Senior Lecturer in Critical and Green Technology Metals, University of Exeter Kate Moore is a geologist at the Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, UK. She has lectured on the subject of planetary geology since 1998, and extensively researched the geological processes, from mantle source to Earth's surface, that concentrate critical metals in ore deposits. She led a project to develop responsible and adaptable, small-scale mining solutions for complex ore deposits from 2016 to 2020 (IMP@CT; H2020 grant number 740311) and has recently completed a residency in Earth Humanities (NERC Discipline Hopping for Environmental Solutions grant ‘Mining uncommon Ground’).
Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Juliana is a Research Fellow at the Sustainable Minerals Institute at The University of Queensland. Her research focuses on improving the sustainability and circularity of mining operations through innovation. Juliana is a Chemical Engineer from Universidad del Valle (Colombia); she holds a Master of Science and a PhD in Metallurgical Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Juliana worked as a Research Assistant at Imperial College London in the Horizon 2020 IMPaCT project (2019-2020) and currently holds an Honorary Research Associate position at this institution.
Research Fellow, The Parkland Institute, University of Alberta Worked at Alberta Treasury and Alberta Treasury Branches for 25 years concentrating on public debt issuance, financial sector policy and economics. Director, Institute for Public Economics at University of Alberta Economics' department from 2009-13, Have contributed opinion pieces since 2010 in Edmonton Journal and Calgary Herald. I have been published in Alberta Views (April 2020) and CBC opinion piece on the Alberta budget. Since 2018 two co-authored and one sole-authored reports for the Parkland Institute.
Professor Emeritus of Economics and BB&T Scholar, Clemson University Gerald P. Dwyer is Professor Emeritus of Economics and BB&T Scholar at Clemson University. Prior to his appointment at Clemson as a Professor and BB&T Scholar, he was the founding Director of the Center for Financial Innovation and Stability and a Vice President at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Dr. Dwyer has been a faculty member at Texas A&M University, Emory University and the University of Houston. He is a Research Associate at the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis at Australian National University and a Senior Fellow of the American Institute for Economic Research. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta, St. Louis and Minneapolis and at the University of Cambridge as well as an adjunct faculty member at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Carlos III in Madrid. Dr. Dwyer’s recent research is on financial innovation, especially digital currencies, and financial crises and regulation. His research has appeared in leading economics and finance journals, publications by the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and St. Louis, and books. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Financial Stability and Finance Research Letters. He is a past President and member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Private Enterprise Education. He also was a founding member of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, an organization which he served as President and as Treasurer and which honored him by creating the Gerald P. Dwyer Prize in Financial Econometrics.
Marie Curie postdoctoral researcher, University of Oxford I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, conducting research on Japanese organised crime (yakuza) and emerging criminal groups in Japan.
Lecturer in Media, University of East London Sophie Wood is a fashion and media academic with an interest in social media, materiality, wardrobe studies and celebrity culture. She lecturers in Media, Communication and Advertising and University of East London. She is also a lecturer in Fashion Marketing and Fashion Theory at Regent's University London. Sophie brings together a decade of professional experience in social media and marketing with her academic background in fashion and cultural theory.
