Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg Dr Cristiano d’Orsi is a Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg. Cristiano is an Italian citizen and a South African permanent resident. He was previously a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria in South Africa. He holds a PhD in International Relations (International Law) from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. His research interests include the legal protection of asylum-seekers, refugees, migrants and internally displaced persons in Africa, African human rights law, and, more broadly, the development of international law in Africa. Cristiano currently lectures in these areas and he regularly delivers presentations at international conferences. Cristiano is the author of about 30 articles and chapters in books (in English and French), and of a monograph: “Asylum-Seeker and Refugee Protection in sub-Saharan Africa: the Peregrination of a Persecuted Human Being in Search of a Safe Haven” (London/New York: Routledge, 2015).
Associate Professor of Education Policy, Southern Methodist University Meredith P. Richards is an associate professor of Education Policy at Southern Methodist University. Her research focuses on exploring the effects of educational policies on equity and stratification in schools and situating policies in their metropolitan and geographic contexts.
Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, Texas A&M University-Commerce Sarah Guthery is an assistant professor in Curriculum and Instruction at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Her research focuses on the influence of educational policy and the educator labor market. She primarily investigates the production, retention and promotion of teachers and principals. She currently teaches undergraduate and graduate classes leading to teacher certification and educational leadership. She earned her Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University with an emphasis in educational quantitative research. She has served on Texas State advisory boards for educator preparation data and educator preparation assessment.
Executive Director, Leonard and Shirley Goldstein Center for Human Rights, University of Nebraska Omaha I am an Associate Professor of Religious Studies.
Professor of Environmental and Energy Policy, Indiana University Professor Kerry Krutilla is a specialist in the theory and practice of benefit cost analysis. He is currently coauthoring a book on the economic evaluation of air pollution, energy, and climate regulations. Another project is assessing ways to represent distributional accounting formats in benefit-cost analysis. Professor Krutilla recently conducted research on the principles of efficient cybersecurity investment, and completed a study on uncertainty evaluation methods relevant for benefit-cost analyses used to evaluate seabed mining leases. Professor Krutilla has served as an economic consultant for a variety of international and environmental organizations, including the World Bank and the Environmental Defense Fund, and for U.S. federal agencies such as the Agency for International Development and the U.S. Departments of Energy and Agriculture. He has consulted for the Brazilian Ministry of Transportation and the Chamber of Deputies of the Brazilian National Congress, and for the Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Development, the Finance Committee of the National Assembly, and the City Council of Hanoi. Professor Krutilla teaches benefit-cost analysis in several formats. He has conducted executive trainings at the World Bank, the Escola National de Administração Pública in Brasilia, the Vietnamese National Academy of Public Administration in Ho Chi Minh City, and offered executive training courses in Hanoi under the sponsorship of the Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Development. He has taught short course at Vietnam National University in Hanoi and the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. From 2012-2014, Professor Krutilla co-directed a summer overseas study program jointly offered by the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and two universities in Pamplona Spain. At the O’Neill School, Professor Krutilla offers graduate and undergraduate courses in benefit-cost analysis and environmental economics.
