Professor of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, Texas A&M University Walter Gillis Peacock is professor of Urban Planning in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and the Director of the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M University (TAMU) where he has been a member of the faculty since 2002. He is also working at the U.S. Census Bureau as a Research Survey Statistician, in the Social, Economic, and Housing Statistics Division, Small Area Modeling & Development, with the Community Resilience Estimation Program. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. He is internationally known for his research on disaster recovery, community resiliency, and social vulnerability. In 2009 he was awarded the Quarantelli Award for Social Science Disaster Theory, acknowledging significant theoretical work in disaster and hazards research. Between 2008 and 2012 he was the holder of the Rodney L. Dockery Endowed Professorship in Housing and the Homeless and in 2012 he was awarded the Sandy and Bryan Mitchell Master Builder Endowed Chair at Texas A&M. In 2014 he received the Distinguished Achievement Award in Research from Texas A&M, an award sponsored by the Association of Former Students. He has conducted research in Florida, Texas, California, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, the former Yugoslavia, Italy, Turkey, and India.
NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland Dr Benjamin Weger (PhD) is an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland. His research interests include circadian rhythms, metabolism, microbiota and physiology. He completed his PhD at Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany.
Professor of International Relations, Australian National University Wesley Widmaier is a Professor in the Department of International Relations in the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University College of Asia and the Pacific. His research addresses the interplay of wars, crises, and change – and the ways in which stability can cause instability, a concern that spans International Political Economy and International Security settings. In substantive terms, he has published widely on international trade and monetary policies, US foreign policy and presidential leadership, and Australian economic and foreign policies.
Professor of Practice of Gobal Governance and Development, IE University Waya Quiviger first joined IE Business School as Managing Director of the International MBA program. From 2009 to 2018, she was the Executive Director of the Master in International Relations. She is currently a Professor of Practice of Global Governance and Development and the Executive Director of the Transatlantic Relations Initiative at IE School of Global and Public Affairs. Waya is also the lead coordinator of the annual Transatlantic Conference in collaboration with Johns Hopkins SAIS, Sciences Po and Yale University. Waya Quiviger holds an M.Sc. in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics (LSE), a Master in International Management from the Ecole Des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC Paris) and a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University (CA). Prior to joining IE, Waya worked for the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland as Manager of the Global Leaders for Tomorrow (GLTs), a community of outstanding young leaders, many of them social entrepreneurs. She has also consulted for the Women’s Forum and the Club de Madrid. Ms. Quiviger teaches Global Governance & International Organizations and Aid, Development and Social Entrepreneurship in various undergraduate and graduate programs including the BIR, BBABIR, BIEBIR, the Master in International Relations, the Master in Management and Global Online MBA, as well as a sustainable business course in the Master in International Development. She also gives master classes on sustainable development and social entrepreneurship for corporate partners as well as IE alumni around the world. From 2015-2023, Waya was the sole lecturer in the annual IE Brown Summer Program in Segovia. In addition, Waya regularly appears on France 24 to comment EU and French politics and publishes in international media including Expansión and the China Daily. She is the recipient of numerous awards for outstanding teaching. Her research interests include social innovation, social entrepreneurship, sustainable development, global governance, intergovernmental institutions and international relations. Waya is a member of the Spanish Leadership Network of the Fundación Rafael del Pino.
Senior Lecturer, Business School, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Dr William K.S. Cheung is a Senior Lecturer in Property at the University of Auckland Business School. He obtained his PhD from The University of Hong Kong (HKU). His research primarily focuses on property markets, including understanding the roles governments and institutions can play in shaping sustainable housing markets. To complete his research agenda and to understand the role of urban real estate market dynamics in the context of the broader economy, he has adopted a uniquely transdisciplinary approach. The significant funding from various research grants that he garnered since his arrival at the University has assured his initial success in adopting transdisciplinary approaches to understanding the role of urban property market dynamics in the context of sustainability and well-being. The roles that he is taking in the National Science Challenges (BBHTC) and other international contestable funded-research projects empower him to contribute to government policy discourses on housing policies. Prior to his PhD study, Dr Cheung served as an economist at the HKSAR Government and worked as an assistant manager in the Asia Pacific Research Department at CBRE, a globally renowned real estate company. He is a chartered surveyor at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) and a full member of the Property Institute of New Zealand (PINZ). Having been a U.S. Fulbright scholar, Australian Endeavour fellow, Ronald Coase Institute alumnus, and having received other international accolades in recognition of his outstanding scholarship, he has been invited to be the journal editor, reviewer for international grant proposals, organise conferences, deliver invited lectures, and serve as journal editorial board member.
Chief Innovation Officer, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Pediatric Technology Center; Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Wilbur Lam received his B.A. from Rice University in 1995, his M.D. from the Baylor College of Medicine in 1999 and his Ph.D. from the University of California,San Francisco/University of California, Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering in 2008. He completed his Residency in Pediatrics from UCSF in 2002 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley from 2008-2010. Dr. Lam's research involves integrating microtechnology ,development, experimental hematology and oncology and clinical medicine. His interdisciplinary laboratory, comprising clinicians, engineers, and biologists, is dedicated to applying and developing micro/nanotechnologies to study, diagnose, and treat blood disorders, cancer, and childhood diseases. This unique "basement to bench to bedside" approach to biomedical research is enabled by our lab's dual locations at the Emory University School of Medicine and the Georgia Institute of Technology and our affiliations with the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta hospitals.
