for Development (D4D) Hub Civil Society & Academia Advisory Group (CSAAG) stands as a testament to her commitment to advancing inclusive transnational policy discourse in the digital age and addressing pressing global challenges through interdisciplinary approaches. With a background as a policy entrepreneur and quantitative economist, she has led numerous multinational policy-oriented research projects and contributed significantly to publications such as the African Union Commission's "Data Policy Framework" and the Global Partnership on AI's Report "Towards Real Diversity and Gender Equality in Artificial Intelligence", to name a few.
