Keynote Speakers
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Dexter Dias QC
Barrister
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Marwa Al-Sabouni
Architect & author
Marwa Al-Sabouni
Architect & author
Marwa Al-Sabouni was born in Homs, a city in the central-western part of the country, and has a PhD in Islamic Architecture. Despite the destruction of large parts of the city, she has remained in Homs with her husband and two children throughout the war. In her just-released book The Battle for Home (Thames & Hudson, 2016), she explores the role architecture and the built environment play in whether a community crumbles or comes together, and she offers insights on how her country (and a much-needed sense of identity) should be rebuilt so that it will not happen again.
Richard Wilkinson
Honorary Visiting Professor
Richard Wilkinson is Professor Emeritus of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham Medical School, Honorary Professor at University College London and Visiting Professor at the University of York. He studied economic history and the philosophy of science at the London School of Economics before training in epidemiology. He has played a formative role in international research on the social determinants of health and on the societal effects of income inequality. His books and papers have drawn attention to the tendency for societies with bigger income differences between rich and poor to have a higher prevalence of a wide range of health and social problems. He wrote The Spirit Level with Kate Pickett, a best seller now available in 24 languages, which won the 2011 Political Studies Association Publication of the Year Award and the 2010 Bristol Festival of Ideas Prize. He co-founded The Equality Trust: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better (with support from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust). He has given hundreds of conference addresses and interviews around the world, including at WHO, the EU, OECD and the World Bank.
Shirin Ebadi
Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Shirin Ebadi was the first female Peace Prize Laureate from the Islamic World (2003). She was Iran’s first female judge, served as president of the city court of Tehran from 1975 to 1979 and was the first Iranian woman to achieve Chief Justice status. After opening a legal practice, she began defending people who were being persecuted by the authorities. In the year 2000 she was imprisoned herself for having criticized her country's hierocracy. In addition to being an internationally-recognized advocate of human rights, she has also established many non-governmental organizations in Iran, including the Million Signatures Campaign, a campaign demanding an end to legal discrimination against women in Iranian law. Dr Ebadi has a doctorate in Law from Tehran University, and is a university professor. She has published over 70 articles and 13 books dedicated to various aspects of human rights, some of which have been published by UNICEF. In 2004, she was named by Forbes Magazine as one of the 100 most powerful women in the world. In January 2006, along with sister Laureate Jody Williams, Dr Ebadi took the lead in establishing the Nobel Women’s Initiative.
Susanne Baer
Justice of the First Senate
Speakers
Ahmad Al Terkawi
General Manager
Maritime Organisation for Following Up & Rescue
Dr Ahmad Al Terkawi is a pharmacist from Homs. He left Syria for Jordan in 2012, where he worked for the Qatar Red Cresent. Together with UNHCR, Doctors
Without Borders and the Syrian Women Association, he ran the Syrian Injured Therapy project and a psychological support project in Zaatari refugee
camp. In 2015 Ahmad and his family left for Europe, where his sons only just survived the sea crossing between Turkey and Greece. Settling in Sweden,
Ahmad founded the Maritime Organisation for Following Up and Rescue. Between November 2015 and April 2016, he and his organisation’s 12 volunteers
used mobile phones to help direct 35,000 refugees across the eastern Mediterranean. Ahmad's organisation continues its work today and is currently
preparing a new project which he hopes will help people around the world. Ahmad lives in Sweden with his wife and two sons, and is currently converting
his Syrian qualifications so he can practice pharmacy in Sweden.
Alessandra Mezzadri
Senior Lecturer
Alex Ruck Keene
Barrister & Visiting Lecturer
Alex Ruck Keene is an experienced barrister, writer and educator. His practice is focused on mental capacity law (broadly defined) in which he is able to provide specialist advice and representation, as well as delivering expert training for front line professionals. He also writes extensively in the field, editing and contributing to leading textbooks and (amongst many other publications) the 39 Essex Chambers Mental Capacity Law Report, the 'bible' for solicitors (and others) working in the area. He is the creator of the website www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk, providing resources and expert commentary on some of the most difficult mental capacity issues. Alex is an Honorary Research Lecturer at the University of Manchester, a Wellcome Research Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at King's College London and a Research Affiliate at the Essex Autonomy Project, University of Essex. He spent 2016 on secondment to the Law Commission as a consultant to their Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty Project.
Alex Vines
Research Director
Alexandre Kalache
President
Professor Alexandre Kalache is a specialist in age-related issues. His expertise is in the epidemiology of ageing & the life-course, inter-sectoral policy development, health promotion, old-age care, human rights and migration within the context of ageing; as well as the more general cultural complexities of the world-wide longevity revolution. He was the founder of the Epidemiology of Ageing Unit at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he also taught from 1984 to 1995. Dr Kalache has a long history of advocacy on the human rights of older persons. He is actively involved in the process toward the adoption of a United Nation’s Convention for the Rights of Older Persons. He has served as a Special Adviser to the Brazilian Secretary of Human Rights, Brazilian Mission to the UN in New York in addition to the International Alliance of NGOs for the Rights of Older Persons.
Alina Averchenkova
Principal Research Fellow
Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics
Alina Averchenkova
Principal Research Fellow
Alina Averchenkova is a Principal Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics. She is responsible for the engagement with policy and decision makers worldwide, and research on international climate change policy. Alina has extensive experience in providing advisory and capacity building services to governments, UN organisations and private sector, and in facilitating interministerial and multi-stakeholder dialogues on climate change.
András Sajó
Professor
Andras Sajo is a judge at the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg (as of 01 February 2008). He is also a University Professor at the Central European University, Budapest (and there a Founding Dean of Legal Studies), as well as Global Visiting Professor of Law at New York University Law School. A prominent constitutionalist, he is also a distinguished scholar in the human rights field, including media regulation. Professor Sajo has been extensively involved in legal drafting throughout Eastern Europe. In addition, he has participated in drafting the Ukrainian, Georgian, and South African constitutions. He served as Counsel to the President of the Republic of Hungary (1991-1992) and chaired the Media Codification Committee of the Hungarian Government (1994). He also was the principal draftsman of the Environment Code for the Hungarian Parliament (1991-1992), as well as the founder and speaker of the Hungarian League for the Abolition of the Death Penalty. He is a member of the American Law Institute (1997) and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1995). In 1986, he received the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Book Award and in 1993, The Blackstone Lecture at Oxford University.
Andreas Rötzer
Publisher
Andreas Rötzer works for the publishing company Matthes & Seitz Berlin, which has published books that have received numerous awards, including the
Kurt Wolff Prize (2008); the Prix de l'Académie de Berlin (2010) and the K.H. Zillmer Publisher Prize (2012).
Andrew Crane
Director
Andrew Crane is Professor of Business and Society and Director of the Centre for Business, Organisations and Society at the School of Management, University of Bath. His research explores new ways of thinking about the social, ethical and environmental dimensions of business. He is particularly known for his work on the changing role of the corporation in the global economy, where he has been influential in developing a new view of corporate citizenship that addresses the political roles and responsibilities of business. He has also focused on how ideas of ethics, freedom, and responsibility are communicated and made meaningful by corporations, consumers and other stakeholders through talk and text. Finally, his work has also addressed specific application areas of corporate responsibility, such as forced labour and slavery, competitive intelligence, responsible marketing, nonprofit partnerships, and responsibilities to children.
Anjan Sundaram
Journalist & Author
Anjan Sundaram is an author and journalist. His books have been widely recognised and his journalism has been awarded a Frontline Club prize and a Reuters prize, and been shortlisted for the Prix Bayeux and Kurt Schork award.
Ann Mumford
Professor of Taxation Law
Dr Ann Mumford specialises in tax law, fiscal institutions and equality. The scope of Ann's published work has ranged from feminist perspectives on taxation law, to, as a contributor to the 'new' fiscal sociology movement, the integration of tax legal scholarship into the realm of economic sociology. Ann regularly supports non-governmental organizations working to further women's economic equality, and works with scholarly organizations to support socio-legal research in the law of taxation. Ann's research work has focused on international, comparative, and socio-legal, feminist legal perspectives, particularly those that arise through taxation law.
Anne Roth
Policy Advisor
Anne Roth is political scientist and digital rights activist who has worked as a senior advisor to the parliamentary inquiry on mass surveillance of the German parliament from 2014 - 2017. She is now a policy advisor at the German Bundestag for a member of parliament in the committee on digital affairs. Before that she was a Senior advisor for the parliamentary group 'Die Linke' for the NSA Inquiry of the German Bundestag, and a researcher for the NGO Tactical Tech.
Annie Holmes
Writer & Filmmaker
Annie Holmes
Writer & Filmmaker
Annie Holmes is a writer and filmmaker, and currently directs STRIVE's Knowledge into Action team, developing the strategies, skills and materials to ensure the uptake and use of the consortium's agenda and findings. STRIVE is a research consortium investigating the social norms and inequalities that drive HIV, led from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Ariel Ricker
Executive Director
Augustine B Njamnshi
Executive Secretary
Augustine B Njamnshi is a jurist specialised in Environmental Governance and Policy. He has over 16 years of experience in management and policy of biodiversity in the Congo Basin and in Cameroon where he contributed immensely to the development of biodiversity policies. He has been the Co-Founder and Pioneer Chair of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance 2008-2012 and UNEP Major Groups Representative for Africa 2010-2012, the African Civil Society Representative on the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility as well as the Carbon Fund 2012-2016. Currently he is the Executive Secretary of Bioresources Development and Conservation Programme - Cameroon (BDCP-C), a Cameroon NGOs working on biodiversity and climate change, whose mission is to link biodiversity conservation with economic and health needs of local people. He also holds the positions of Francophone African Coordinator of The Access Initiative, the Chair of Political and Technical Affair of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance and the Coordinator of the African Coalition for Renewable Energy and Access.
Aziza Ahmed
Professor of Law
Professor Aziza Ahmed is an internationally renowned expert in health law, criminal law and human rights. Her scholarship examines the legal, regulatory and political environments on health in US domestic law, US foreign policy and international law. Professor Ahmed has been selected as a fellow with the Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA) at Princeton University. She is combining her sabbatical and her fellowship to spend the 2017-2018 academic year developing her work on law, feminism and science into a book with particular emphasis on how women's health advocates shaped the AIDS response. She has also written extensively about abortion and reproductive health.
Basharat Peer
International Opinion Editor
Basharat Peer is a Kashmiri journalist, script writer, author and political commentator. He currently edits the New York Times Opinion pages. He is the author of Curfewed Night, an eyewitness account of the Kashmir conflict, which won the Crossword Prize for Non-Fiction.
Ben Bowling
Professor of Criminology & Criminal Justice
Professor Ben Bowling is Deputy Executive Dean of the Dickson Poon School of Law. Ben studies crime, criminal justice, policing and community safety. He is currently working on two books: Policing the Caribbean (OUP) and Global Policing (Sage). These examine the extension of police power beyond the boundaries of the nation state and the practical, political, ethical and legal problems that arise. His most recent work on fairness, effectiveness and police accountability in the local, national and transnational spheres has been published in the Modern Law Review, Criminal Law Review, Criminology and Criminal Justice and Theoretical Criminology.
Ben Rawlence
Author
Ben Rawlence is a British writer who has written two books: Radio Congo: Signals Of Hope From Africa's Deadliest War (2012) and City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp (2016). From 2006 to 2013, he was a researcher for Human Rights Watch's Africa division. Rawlence has also written for The New York Times, The Guardian and London Review of Books. He holds a BA in Swahili and History from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and an MA in international relations from the University of Chicago. From 2006 to 2013 he was a researcher for Human Rights Watch (HRW) in its Africa division, covering at different times the Horn of Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zanzibar. He has also worked as an adviser to the Civic United Front, a liberal party in Tanzania, and as a foreign affairs adviser to the Liberal Democrats in the UK Parliament. He has written for The New York Times, The Guardian and London Review of Books. In 2010, whilst working for Human Rights Watch, Rawlence visited the refugee camp complex of Dadaab on the eastern Kenyan border with Somalia, then home to around 300,000 people. In 2011, he returned for the first of seven long visits over four years. Building on his years of research conducted for Human Rights Watch, he interviewed young Somali refugees living there, and saw the camp, which already was the largest refugee settlement in the world, grow further. His book resulting from these experiences is called City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp.
Bertil Emrah Oder
Dean
Bertil Emrah Oder is full Professor of constitutional law and dean at Koç University Law School. After receiving her LLB from Istanbul University Law School, she obtained LLM degree from Marmara University European Union Institute. She received her PhD degree in law with distinction ('summa cum laude') from University of Cologne (Germany). She served as a full time faculty in law schools of Istanbul University and Galatasaray University. She worked as associate director and executive member of various centers for EU law, human rights law, international relations and gender studies. She worked as international consultant of UN Women and Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) as regards legislative screening and capacity development projects on gender equality. During May-December 2012 she served as academic consultant of Constitutional Reconciliation Committee at Turkish Parliament. She received the title of Henry Morris Lecturer of International and Comparative Law at Chicago Kent College of Law in 2012. She is the member of International Association of Public Law (ICON-S), International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL), Law&Society Association (LSA) and International Association of Legislation (IAL).
Brian Preston
Chief Judge
Brian Preston is Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court in New South Wales. Prior to being appointed in 2005, he was a senior counsel practising primarily in environmental, planning, administrative and property law. He is an Adjunct Professor at Sydney Law School and has lectured in post-graduate environmental law for over 20 years, both in Australia and overseas. He is the author of AustraliaŐs first book on environmental litigation (in 1989), over 70 articles, numerous book chapters and reviews on environmental, administrative and criminal law. Justice Preston has been involved in a number of international environmental consultancies and capacity-building programs, including for the judiciaries in Indonesia, Kenya, China, Trinidad and Tobago, Thailand and Sri Lanka. He received an award by the Asian Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Network (AECEN) in 2010, in recognition of his outstanding leadership and commitment in promoting effective environmental adjudication in Asia.
Bridget Anderson
Professor of Mobilities, Migration & Citizenship
Burcu Karakaş
Independent Journalist
Burcu Karakas is an Istanbul-based freelance investigative journalist, covering human rights issues. She is currently writing for Deutsche Welle Turkish. Burcu embarked her career as a reporter at Milliyet, a leading Turkey daily. She is the recipient of European Union Young Investigative Journalist Prize for her work on suspicious deaths of women in southeastern Turkey among others. She has teamed up with the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) for investigative journalism projects. Karakas is the author of three books on minority issues and media landscape in Turkey.
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Calogero Ferrara
Prosecutor
Calogero Ferrara is an Assistant district attorney of the Republic in Palermo. He currently works on investigating the criminal networks of people-smuggling in Italy under the auspices of Glauco, a series of operations under the supervision of the National Anti-Mafia Directorate (DNA) that have begun to unveil the structure of violent smuggling networks.
Carlos Bernal-Pulido
Judge
Carlos Bernal is an Associate Professor at Macquarie Law School (Sydney, Australia). He has research interests in the fields of constitutional comparative law, jurisprudence, and torts. He has published widely in all these fields in 7 different languages. His qualifications include a LL.B. from the University Externado of Colombia (Bogota, 1996), a S.J.D. from the University of Salamanca (Spain, 2001) and a M.A. (2008) and a PhD in Philosophy (2011) from the University of Florida (USA). He has delivered guest lectures and presented papers in more than 20 countries. More recently, his research has focused on transitional justice, health, and environmental rights.
Catherine Howarth
Chief Executive
Catherine Howarth is Chief Executive of ShareAction, a charity that coordinates civil society activism to promote responsible investment across Europe. Using shareholder activism as a tool for transforming business behaviour, ShareAction works with partners including Amnesty UK, Greenpeace, and Christian Aid to demand strict adherence to human rights around the world, respect for the environment and Living Wages standards across the FTSE 100 companies. Howarth holds a Master's Degree in Industrial Relations from the London School of Economics and a First Class Bachelor Degree from Oxford University in Modern History. She is also a board member of the Scott Trust, owner of The Guardian, serving on the Scott Trust's investment committee. She was a Member Nominated Trustee of The Pensions Trust for five years until 2013. Previously, she was lead organiser of West London Citizens and Senior researcher at New Policy Institute. In 2011 Howarth was named a 'Rising Star of Corporate Governance' by Yale University's Millstein Center, and one of the 'top ten women in pensions' by Investment and Pensions Europe. In 2014, she was recognised by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader.
Celine Tan
Associate Professor
Charlotte Kroll
Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg, Migration und Inklusion
Charlotte Kroll
Christian Gelleri
Initiator of the Chiemgauer
Christian Gelleri
Initiator of the Chiemgauer
Christian Gelleri is a business studies and economics teacher and co-founder of the Chiemgauer regional currency. Today the Chiemgauer is the best-known regional currency in Germany with by far the highest currency circulation. Gelleri is also business manager of the cooperative Regios eG, through which he has further developed Chiemgauer from a solely note-based currency to include electronic payments (e-Chiemgauer). E-Chiemgauer began in 2007 and is financially supported by the German Ministry for Consumer Protection, Nutrition and Agriculture. Gelleri has received awards from the Tutzinger Foundation for Environmental Education and the Bad Boll Foundation for Money and Land Reform.
Christiana Ochoa
Associate Dean for Research & Faculty Affairs
Christine Parker
Professor of Law
Christine Parker is a Professor of Business Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility and Lawyers' Ethics at Melbourne Law School. She previously held positions at Griffith University, University of New South Wales, the Australian National University and Monash University. She holds a BA and LLB from the University of Queensland and a PhD from the Australian National University. Her research has focused on how business comply with legal, social and environmental responsibilities, what difference regulatory enforcement makes and how businesses can work with lawyers and compliance professionals to build internal corporate social responsibility systems that work. Her books related to this topic include The Open Corporations (2002) and Explaining Compliance (2011). Recently, she is researching on politics, ethics and regulation of food. Parker is also interested in how law can help individuals and especially businesses live more sustainably well in our ecological systems and she has helped develop and show a live multi-media eco-music performance, Music for a Warming World, on our individual, social and political responses to climate change.
Cindy Berman
Head of Modern Slavery Strategy
Cindy Berman is the Head of Knowledge & Learning at the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI), a tripartite not-for-profit membership organisation of companies, trade unions and NGOs focused on improving working conditions and labour rights in global supply chains. She leads ETI's work on modern slavery and labour exploitation, and has over 30 years' experience in international development and human rights. Born in South Africa, she has held senior roles at the UN, UK government departments, Commonwealth, civil society organisations, focusing on countries in Africa and Asia.
Claus Offe
Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology
Claus Offe is Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology at the Hertie School of Governance. He has held chairs for Political Science and Political Sociology at the Universities of Bielefeld (1975-1989) and Bremen (1989-1995), as well as at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin (1995-2005). He worked as fellow and visiting professor at, among others, the Institutes for Advanced Study at Stanford and Princeton, the Australian National University, Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley and The New School in New York.
Cormac Cullinan
Director
Cormac Cullinan is a practising environmental attorney and author based in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a director of the leading South African environmental law firm Cullinan & Associates Inc and Chief Executive Officer of EnAct International, an environmental governance consultancy. He is also an honorary research associate of the University of Cape Town and a member of the IUCN Environmental Law Commission A former anti-apartheid activist, and a London-based commercial lawyer, he has practised, taught and written about environmental law and policy since 1992, and has worked in more than 20 countries. His contribution in pioneering a legal philosophy that restores an ecological perspective to governance systems (Earth jurisprudence) is internationally recognised. He has addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations and many other international conferences, and led the drafting of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth. In 2008 he was included in a book profiling 301 extraordinary environmentalists in history and in 2012 he was won the Nick Steele award for the South African environmentalist of the year.
Dainius Pūras
Professor & UN Special Rapporteur
Mr Pūras is a Professor and the Head of the Centre for Child psychiatry social paediatrics at Vilnius University, and teaches at the Faculty of Medicine, Institute of International relations and political science and Faculty of Philosophy of Vilnius University, Lithuania. He is also visiting Professor at the Ilia State University, Georgia. As a medical doctor, he serves as a consultant at the Child Development Center, at Vilnius University Hospital. The United Nations Human Rights Council appointed Professor Dainius Pūras as a Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health at its twenty-sixth session in June 2014.
Dainius Pūras is a human rights advocate who has been actively involved during the last 30 years in the process of transforming public health policies and services, with special focus on the rights of children, persons with mental disabilities, and other vulnerable groups. Between 2007 and 2011, Mr Pūras served as a member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. He has been an independent expert and consultant to numerous Governments, NGOs, and UN agencies and programmes in the field of the right to health. He is author of over 60 scientific publications covering issues such as public health, mental health, public health policy, disabilities, and prevention of violence.
Daniel Drache
Professor Emeritus
Daniel Drache is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at York University and former Director of the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies. His work focuses on understanding the changing character of the globalisation narrative in its economic, social and cultural dimensions. He has worked extensively on the WTO's failed Doha Round with particular focus on TRIPS and public health, food security and nutrition, and poverty eradication. His most recent books include: (with S Archer, P Zumbansen, as eds), The Daunting Enterprise of the Law Essays in Honour of Harry Arthurs, and (with L Jacobs, as eds) Linking Global Trade and Human Rights: New Policy Space in Hard Economic Times. He has held numerous visiting appointments and has won research grants including from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT). Currently, he is at work on a major research project - the China Pivot and the New Silk Road Strategy - Beijing's Audacious Plans to Remake the Global Economy (published in 2018).
Daniel Trilling
Editor & Journalist
Daniel Trilling is the editor of New Humanist magazine and writes on migration, borders and nationalism for publications including the London Review of Books, Guardian and New York Times. He has been reporting on refugees in Europe since 2012 and is the author of Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe (Picador, 2018).
Dario Azzelini
Research Fellow
Dario Azzellini is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria, and a writer and documentary director. He holds a PhD in political science from the Goethe University, Frankfurt, and his research focuses on social movements, privatisation of military services, migration and workers' self-organisation in multiple national contexts. He is the author of 'Communes and Workers' Control in Venezuela (Brill 2016) and editor of 'An Alternative Labour History: Worker Control and Workplace Democracy' (Zed Books 2015). In 2015, he made a documentary series, Occupy, Resist, Produce, on recuperated factories. He currently serves as Associate Editor for WorkingUSA and for Cuadernos de Marte, an academic publication about war sociology published by the University of Buenos Aires.
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David Edgerton
Professor
Professor David Edgerton is the Hans Rausing Professor of the History of Science and Technology and Professor of Modern British History at King's College, London. After teaching at the University of Manchester he became the founding director of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Imperial College London (1993-2003) where he was also Hans Rausing Professor. He joined the History department with the Centre on its transfer to King's in August 2013. He was a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellow, 2006-2009, and gave the 2009 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Prize Lecture at the Royal Society.
David Nelken
Professor of Law
David Nelken PHD, LLD (Cambridge) taught at Cambridge, Edinburgh and University College, London before moving to Italy in 1989 as Distinguished Professor of Legal Institutions and Social Change at the University of Macerata. From 1995 to 2013 he was Distinguished Research Professor of Law at Cardiff University, and since 2010 he has been the Visiting Professor of Criminology at Oxford University.
His work, covering both theoretical enquiry and empirical investigation, is in the areas of comparative sociology of law, criminology, and legal and social theory. Awards received include: American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholar Award (1985); the Sellin-Glueck International award of the American Criminological Society (2009); the Podgorecki Distinguished senior scholar award from the International Sociological Association (2011); and the Law & Society (USA) International Scholar Award (2013).
David Westbrook
Del Cotto Professor
David Westbrook thinks and writes about the social and intellectual consequences of contemporary political economy. His work influences numerous disciplines, including law, economics, finance, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies and design. He has spoken on six continents to academics, business and financial leaders, members of the security community, civil institutions and governments, often with the sponsorship of the U.S. State Department. Westbrook teaches on business and international topics, including basic courses in corporations and international law.
Debbie Ariyo OBE
Founder & CEO
Debbie is Founder and Chief Executive of AFRUCA – Africans Unite Against Child Abuse. She holds an Executive Master degree in Public Administration from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a Master degree in Urban Policy from the University of North London and a Bachelors degree in French and Education from the University of Benin, Nigeria. Born in England and raised in Nigeria, she spent 12 years working in the British Civil Service across different government departments and in different policy posts including urban regeneration, competitiveness, small business development, youth entrepreneurship and enterprise policies. She resigned from the Civil Service in 2003 to run AFRUCA full time. Now as a multi-award winning social entrepreneur, Debbie is the Chief Executive of AFRUCA. Since its establishment in 2001, AFRUCA has become a reputable children’s charity with employees and volunteers spread across two offices in London and Manchester. With 15 years senior management experience in a number of key areas, she has helped to build the AFRUCA brand and its range of innovative work programmes on the promotion and protection of African children, raising the organisation’s profile as a dynamic children’s charity. Debbie works with others to develop and implement AFRUCA’s business plans and strategies, making it one of the most successful black-led charities in the UK.
Dimitrios Bouras
Journalist & Anthropologist
Dimitrios Bouras
Dimitrios Bouras has been a photojournalist since 1980, working as a freelance researcher and reporter on humanitarian issues, social injustice, poverty and war around the globe. His awards include Amnesty International, a Prix Pictet Commission, and honours from Pictures of the Year International. In 2017 he presented a series of seminars in the University of Cambridge under the title 'Photography between Invisibility and the Unseen', as well lectures towards accuracy and transparency in the new media terrain: 'From the TRUST ME era to the SHOW ME era'. He has lectured at London School of Economics and The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London on reporting the refugee crisis.
Dipika Jain
Associate Professor
Djamila Ribeiro
Human Rights Activist
Djamila Ribeiro
Human Rights Activist
Djamila Ribeiro is one of the most popular writers and public figures in the Afro-Brazilian woman's rights movement. She was born into a working class family in the gritty port city of Santos to communist parents. Her father was active in the local longshoreman's union and used to take her to the Soviet Union-Brazil cultural center for chess lessons. By the age of 8 she was already winning chess tournaments. She went on to study political philosophy at UNIFESP, one of the best universities in Brazil and is currently working towards a doctorate. During 2016 she was appointed sub-secretary of Human Rights for the City of São Paulo by Mayor Fernando Haddad (PT) and she currently has a blog following on sites like Mulheres Negras, numbering in the hundreds of thousands. She recently wrote the introduction for the Brazilian edition of Angela Davis' seminal work, Women, Race & Class.
Donatella Alessandrini
Professor of Law
Professor Donatella Alessandrini is the Co-Director of Postgraduate Research at the Kent Law School. Her research lies at the intersection of law and political economy, with a particular interest in development studies, critical trade and development literature, feminist political economy and political theory. Her earlier work has focused on the political economy of 'development' in multilateral trading relations, with an emphasis on the World Trade Organisation. She is currently working with Suhraiya Jivraj on the importance that Well Being and Happiness (WBH) initiatives have acquired in intern/national policy making; as well as exploring contemporary approaches to conceptual and normative understandings of the production of value in today's financialised economies.
Dorothy Grace Guerrero
Head of Policy & Advocacy
Dorothy Grace Guerrero is Head of Policy at Global Justice Now. Her work as organiser, researcher/analyst, educator, and campaigner in social movements and NGOs spans almost 30 years. She works on and writes about climate change and energy issues, impacts of globalised trade and investments on people's livelihoods in Asia, China's new role in the global political economy and other economic justice concerns.
Eduardo J. Gómez
Senior Lecturer in International Development & Emerging Economies
King's College London
Eduardo J. Gómez
Senior Lecturer in International Development & Emerging Economies
Elly Schlein
Member
Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats, European Parliament
Elly Schlein
Member
Elly Schlein is a Member of the European Parliament, part of Possibile, party founded in 2015 with Giuseppe Civati, and in the EP she’s part of the S&D Group. She works within the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), where she deals with migration policies and is part of the EP negotiating team on the revision of the Dublin regulation on asylum. She is also a member of the Committee on Development (DEVE), where she dealt with the new Sustainable Development Goals; and she seats on the TAX3 committee, focusing on tax justice and fighting tax avoidance and tax evasion, with a global perspective on the devastating effects of these practices, particularly on developing countries.
Emily Barritt
Lecturer in Tort Law
Dr Emily Barritt is a Lecturer in Tort Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law. Her doctoral research considered how environmental rights, democracy and stewardship are promoted by the Aarhus Convention, an international environmental law convention designed to promote access to justice and public participation in relation the environment. A monograph based on her PhD, Foundations of the Aarhus Convention: Environmental Rights, Democracy and Stewardship, is under contract for publication with Hart Publishing. Since completing her PhD, Dr Barritt has undertaken research on the nature of adjudication in the context of climate change and the Aarhus Convention. Alongside this, she has worked on a collaborative research project at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance developing legal options for a new treaty on the protection of marine biodiversity.
Engin Isin
Professor in International Politics
Engin Isin is a professor of International Politics at Queen Mary, University of London. From 2002-2006, he was Canada Research Chair (2002-2006) at York University, and from 2007-2016, professor of politics at The Open University, before joining Queen Mary in 2017. Engin's research and teaching focus on doing international politics: the ways in which people constitute themselves as actors or subjects of international politics through performances, movements, and struggles. Engin holds a bachelor's degree from Middle East Technical University (Turkey) and graduate degrees from the Universities of Waterloo (MA) and Toronto (PhD). He developed an early interest in continental philosophy and was educated as an historical sociologist and political sociologist. Engin is a chief editor of Citizenship Studies and is the editor of a book series Frontiers of the Political with Rowman & Littlefield International. His current research focuses on migration, borders, and citizenship.
Engin Onder
Managing Partner
Engin Önder is a Turkish ‘citizen journalist’. Together with two friends, Önder started the Twitter-account 140journos, which evolved into a channel of politically engaged criticism. He also is the founder of the Institute for Creative Minds, an interdisciplinary collective from Istanbul that aims to reform civil society through art, design and social innovation. Engin Önder contributes to 1 Night, 12 Hours, 100 Questions – Interview Marathon – June 1 18:00 in De Balie.
Eric King
Independent Consultant; Visiting Professor
Eric is an independent consultant and Visiting Lecturer at Queen Mary, University London where he teaches on surveillance law. Previously, he was Director of Don’t Spy On Us, a UK coalition of NGOs campaigning for reform in the wake of the Snowden revelations, and prior to he that was Deputy Director at Privacy International where he launched a number of pieces of litigation against the UK Security and Intelligence Agencies.
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Eric Talley
Isidor & Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law
Ewan McGaughey
Lecturer in Private Law
King's College London School of Law
Farnush Ghadery
PhD Candidate & Visiting Lecturer
Farnush Ghadery is a Visiting Lecturer and PhD researcher at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, where she also completed her LLM in Transnational Law. She obtained an LLB in Law and German Law from the University of Birmingham. She was a recipient of the Yeoh Tiong Lay LLM Scholarship and currently holds the Dickson Poon Postgraduate Research Scholarship. Her PhD research focuses on women’s rights and participation in the context of transitional justice and peace-building processes in post-conflict states, particularly in the context of Afghanistan. Farnush designed the LLM module ‘Transnational Legal Feminism’, which she teaches at The Dickson Poon School of Law. Additionally, she works as a Legal Officer with the human rights NGO ‘Global Legal Action Network’ as well as a research assistant at the Transnational Law Institute. She has been a fellow of the Transnational Law Summer Institute 2017 at the University of New South Wales, the PhD Workshop 2016 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the recipient of the International Academic Research Fellowship 2014 at the Ananta Aspen Centre, New Delhi.
Fay Koutzoukou
Program Coordinator
Fay Koutzoukou has graduated from the Law School of Athens in 2008. She holds a Master of Arts Degree in Global Media & Communications from Goldsmiths College and a Master of Laws Degree from University of Southern California. She is a member of the Athens Bar Association and a certified coach and organizational development consultant. For the past 6 years she has been working in the Civil Society sector in Greece, specializing in grants administration & project management. Since October 2016, she is the Program Manager of the accommodation & services grant for asylum seekers at SolidarityNow, a program supported by UNHCR and funded by the European Union Civil Protection & Humanitarian Aid. She has been volunteering her time for several years for the organization of TEDx Athens & Athens Biennale.
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Fiona Haines
Professor of Criminology
Fiona Haines is Professor of Criminology in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Adjunct Professor at the Regulatory Institutions Network at ANU and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Her research, which encompasses work on industrial disasters, grievances and multinational enterprises, centres on white collar and corporate crime, globalisation and regulation. She is an internationally renowned expert in the area of regulation and compliance with published work in the area ranging from industrial disasters, occupational health & safety and financial fraud to the impact of criminalisation of cartel conduct, challenges for regulation in the transformation of the National Electricity Market with the introduction of household solar PV and the capacity of new governance to resolve issues of human rights violations associated with the activities of multinational corporations. Her recent books include The Paradox of Regulation: what regulation can achieve and what it cannot (Edward Elgar, 2011) and Regulatory Transformations: Rethinking Economy Society Interactions, (Hart Publishing), 2015, co-edited with Bettina Lange and Dania Thomas. Her major current research projects include an analysis of how to hold multinational corporations accountable for human right's abuse, the social impact of coal seam gas exploration and rethinking regulation in an ecologically constrained world.
Francis F. L. Lee
Director & Professor
Francis L. F. Lee is Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His recent publications include Talk Radio: the Mainstream Press, and Public Opinion in Hong Kong (Hong Kong University Press 2014) and Communication, Public Opinion, and Globalization in Urban China (with Chin-chuan Lee, Mike Z. Yao, Tsan-kuo Chang, Jennifer Fen Lin, and Fei Shen, Routledge, 2013). He holds a PhD from Stanford University and has published in a number of journals, including the Chinese Journal of Communication, Media Culture & Society, and the Journal of Comparative Asian Development. His research interests include press freedom and political change, media and collective memory of political events, media and political scandals, and postmaterialism in Hong Kong. He has received substantial recognition internationally for his innovative research, including a Research Excellence Award from the Faculty of Social Science at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2013.
Fritjof Capra
Founding Director
Gautam Bhan
Lead, Academics & Research
Dr Gautam Bhan is part of the School of Human Development at the Indian Institute For Human Settlements (IIHS). He teaches, researches and writes on the politics of urban poverty and inequality, urban and planning theory, housing, and identity and social practice. At IIHS, Gautam has taught under several programmes, including the Urban Fellows Programme, the Urban Practitioners Programme and the PWP-UD. He anchors his IIHS role as a National Resource Centre with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, and is part of IIHS' work in affordable housing policy and practice. His previous research has focused on displacement and resettlement of the urban poor in Delhi, and his new work engages with regimes of urban welfare and social security, including work on urban health. He has been an active part of urban social movements on sexuality as well as housing rights, and currently advises and trains governmental agencies at local, state and national levels on housing policy.
Gavin Sullivan
Lecturer in Law
Gavin Sullivan joined Kent Law School as a Lecturer in Law in January 2016, having previously worked as a doctoral researcher in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. Gavin's current research focuses on the politics of global security law, and he is especially interested in understanding how law changes with the need to counter unknown future threats, and how different materials, forms of expertise and knowledge practices help to create and shape what law is. A former Director of the Counterterrorism Programme at the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights in Berlin, Gavin is an Associate Researcher with the Centre for the Politics of Transnational Law at VU University in the Netherlands, an alumnus of the Transnational Law Summer Institute (TLSI) at King's College London, and an editor of the Transnational Legal Theory journal. He is currently preparing a research monograph on UN sanctions against Al-Qaeda.
Genevieve LeBaron
Senior Lecturer
Genevieve LeBaron is a Senior Lecturer in Politics attached to both the Department of Politics and SPERI at the University of Sheffield. She is also Chair of Yale University's Modern Day Slavery Working Group housed at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition and a UK ESRC Future Research Fellow. She joined the University of Sheffield as Vice-Chancellor's Fellow in 2013. In 2017, she was ranked #38 (and the #1 academic) on the global Top 100 Human Trafficking & Slavery Influence Leaders List. In 2015, she was awarded the Rising Star Engagement Award from the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences in recognition of her contributions to research and policy-making on forced labour. Her research focuses on the political economy of the global labour market, including current research projects on the governance of labour standards in transnational supply chains and the business models of forced labour.
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Gillian Douglas
Executive Dean
Professor Gillian Douglas is the Dean of the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London. Prior to taking up leadership of The Dickson Poon School of Law at King's, Professor Douglas was Professor of Law in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University and served as Head of the School between 2005 - 2010. In 2015, Professor Douglas took up a two-year Major Research Fellowship funded by the Leverhulme Trust to pursue a study of obligation and commitment in Family Law, and was awarded the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Annual Conference Best Paper Prize for her presentation on this topic at the SLS conference in September 2015. Professor Douglas was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2016 and elected a Fellow of the British Academy this year. Professor Douglas' main research interest is family law, on which she has written extensively. She is a past Secretary-General of the International Society of Family Law and is a co-editor of the Child and Family Law Quarterly and joint case reports editor of the journal, Family Law. Professor Douglas has conducted several empirical research studies into aspects of the family justice system, funded by, amongst others, the AHRC, ESRC, the Nuffield Foundation and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Glynn Rankin
Director
Glynn Rankin Glynn is a Senior Research Fellow of the University of Liverpool and at Sheffield Hallam University. He is currently a lecturer at Coventry University, and is one of the founding architects of the UK Human Trafficking Strategy and an acknowledged expert in combating human trafficking, both in the UK and internationally. He is a barrister, called to the bar, by Middle Temple in 1983, and attained an MBA in 2002. He has held a number of senior positions with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), and was also a founder member of the UK Human Trafficking Centre (UKHTC). He is currently studying for his PhD at the University of Liverpool. He has experience in working in cross sector multi -disciplinary environments, with a specific focus on combating human trafficking in all its forms. Glynn was responsible for charging the first labour trafficking offence in the UK. Glynn is an ESRC Peer College Review member and a Steering Group member of CENTRIC. He was a member of the European Commission Group of Experts on Trafficking (2007-11), Chair of the Interpol Working Group on Trafficking (2008-10), and a member of the Joseph Rowntree Trust Advisory Board on Labour Trafficking.
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Graham Morgan
Engagement & Participation Officer (Lived Experience)
Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
Graham Morgan
Engagement & Participation Officer (Lived Experience)
Graham Morgan is an Engagement and Participation Officer (Lived Experience) with the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland. A prominent campaigner in Scotland for people suffering mental ill health, he works with HUG, an organisation campaigning to improve rights, services and treatment across the Highlands for people with mental health problems. Graham also manages SPIRIT advocacy, an organisation which oversees the organisation of HUG and People First Highland. He works closely with the media, and conducts awareness-raising training programmes for professionals.
Günter Frankenberg
Professor
Günter Frankenberg teaches public law, legal philosophy and comparative law at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main (Germany); as well as at the École des Droit of Sciences Po, where he is the Alfred Grosser Professor. Professor Frankenberg has also been a visiting professor at Havard Law School, Tulane Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Melbourne. His most recent publications include Political Economy and the Erosion of the Rule of Law - Normalizing the State of Exception (Elgar 2014); Comparative Law as Critique (Elgar 2016); and Comparative Constitutional Studies - Between Magic and Deceit (Elgar 2018).
Guy Standing
Professorial Research Associate
Guy Standing is a Professorial Research Associate and former Professor of Development Studies at SOAS University of London. He is a founder member and honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), an international non-governmental organisation that promotes basic income, whose members include economists, philosophers and other social scientists from over 50 countries. He has a doctorate in economics from the University of Cambridge and a Master's degree in industrial relations from the University of Illinois. He has written and edited books on labour economics, labour market policy, unemployment, labour market flexibility, structural adjustment policies, and social protection policy. He has held chairs at the Universities of Bath and Monash (Australia) and was previously Director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the ILO.
Harry Arthurs
President Emeritus
Hasina Khan
Women's Rights Activist & Founding Member
Hasina Khan is the founder of Bebaak Collective, an umbrella organisation of Muslim women's groups in India
Hassoum Ceesay
Historian & Literary Critic
Hassoum Ceesay, is a highly regarded Gambian historian and literary critic. He specialises in Gambian women's history and has published a widely acclaimed book titled 'Gambian Women: An Introductory History' (Fulladu Publishers, 2007). His second book titled 'Gambian Women: Notes and Historical Profiles' (Fulladu, Publishers) came out in 2011, and has received positive reviews. He was features editor at the Daily Observer newspaper in Banjul and editorial writer from 1999-2006. He has contributed six entries on prominent Gambian women personalities in the Dictionary of African Biography edited by Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. published Oxford University Press. He currently works at the National Centre for Arts and Culture and is also Vice president of the Writers Association of The Gambia.
Heinz Klug
Professor of Law
Heinz Klug is Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and an Honorary Senior Research Associate in the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Professor Klug taught law at the University of the Witwatersrand from 1991 to 1996, offering a wide range of courses including Public International Law, Human Rights Law, Property Law, Post-Apartheid Law and Introduction to South African Law. After the country's first democratic elections in 1994, Professor Klug also served as a legal advisor to the South African Ministry of Water Affairs and Forestry and the Ministry of Land Affairs, advising on water law and land tenure issues. His research interests include constitutional transitions, constitution-building, human rights, international legal regimes and natural resources. His current teaching areas include Comparative Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Property, and Natural Resources Law.
Helen Adams
Lecturer in Disaster Risk Reduction & Climate Change Adaptation
Helen Adams is an environmental social scientist working on the subjective dimensions of human interactions with environmental change, with a focus on marginal regions of low income countries. She currently works at King's College London Department of Geography, where she convenes the Centre for Integrated Research on Resilience and Risk - a college-wide initiative to promote research that critically examines the conceptualisation and use of resilience across three intersecting global challenges: climate change and disaster reduction, conflict and security and human health. Before, she worked with Neil Adger on the linkages between human wellbeing and natural resources dependence in marginal population in Bangladesh. She completed her PhD at the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia in 2012. Her thesis examined the role of environment in migration decision-making in rural Peru. Prior to starting the PhD, Adams worked with the Climate Change Expert Group at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris on policy frameworks for adaptation to climate change in the water sector and at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat supporting negotiations on adaptation and the implementation of the Nairobi Work Programme.
Helen Hughes
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies
Helen Hughes is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Surrey. She has published journal articles and chapters on West German cinema, experimental film, environmental documentary and Kafka, as well as on the GDR and new Austrian documentary cinema. She has worked extensively on German-language film with Dr Martin Brady of King's College London, including co-editing Deutschland im Spiegel seiner Filme (2000) and translating Alexander Kluge's Cinema Stories (2007). She collaborated with Dr Ute Wölfel from the University of Reading on representations of gender and the workplace in DEFA documentary film. In 2014 she published a monograph, Green Documentary. Helen is currently working on a number of projects addressing film and nuclear power, documentary film landscapes, experiments with the voice, and documentary and disability, with a research focus in environmental humanities. While her writing has focused primarily on documentary responses to environmental issues, she is also interested in other media such as painting, land art, installation, performance art, and literature.
Horia Mosadiq
Researcher
Irene de Vos
General Counsel
Irene de Vos is Counsel serving the Joanneburg Bar Council. She joined the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa as a senior legal researcher and general counsel in May 2015, before which she had a private practice with a focus on human rights litigation. Irene's practice encompasses constitutional law, administrative law, refugee rights, property law and labour law. She holds an LLB & LLM (cum laude) from the University of Pretoria. She also holds an LLM in Public International Law: International Human Rights (cum laude) from Leiden University, the Netherlands. She has clerked for the former Chief Justice of South Africa, Mr Pius Langa and the Chief Justice of Kenya, Mr Willy Mutunga. She has also worked in an international pro-bono organisation that litigates in regional and international courts, with a focus on slavery and extraordinary rendition.
Isabel Feichtner
Professor
Isabel Feichtner is a Professor at the University of Würzburg. Prior to this appointment, she was an Associate Professor at Goethe University where she taught and supervised graduate students in the graduate programme Law and Economics of Money and Finance. She is a member of the European Journal of International Law's editorial board, of the International Law Association Committee on the Role of International Law in Sustainable Natural Resource Management for Development and an associated member of the cluster of excellence Normative Orders at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her research focuses on international economic law, transnational resource law and the legal design of money.
James Kofi Annan
President
James Kofi Annan is a survivor of child trafficking and child labour, subsequently founding Challenging Heights, an NGO aiming to reduce and prevent child trafficking and protect children's rights in Ghana.
Jannie Staffansson
Political Advisor
Jannie Staffansson is a staff member at Saami Council, in the Artic and Environment Unit, and is the Saami representative at the Arctic Council, where she is the Head of Delegation in the AMAP (Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme) Working Group. She is the former representative in The Task Force Action on Black Carbon and Methane, and in the Expert group on Persistent Organic Pollutants. She graduated with a degree in environmental chemistry and is doing a Master's in organic-environmental chemistry at the University of Gothenburg. In 2015, she was elected to be on the Arctic Focal Point within the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change (IIPFCC), where she negotiated as a part of the UNFCCC meetings and finally during COP21 in Paris. Since 2016, she has served as the Indigenous representative on the Arctic Science Summit Steering Committee. Staffansson was a powerful voice for Indigenous peoples at the climate change summit in Paris in 2015 and again at the 2016 climate conference in Morocco, speaking out about Indigenous rights.
Jayshree Satpute
Human Rights Lawyer & Co-Founder
Jean-Michel Glachant
Director
Jean-Michel Glachant is Robert Schuman Chair, Director of the Florence School of Regulation, and Director of Loyola de Palacio Energy Policy Programme at the European University Institute. He holds a PhD in economics from the Sorbonne. He joined University Paris Sud in Autumn 2000, where he headed the department of economics and founded the research team 'Groupe Réseaux Jean Monnet', and later the European Erasmus Mundus Master EMIN (Economics and management of network industries). His main research interests are the building of a common European energy policy, the achievement of the European energy internal market, and the industrial organisation and market strategy of energy companies.
Jill Freidberg
Filmmaker
Jill Irene Freidberg teaches documentary film production, oral history, and audio storytelling at the University of Washington Bothell. Prior to joining the University of Washington, she taught in the Film and Video Communications program at Seattle Central Community College, where she instructed second-year students in directing, production, story development, writing, and editing. She got her start as a filmmaker in the mid-90s, pulling long hours in the editing suite for Bill Nye the Science Guy. Since then, she has edited, directed, shot, and/or produced five award-winning feature-length documentaries, three national PBS series, countless documentary shorts, and several oral history projects. Between 2003 and 2008, Freidberg worked primarily in southern Mexico, producing, directing, and editing two award-winning documentaries. It was during this time that she got to interview her greatest hero, the late Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano. She also mentors for Reel Grrls, teaching media production and media literacy to girls between the ages of 12 and 18. Freidberg received a BA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oregon (1990) and a Certificate of Excellence in Film Production from the Vancouver Film School (1994).
JJ Bola
Writer, Poet, Educator
JJ Bola is a Writer and Poet, debut novelist and educator. JJ Bola's work is centred on a narrative of empowerment, humanisation, healing of trauma as well as discovery of self through art, literature and poetry. Creating the increasingingly popular addage, 'hype your writers like you do you rappers', he believes that the true purpose of poetry (art) is to expose the reality of this world and how to, most importantly, survive it. JJ Bola reads regularly at shows and festivals across London/UK such as Tongue Fu, Vocals & Verses, Chill Pill, The Round House, Ventnor Fringe, Glastonbury as well as Universities; SOAS, UCL, Oxford, Lincoln, University of Birmingham, and a mini tour of the US West Coast in 2015/16, LA, Da Poetry Lounge, UCLA, Standford University and Merrit College in the Bay Area, San Francisco and Oakland, where he won the Oakland Poetry Slam. His debut novel, No Place to Call Home (OWN IT, 2017) was longlisted for the Guardian Not The Booker prize 2017. JJ Bola has published three books of poetry Elevate (2012) and Daughter of the Sun (2014) and WORD (2015).
Joanna Erdman
MacBain Chair in Health Law & Policy
Joanna Erdman is an Associate Professor of Law, MacBain Chair in Health Law and Policy and the Associate Director of the Health Law Institute at the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. Joanna's primary research concerns sexual and reproductive health law in a transnational context. She has published in leading international journals on topics such as harm reduction in safe abortion, the regulation of emergency contraception, and HPV vaccines policy.
Joanne Etherton
Pensions Lawyer
Joel Bakan
Professor of Law
Joel Bakan is a filmmaker and Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia. His research areas include constitutional law, socio-legal studies, legal theory and economic law. He studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and served as Law Clerk for Chief Justice Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1985. Following three years as Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, he joined the University of British Columbia Law Faculty in 1990 as Associate Professor. Professor Bakan teaches constitutional law, contracts, socio-legal courses and the graduate seminar. He has twice won the Faculty of Law's Teaching Excellence Award and was awarded a UBC Killam Research Prize.
John Christensen
Chair
John Christensen is a forensic auditor and economist and Director of the Tax Justice Network. He has worked in many countries around the world, including a period of working in offshore financial services with Touche Ross & Co. For 11 years he was economic adviser to the government of the British Channel Island of Jersey. In 2003 he became what the Guardian has described as 'the unlikely figurehead of a worldwide campaign against tax avoidance.' His research on offshore finance has been widely published in books and academic journals, and John has taken part in many films, television documentaries and radio programmes.
Julia Dehm
Lecturer
Dr Julia Dehm is a Lecturer at the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, at La Trobe Law School in Melbourne. Her research addresses international climate change law and regulation, transnational carbon markets and the governance of natural resources as well as human rights issues. Her PhD thesis on the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) scheme won the Melbourne Law School Harold Luntz Graduate Research Thesis Prize and the Melbourne University Chancellor's Prize for Excellence in the PhD Thesis. Julia was co-editor of the report Occupy Policing: A Report into the Effects and Legality of the Eviction of Occupy Melbourne from City Square on 21 October 2011 and a member of the Occupy Melbourne Legal Support Team that was awarded the 2012 Tim McCoy Award for human rights work by the Federation of Community Legal Centres.
Justine Nolan
Associate Professor & Associate Dean
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Karen Glaser
Professor of Gerontology
Karen Glaser is Professor of Gerontology at King's College London. After finishing her PhD in Sociology (specialising in demography) at the Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, Karen Glaser came to Britain and worked with Professors Emily Grundy and Mike Murphy on the ESRC funded project ‘Intergenerational Relationships and Household Change’. Although her PhD focused on the fertility consequences of cohabiting unions in Costa Rica, she developed a long-standing interest in the family lives of older people through her work on this latter project. She went on to combine her interests in ageing, family structure, marriage and cohabitation, examining them from an international comparative perspective.
Karen McCarthy Woolf
Poet
Karen McCarthy Woolf is a writer and poet. She has been awarded residencies at the literary development agency Spread the Word, the City of El Gouna, Egypt and at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich in 2015 where she responded to an exhibit on migration. Having read at a wide variety of national and international venues and festivals, including Cheltenham, Aldeburgh, Ledbury, the Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Centre, V&A, Tate Modern and Science Museum in the UK, as well as in the US, Singapore, Sweden and the Caribbean, she is known as a compelling presenter of her work. Karen has an active interest in cross-platform collaboration: her writing has been commissioned as an installation, selected for Poems on the Underground, produced as a poetry/choreography film and dropped from a helicopter over the Houses of Parliament by the Chilean arts collective Casagrande. The recipient of an Arts Council England Award, the Kate Betts Memorial Prize and an AHRC scholarship at Royal Holloway, The University of London, she is researching hybridity in poetry and how this informs ways in which we might write about nature, the city and the sacred.
Karl Widerquist
Associate Professor
Karl Widerquist is an Associate Professor at SFS-Qatar, Georgetown University. He specialises in political philosophy. His research is mostly in the area of distributive justice - the ethics of who has what. He holds two doctorates - one in Political Theory from Oxford University (2006) and one in Economics from the City University of New York (1996). He was a founding editor of the journal 'Basic Income Studies', and he has published more than a twenty scholarly articles and book chapters. Widerquist was one of the founders of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee (USBIG) Network and its coordinator its first ten years 2000-2010. He was the NewsFlash editor for USBIG 2010-2015 and for the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) 2010-2015. He was one of the founders of BIEN's news website, Basic Income News, and its principle editor for its first four years.
Kate Maclean
Senior Lecturer
Kate Sutherland
Associate Professor
Professor Kate Sutherland joined Osgoode's faculty in 1998, and has taught law at the University of Saskatchewan. She has served as law clerk to Chief Justice Antonio Lamer of the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as Chief Justice E. D. Bayda of the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan. Professor Sutherland is former Acting Director of the Centre for Constitutional Studies at the University of Alberta, and has written and presented in areas such as charter equality rights, sexual harassment, childhood sexual abuse, and tort law. She has served as editor or co-editor of several publications, including Review of Constitutional Studies, Constitutional Forum, Points of View, and Saskatchewan Law Review. Professor Sutherland has also written several literary pieces, including 'The Necklace' in The New Quarterly , Winter (1997), Summer Reading: A Collection of Short Fiction (Saskatoon: Thistledown Press, 1995), and 'Lucia' in Prairie Fire (1992). Professor Sutherland's community involvement has included her work for the Boston AIDS Care Project, University of Saskatchewan Women's Centre, Her Story Calendar Collective, Saskatchewan Action Committee on the Status of Women, and the Saskatchewan Writers Guild.
Katharine Jones
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Trust, Peace & Social Relations, Coventry University
Katharine Jones
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Katharine Jones is a Senior Research Fellow in the Migration, Displacement and Belonging Research Group. Dr Jones was previously Director and founder of the Global Migrant Rights' Research consultancy where she led major international research projects on migration intermediaries and human rights for the ILO Special Action Programme to Combat Forced Labour, the International Organisation for Migration, and Open Society Foundations amongst others. She is widely regarded as an expert on labour migration and migration intermediaries and is a Director and Trustee of the Scottish Refugee Council and a trustee of Scottish Detainee Visitors and Bazooka Arts.
Katherine Stone
Arjay & Frances Fearing Miller Distinguished Professor of Law
University of California, Los Angeles
Katherine Stone
Arjay & Frances Fearing Miller Distinguished Professor of Law
Kathleen Lahey
Professor & Queen's National Scholar
Katrin Meyer
Senior Lecturer
Dr Katrin Meyer is a senior lecture in philosophy and gender studies at the University of Basel and programme coordinator of the Swiss Think Tank Gender & Diversity. Her main interests are in the fields of intersectionality, radical democracy and theories of power.
Kelseny Medeiros-Pinho
Public Interest Lawyer
Kelseny Medeiros Pinho is public interest lawyer and activist at Gaspar Garcia, a Brazilian housing rights NGO. She provides legal assistance to communities facing threats of forced evictions in São Paulo´s metropolitan area. A graduate from University of São Paulo´s Law School (2013), Mrs. Pinho served as ombudswoman for homeless people at Luiz Gama Human Rights Clinic, reporting human rights violations. She provided legal aid to incarcerated teenagers, taking special interest in mental health related cases (2012-2014). Her research on criminal justice through the critical lens of Psychiatric Reform was presented at Brazil´s IV National Mental Health Conference.
Kevin Banks
Associate Professor
Kevin Hyland OBE
Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner
Kevin Hyland OBE
Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner
Konstantinos Provias
Hellenic Coast Guard
Lieutenant Konstantinos Provias is an Officer of the Hellenic Coast Guard with 18 years of experience in sea border protection and surveillance. He has been serving in the Hellenic Coast Guard since 2000 and currently is the Commanding Officer of the Special Missions Unit in Piraeus, Greece. He was the Top student of the Department of Mediterranean Studies in 2010, where he studied International Relations and Organizations at the University of the Aegean, in Rhodes, Greece. He is a King’s College Alumnus of 2016. He attended the MA Terrorism, Security and Society and got his degree with distinction.
Kooj Chuhan
Director
Kuljit 'Kooj' Chuhan crosses a range of disciplines including video and digital media practice and teaching; cultural development; as a creative producer and project manager; a collaborative audio-visual project consultant for museums; and in education, curriculum and learning development. He lectures in contemporary film (directing, music, theory) at Manchester Metropolitan University and has been exhibited and published across the UK and internationally, featuring at festivals such as VIDEO POSITIVE, ISEA and SIGGRAPH. Kooj has founded and run a number of groups and organisations such as the Virtual Migrants artists collective formed in 1998, exploring issues of race, migration and globalisation. They have become one of the few arts groups to successfully tour work produced using collaborative participatory methods to art galleries across the UK including London, Bristol, Glasgow, Derby, Manchester and Plymouth, involving further collaboration and participation while on tour. Virtual Migrants' recent arts, media and cultural work on climate, race and refuge was selected as one of a key 15 out of 200 projects to be profiled as good community engagement practice by the British Science Association, and subsequently won a Beacon Recognition award.
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Larry Lohmann
Co-Director
Lavanya Rajamani
Professor
Lavanya Rajamani is a Research Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, India, where she researches legal issues relating to the environment (and climate change), international law, and human rights. She has authored or edited several books on international environmental law, written periodicals and academic journals, reports and working papers for numerous organisations including the ILA, the World Bank, and the UNFCCC. She holds an LLM from Yale, a DPhil and BCL from Oxford, where she was a Rhodes scholar, and a B.A.LL.B. (Honours) from National Law School, Bangalore. Lavanya has worked on international climate negotiations since 1998. Among other roles, she has served as a consultant to the UNFCCC Secretariat, as a negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island States, and as a legal adviser to Working Groups, governments, multilateral agencies and international organisations. Lavanya has taught at Queens' College, Cambridge, among other universities, and was a Junior Research Fellow in Public International Law at Worcester College, Oxford.
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Lesley Sherratt
Lecturer
Lesley Sherratt is a visiting lecturer at King’s College, London, and the Instituto de Estudios Bursatiles, Madrid. She previously enjoyed a long career in investment management as Investment Director of the Fleming Flagship and Save & Prosper Groups, Head of Global Portfolios Group at Flemings and CEO of Ark Asset Management Ltd. She specialised in running portfolios investing in the financial services sector. She lectures in global business ethics at King’s College and Responsible Banking at Madrid, and she is a Director of Temple Bar Investment Trust plc.
Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli
Lecturer
Dr Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli is a Lecturer at The Dickson Poon School of Law. Before joining King's College London in August 2017, she was Philomathia Post-doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge. Leslie-Anne is a public international lawyer, with expertise in international environmental law. Leslie-Anne's research also looks at the energy transition to a low-carbon economy from an international and comparative law perspective. She is also committed to highlighting the role of law in the design of energy policies, including the importance of participatory mechanisms to build inclusive energy systems. Leslie-Anne is a Fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), and Assistant Editor for the Transnational Environmental Law journal (CUP). She is the Project Leader of the Platform on International Energy Governance, a network of excellence that fosters the conduct of research in unexplored areas of international energy governance.
Liliane Mouan
Senior Research Fellow
Liliane Mouan is Senior Research Fellow at the Transnational Law Institute, King's College London, and Programme Coordinator for the King’s Transnational Law Summit 2018. Her research focuses on the regulation and governance of global commodity and manufacturing supply chains. She is currently coordinating a global research project on this topic at The Transnational Law Institute and, prior to this, worked as a researcher on the Business and Human Rights Due Diligence Project carried out by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in partnership with the law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. Liliane holds an LL.M in International Law and Human Rights and a PhD in International Studies and Social Science, both from Coventry University.
Lisa McKenzie
Lecturer in Sociological Practice
Middlesex University and Inequalities Institute LSE
Liz Campbell
Professor of Criminal Law
Liz Campbell is a Professor of Criminal Law at Durham Law School and convenor of the Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice; as well as an adjunct professor at Queensland University of Technology School of Justice. Professor Campbell's research looks at how the criminal law is deployed to address serious crime, particularly how legal definitions are constructed, and how the politics of definitions determines and affects criminal law responses. Her research is increasingly concerned with the interfaces between criminal law and regulation, and between criminal and (ostensibly) legal behaviour.
Lorenzo Cotula
Principal Researcher
Lorenzo Cotula is an expert in law and development. He works on international investment law, human rights, land rights and legal issues related to "land grabbing", as well as the political economy of natural resource investments. He leads IIED's work on Legal Tools for Citizen Empowerment – a collaborative initiative to strengthen local rights and voices in natural resource investments. He has extensive experience in low-income countries in Africa and Asia. His areas of expertise include: human rights, international investment law, and "land grabbing", law and political economy in natural resource investments. He is currently working as a lead on Legal Tools for Citizen Empowerment – a collaborative initiative to strengthen local rights and voices in natural resource investments; rethinking investment treaties, laws and contracts; accountability in investment chains, legal and social accountability tools in agricultural investments; legal empowerment work, and international lesson sharing among legal empowerment practitioners.
Louise Haagh
Reader, Politics
Louise Haagh is a Reader at the Politics Department of the University of York, where she took up a lectureship in 2001. She holds a doctorate in Politics from St. Antony's College, Oxford University, and held a British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at St. Antony's from 1998 till 2001. Louise writes about problems relating to the democratisation of human development, economic justice, modalities of institutional change, and social transformation. She is also know for her advocacy for a broader humanist, democratic defence of basic income that sets this reform in the context of a human development perspective on freedom and the problem of democratisation of the public sphere. She has three books forthcoming with Palgrave, Polity, and Routledge on this topic.
Malcolm Harper
Emeritus Professor
Malika Booker
Poet & Writer
Malika Booker is an international writer whose work is steeped in anthropological research methodology and rooted in storytelling. Her writing spans poetry, theatre, monologue, installation, and education. Clients and organisations she has worked with include Arts Council England, BBC, British Council, Wellcome Trust, National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Arvon, and Hampton Court Palace.
Manuel Wörsdörfer
Lecturer
Manuel Wörsdörfer is an Instructor at the Murdough Center for Engineering Professionalism and National Institute for Engineering Ethics, Texas Tech University, and former Research Fellow/Privatdozent, Cluster of Excellence, 'The Formation of Normative Orders' and Centre for Business Ethics, Goethe University, Frankfurt (2015-2016). His research areas, on which he has published widely, include: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)/Corporate Citizenship; Sustainable Finance; Transnational Legal Theory; Big Data Ethics; Climate Change Research and Climate Justice. He is an active participant in industry collaborations and a reviewer for the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, the Business and Professional Ethics Journal, and the Journal of the History of Economic Thought.
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Mark Barenberg
Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law
Mark Gibney
Professor of Political Science
Marta Llonch
Research Assistant
Marta Llonch is a Programme Assistant for the European Migration and Diversity Programme at the European Policy Centre (EPC). She holds an LLM in Transnational Law from King's College London, specializing in Migration and Human Rights. Before joining the EPC, Marta worked as a Trainee at the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants and as a volunteer lawyer for refugees in Greece.
Martin Baldwin-Edwards
Senior Fellow
Martin Baldwin-Edwards is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Mediterranean Migration Observatory, Panteion University, Athens, and a Research Associate of the International Centre for Migration Policy Development, Vienna. He was scientific co-ordinator in 2007/8 of the ICMPD REGINE study for the European Commission DG Justice on regularisations in the EU and for 2007-9 was the country expert on Greece and Cyprus in the ICMPD PROMINSTAT project on migration statistics. In recent years, he has served as a consultant or advisor on migration issues in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Balkan regions for UNDP, the European Commission training seminars for diplomats (Diplomatic Academy, Malta), the East-West Institute in Brussels, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Global Commission on International Migration (GCIM), the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the governments of Greece, Spain and Italy.
Mary Footer
Professor of International Economic Law
Professor Footer is a Professor of International Economic Law at the University of Nottingham. Professor Footer's research and teaching expertise lies in the fields of public international law and international economic law, including WTO law, law and development, international investment law and international financial and monetary law, food security, and business & human rights. Most recently, she was the co-investigator on a NWO (Dutch Scientific Research Council) SRoL (Security and the Rule of Law) project with SOMO and Inkrispena on Security of transnational flows of natural resources; and co-ordinator for University of Nottingham, Co-supervisor of two Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) and Ethical Lead for the Consortium on Horizon 2020 MSCA Innovative Training Network on the Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Mary Mellor
Emeritus Professor
Mary Mellor is Emeritus Professor at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne UK and founding Chair of its Sustainable Cities Research Institute. She is also a founding member of the World Economics Association. Mellor has a longstanding interest in alternative, green and feminist economics and has published extensively on money and finance, social economics, financial exclusion, co-operation and sustainable cities. Her books include The Future of Money: From Financial Crisis to Public Resource (2010), The Politics of Money: Towards Sustainability and Economic Democracy (2002) and Feminism and Ecology (1997). She has addressed audiences in many parts of the world on ecofeminism, work and environment, including Canada, USA, Japan, Costa Rica, Germany and Malta and her work has been translated into many languages. Mellor argues that ecofeminism has a major contribution to make to understanding the current destructive relationship between humanity and nonhuman nature. She describes her work as ecofeminist political economy, which sees womenŐs work and lives as standing at the intersection of destructive economies and the natural world. According to her, an understanding of ecofeminist political economy can strengthen green economics.
Max Haiven
Canada Research Chair in Culture, Media & Social Justice
Max Haiven is Canada Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice at Lakehead University in Northwest Ontario and director of the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL). He writes articles for both academic and general audiences and is the author of the books Crises of Imagination, Crises of Power: Capitalism, Creativity and the Commons, The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity (with Alex Khasnabish) and Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life. He is currently working on a book titled Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization.
Maxine Beneba Clarke
Independent Writer
Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Afro-Caribbean Australian writer and slam poet. Her collection of short stories Foreign Soil won the 2013 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award, the 2015 ABIA for Best Literary Fiction, the 2015 Indie Award for Best Debut Fiction, and was shortlisted for the 2015 Stella Prize. Her memoir The Hate Race (2016) won the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award, and her poetry collection Carrying The World won the 2017 Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry. Maxine's picture book The Patchwork Bike (2016) is illustrated by Melbourne artist Van Thanh Rudd, and won the Crichton Award for Children's Book Illustration. Maxine is a contributor to The Saturday Paper, an Australian weekly newspaper providing analysis of news and cultural affairs from Australia's most prominent critical voices.
Maxine Burkett
Professor of Law
Maxine Burkett is a Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law and a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. At Richardson, she teaches Climate Change Law and Policy, Torts, Ocean and Coastal Law, and International Law.
She has written extensively in diverse areas of climate change law with a particular focus on climate justice—exploring policy responses to climate change’s impacts on vulnerable communities in the United States and globally. Professor Burkett has presented her research on the law and policy of climate change throughout the United States and in West Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean. She has been cited in numerous news and policy outlets, including BBC Radio, the New York Times, the International Business Times, and Nature Climate Change.
In 2010, Burkett served as the Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics at the Wayne Morse Center, University of Oregon, for the Center’s “Climate Ethics and Climate Equity” theme of inquiry. Other Wayne Morse Chairs include Charles Ogletree, Jr., Vandana Shiva, Barbara Ehrenreich, and former Senator Russ Feingold. Burkett is the youngest recipient of the Chair.
From 2009-2012, Professor Burkett also served as the inaugural Director of the Center for Island Climate Adaptation and Policy (ICAP). As the Director of ICAP, she led numerous projects to address climate change policy and planning for island communities globally. She directed the completion of several adaptation related policy documents, outreach and education programs, and decision-maker support efforts for Hawai‘i and other Pacific Island nations.
Professor Burkett attended Williams College, which awarded her the Bicentennial Medal for Distinguished Achievement in 2016. She also attended Exeter College, Oxford University and received her law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. She served as a law clerk for The Honorable Susan Illston of the United States District Court, Northern District of California. She was a White House Intern, an Omidyar Fellow, a 2016 recipient of Pacific Business News’ 40 Under 40 award, and a 2017 awardee of Hawaii Business Magazine’s 20 for the Next 20. Prior to her appointment at the University of Hawai‘i, Professor Burkett taught at the University of Colorado Law School.
Megan Bowman
Co-founder & Head
Meike Ziervogel
Publisher and Author
Meike is a novelist and publisher. She grew up in northern Germany and came to London in 1986 to study Arabic language and literature. She has worked as a journalist for Reuters in London and Agence France Presse in Paris. In 2008 she founded Peirene Press. In 2012 Meike was voted as one of Britain’s 100 most innovative and influential people in the creative and media industries by the Time Out and Hospital Club hClub100 list. Meike is the author of four novels, all published by Salt in the UK. She is currently working on her fifth novel.
Melba Kurman
Author
Melba Kurman is an author focusing on technology and its impact on our daily lives and economy. She is particularly interested in driverless cars, artificial intelligence, and 3D printing. Before her writing career, she worked as a product manager and analyst at Microsoft and helped Cornell University market its patent portfolio to the commercial marketplace.
Michael Bach
Managing Director
Michael Bach is the Managing Director of IRIS (Institute for Research and Development on Inclusion and Society). He has undertaken research and development in Canada and internationally on ways to advance the full inclusion and human rights of persons with intellectual disabilities. His publications cover disability theory, policy and practice in a range of areas including legal capacity, education, employment, and funding and delivery of community-based services. He holds a PhD in Sociology and Equity Studies from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. His dissertation focuses on developing a more inclusive theory of personhood on which to challenge the usual equation between intellectual disability and legal incapacity. Michael is a recipient of an Open Society Foundations Fellowship for 2014-15, to continue his international comparative research on the right to legal capacity for people with significant intellectual and cognitive disabilities.
Miriam Schader
Senior Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious & Ethnic Diversity
Miriam Schader
Senior Research Fellow
Miriam Schader
Senior Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious & Ethnic Diversity
Miriam Schader
Senior Research Fellow
Monica Massari
Associate Professor
Monica Massari is currently Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department of Political Science of the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, where she teaches Sociology and is the Coordinator of the Master 'Analysis of Organised Crime Phenomena and Strategies Aimed at the Social Reuse of Assets Seized to Organised Crime'. Before joining the academia, she worked as researcher at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime-UNODC, in Vienna, within the Global Programme on Transnational Organised Crime, and as independent consultant for various international organisations and NGOs. She is member of the International Sociological Association-ISA, the European Sociological Association-ESA and the Italian Sociological Association-AIS. In 2015 she was also elected member of the Executive Committee of the European Sociological Association-ESA. She is currently Principal Investigator of a major research project devoted to the analysis of various forms of organised violence in the area of Naples, which is based at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy.
Müge Gürsoy Sökmen
Co-founder, Commissioning Editor
Muhammad Azeem
Assistant Professor
Nadine El-Enany
Senior Lecturer
Dr Nadine El-Enany joined Birkbeck as Lecturer in Law in 2013. Between 2010 and 2013 she lectured at Brunel University, London where she also co-directed the Brunel Human Rights Centre. After graduating with an LLB in 2006 from the London School of Economics, she completed her doctoral thesis in the field of EU and UK refugee law at the European University Institute, Florence. She has taught EU law at the London School of Economics, where she is presently a research fellow in the Migration Studies Unit. She was Guest Lecturer in European and Public Law on the London School of Economics Executive Education programme in May 2010. Nadine is currently Recent Developments Editor for the International Human Rights Law Review. Nadine was selected to join the Runnymede Trust Race Equality Forum in 2012 and is a member of the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights. She is on the organising committee of the Defend the Right to Protest campaign and has published several comment pieces in The Guardian.
Nandita Sharma
Associate Professor
Navneet Grewal
Senior Attorney
Navneet Grewal is a senior attorney at the Western Center on Law & Poverty. She works to ensure that Californians with the lowest incomes have access to safe, affordable homes. She litigates cases with statewide impact and advocates for better housing policies. She has trained numerous housing attorneys and has contributed to many publications. Prior to joining Western Center, Navneet worked at the National Housing Law Project, advocating for the rights of tenants in federal housing programs. Ms. Grewal serves on the Board of Directors for Housing California and the Steering Committee of the State Bar's Fair Housing and Public Accommodations Section.
Neil Gunningham
Professor
School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University & RegNet
Neil Gunningham
Professor
Neil Gunningham is a lawyer and interdisciplinary social scientist who specialises in safety, health and environmental regulation. He is a Professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at The Australian National University. He has degrees in law and criminology from Sheffield University and holds a PhD from the Australian National University. Although initially trained in law as a Barrister and Solicitor, his subsequent post-graduate work was in interdisciplinary social science, and for the last thirty years he has applied that training principally in the areas of safety, health and environment, with a focus on regulation and governance. He was a Professor in the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Co-Director of the National Research Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, Foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Environmental Law (all at the ANU), and Visiting and Senior Fulbright Scholar at UC Berkeley. His current research is on fossil fuel divestment and role of financial markets in climate change mitigation.
Nick Flynn
Legal Director
Nick Flynn is the campaign and legal director of the 40-million-member campaign network Avaaz. He is an environmental lawyer who previously worked at Weil Gotshal & Manges, as head of the firm's London pro bono and CSR program. He studied law at the University of Oxford and completed an MSc in Sustainability and Responsibility from Ashridge Business School. Flynn has been a solicitor for 18 years and is involved in several development charities. He is a founder and chair of the Legal Response Initiative, a charity providing legal support to developing countries participating in the U.N. climate change negotiations; a founder and trustee of Advocates for International Development (A4ID), a trustee of the Environmental Law Foundation, of GlobalGiving, as well as a member of the advisory council of Legal Action Worldwide. He is particularly interested in the role of law in environmental, climate and human rights issues.
Nick Robins
Co-Director
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System
Nick Robins
Co-Director
Nick Robins is co-director of the UNEP Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System. The Inquiry aims to advance policy options that align the financial system with long-term sustainable development. Nick Robins has over 25 years' experience in the policy, research and financial dimensions of sustainable development. Before joining UNEP, he was Head of the Climate Change Centre of Excellence at HSBC in London from 2007 to 2014, where he produced investment research on issues such as clean tech and climate risk. Mr. Robins has produced numerous reports on sustainability, corporate and financial issues, including Managing the Environment: the Greening of European Business (1990), and Sustainable Investing: the Art of Long-Term Performance (with Cary Krosinsky, 2008). He has had articles published by the Financial Times, The Guardian, Huffington Post and Resurgence. Nick is a founding member of the City of London's Green Finance Initiative, is a visiting fellow with the Grantham Research Institute at London School of Economics.
Nicolás Marcelo Perrone
Assistant Professor of International Law
Nicolás M. Perrone joined Durham Law School as Lecturer in Law in September 2016. Nicolás works in the field of international economic law, specialising in foreign investment law and policy. He has worked and consulted for the Argentine and Ecuadorian governments, UNCTAD and the OECD. Nicolás's research looks at the relational implications of the international investment regime, international investment treaties and investment arbitration. Nicolás is a junior faculty member of the Institute for Global Law and Policy based at Harvard Law School, where he has convened writing workshops and taught in the International Economic Law and Regulation Stream. He is also a Visiting Faculty Member of the International University College of Turin, a Visiting Professor at Externado University (Colombia), and a Fellow of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies on Industrial and Economic Law at the University of Buenos Aires.
Nikesh Shukla
Author
Nikesh Shukla is a writer. His debut novel, 'Coconut Unlimited', was published by Quartet Books and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2010 and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2011. His second novel, Meatspace, was published by The Friday Project. Like Douglas Coupland's Generation X', according to the Guardian, 'this novel captures a cultural moment.' It's been lauded by the New Statesman, BBC Radio 4, the Independent on Sunday, and the Daily Mail. In 2014 he wrote Two Dosas, an award-winning short film based on his short story. His Channel 4 Comedy Lab Kabadasses aired on E4 and Channel 4 in 2011. He edited the acclaimed anthology The Good Immigrant, published in 2016. Nikesh has been commissioned by Little House Productions to write a screenplay and is developing new ideas for television.
Niklas Schenck
Independent Filmmaker & Journalist
Niklas Schenck is an independent journalist currently based in Kabul, Afghanistan and Hamburg, Germany. He studied geography and environmental geochemistry at Heidelberg University and was trained at the Henri-Nannen School of Journalism in Germany. His first documentary for public television, 'Geheimer Krieg' ('Secret Wars'), detailed Germany's involvement in US drone strikes in Somalia, and was nominated for the prestigious Grimme Awards. Niklas was honoured as Germany's Journalist of the Year in 2012.
Noah Goodall
Research Scientist
Dr Noah Goodall is a Research Scientist at the Virginia Transportation Research Council, a partnership between the Virginia Department of Transportation and the University of Virginia. His interests are in traffic operations, intelligent transportation systems, and vehicle communication and automation.
Octavio Ferraz
Reader
Dr Octavio Ferraz is a Reader in Transnational Law at the Dickson Pon School of Law, King's College, London. Before joining King's he was a senior research officer to the UN special rapporteur for the right to health, Professor Paul Hunt, at the University of Essex, and then moved to Warwick Law School, where he was an Assistant and then an Associate Professor for 8 years. Before moving to academia, he practiced law in Sao Paulo, Brazil, mostly in the fields of corporate public law and medical law for over ten years. He is still a member of the Brazilian Bar and contributes regularly to the Brazilian press.
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Olumide Popoola
Writer & Author
Olumide Popoola is a London-based Nigerian German writer and speaker who presents internationally. Her publications include fiction, critical essays (often on practice-led research and the novel), hybrid pieces and poetry. The scope of her work concerns critical investigation into the 'in-between' of culture, language and public space where a, sometimes uncomfortable, look at complexity is needed. Olumide holds a PhD in Creative Writing, a MA in Creative Writing and a BSc in Ayurvedic Medicine. She lectures creative writing.
Omar Al-Ghazzi
Assistant Professor
Dr Omar Al-Ghazzi is Assistant Professor in the LSE Department of Medai and Communications. Dr Al-Ghazzi's expertise is in global communication and comparative journalism, with a focus on digital activism and collective memory in the Middle East and North Africa. Before joining LSE, he was a lecturer (assistant professor) at the University of Sheffield's Department of Journalism. A former Fulbright scholar, Dr Al-Ghazzi comes from a journalism professional background. He has previously worked as a reporter for Al-Hayat Arabic daily and as a media analyst at BBC Monitoring.
Omnia Khalil
Teaching Fellow & Doctoral Candidate
Peer Zumbansen
Professor of Transnational Law & Director
The Dickson Poon Transnational Law Institute
Peer Zumbansen
Professor of Transnational Law & Director
Professor Zumbansen joined The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London in July 2014 as the inaugural Professor of Transnational Law and founding director of the Dickson Poon Transnational Law Institute. He was, from 2000-2013, the founding co-editor in chief of the German Law Journal and has been, since 2012, the editor in chief of Transnational Legal Theory. Professor Zumbansen’s research is focused on private law theory, comparative and transnational law. One of his longstanding research interests has been in legal education and legal curriculum reform, with a particular emphasis on the enhancement of a more foundational as well as practice-oriented law training. Professor Zumbansen is also the Chair of the KTLS18 programme committee.
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Penelope Andrews
Dean & Professor
Penelope Andrews is Dean of the Faculty of Law at The University of Cape Town (as of January 2016). Professor Andrews earned her BA in 1980 (majoring in Economic History; Comparative African Government and Administration) and her LLB in 1982 from the then-University of Natal in Durban. In 1984 she received an LLM from Columbia University School of Law in New York. She has published on international human rights law, comparative constitutional law, gender and racial equality, and the judiciary. She began her teaching career more than two decades ago at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. She has been tenured at four law schools (one in Australia and three in the USA) and has served on significant law school committees and the boards of public interest legal organisations as well as on business councils. She has been a member of and has chaired several accreditation site teams for the American Bar Association's section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. She is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Recently, her research has focused on strategies for women's rights initiatives.
Penelope Kyritsis
Assistant Managing Editor
Peter Vajda
Senior Environmental Expert
A lawyer by training with a master’s degree in environmental law, Peter has always been involved in issues related to environment, both from legal and technical aspects.Straight after graduation from the Faculty of Law at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), he took up duties at the national environmental agency’s local office in Budapest.
Between September 2007 and August 2011, Peter was working as a seconded national expert at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Environment.As legal adviser in the unit responsible for EU legislation concerning industrial emissions, he was working on various files both from legislative and implementation aspects, including, inter alia, the IPPC (2008/1/EC), Large Combustion Plants (2001/80/EC), Waste Incineration (2000/76/EC), National Emission Ceilings (2001/81/EC) and Seveso II (96/82/EC) Directives.In this position, he has also been heavily involved in the adoption process of the Industrial Emissions Directive (2010/75/EC).
In late 2011, Peter worked as legal adviser in the Office of the Director-General in DG Climate Action and in March 2012, he took up duties as environmental expert at the Energy Community Secretariat in Vienna.In his current position, his geographical focus covers South East Europe, in particular the Western Balkans countries as well as Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia.The main activities involve monitoring the implementation of EU legislation on Environmental Impact Assessment (2011/92/EU), Sulphur Content of Liquid Fuels (1999/32/EC), Large Combustion Plants (2001/80/EC) and Industrial Emissions (2010/75/EU) in the Contracting Parties of the Energy Community Treaty.
Philip Brey
Professor in Ethics of Technology
Philip Brey (PhD, University of California, San Diego, 1995) is Professor of philosophy of technology at the Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, the Netherlands. He is scientific director of the 4TU. Centre for Ethics and Technology of the Universities of Twente, Delft, Eindhoven and Wageningen, and president of the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology. He is on the editorial board of eleven leading journals and book series in his field, and has led a NWO Vici project for outstanding researchers on new media and the quality of life, resulting in over 100 peer-reviewed publications, and a European Union FP7 project, SATORI. He currently leads a European Union Horizon 2020 project, SIENNA on the ethical and human rights aspects of emerging technologies. His research focuses on ethical aspects of emerging technologies, with a particular focus on information technology, robotics, biomedical technology and environmental technologies.
Philip Mader
Research Fellow
Phillip Paiement
Assistant Professor
Priya Gupta
Visiting Professor of Law
Priya S. Gupta is a Visiting Professor at King’s College London and Affiliated Faculty at the Transnational Law Institute. Her research is in property law and theory, law & development, and critical legal theory. She is currently Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the General LL.M. Program at Southwestern Law School, where she teaches Property, Public International Law, Law & Development, and Race & the Law.
Quhramaana Kakar
Founding Director
Rafaela Pascoal
Researcher
Robby Berloznik
Project Director G-STIC & member UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee (TEC)
Flemish Institute for Technological Research
Robby Berloznik
Project Director G-STIC & member UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee (TEC)
Robert Berloznik is a member of the Technology Executive Committee of the TT:Clear, the UNFCCC home for climate technology. He is the Director of the Programme of the Global Science Technology Innovation Conferences (G-STIC) and Research Coordinator Technology and Society at VITO. He was a lecturer at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, teaching 'Science, Technology and Society' at the Faculty of Science and Bio-engineering Sciences, and also the Director of the Flemish Institute Society and Technology (IST).
Robert Hockett
Edward Cornell Professor of Law
Robert C Hockett is the Edward Cornell Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. His principal teaching, research, and writing interests lie in the fields of organisational, financial, and monetary law and economics in both their positive and normative, as well as their national and transnational, dimensions. His guiding concern in these fields is with the legal and institutional prerequisites to a just, prosperous, and sustainable economic order. A Fellow of the Century Foundation and regular commissioned author for the New America Foundation, Hockett also does regular consulting work for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the International Monetary Fund, Americans for Financial Reform, the 'Occupy' Cooperative, and a number of federal and state legislators and local governments.
Robert Lechler
Senior Vice President
Robert McLeman
Associate Professor, Geography & Environmental Studies
Robert McLeman is Associate Professor, Department of Geography & Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada. He specializes in research on the human dimensions of environmental change, with particular attention to the relationship between environment and human migration; community adaptation to climatic variability and change; and, fostering citizen participation in environmental science. A former Canadian foreign service officer, Dr McLeman has advised UN agencies, the World Bank, and governments in Canada, the US, and Europe on issues related to climate change, migration, and security. He has written numerous scholarly articles on environmental migration, and is the author of the book 'Climate and Human Migration' published by Cambridge University Press (2014).
Robin Bronen
Executive Director
Robin Bronen is a human rights attorney, a senior research scientist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, as well as co-founder and Executive Director of the Alaska Institute for Justice, a non-governmental organization that is the only immigration legal service provider in Alaska. The Alaska Institute for Justice also serves as a research and policy institute focused on climate and social justice issues. Robin Bronen has been researching and working with communities forced to relocate because of climate change since 2007. Her research has been publicized by CNN and the Guardian, among others. She has worked with the White House Council on Environmental Quality to implement President Obama's Climate Change Task Force recommendation to address climate displacement as well as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Climate Change Office. In 2007, she received the Robert Hickerson Public Service award by the Alaska Bar Association and in 2012, the International Soroptimist's Advancing the Rights of Women award. Victims for Justice awarded her the Advocacy award in 2014.
Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes
Researcher
Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes is a lawyer, with a Master's (DEA) in the sociology of development from the University Paris I (IEDES) and a PhD in economics from Amiens University. He was a Professor and now a Professor Emeritus at the National University of Colombia and has been a visiting professor at several universities. He was an assistant magistrate and temporary replacement at the Constitutional Court and is co-judge of that Court and of the Council of State. He is a member of the International Commission of Jurists and the United Nations ESCR Committee (2015-2018). He is also a columnist for El Espectador. Rodrigo was Director of Dejusticia and is currently coordinator of the Drug Policy Line. His areas of interest are especially ESCR, transitional justice, judicial system and drug policy. He has published several books and articles on these issues, as author or co-author.
Roger Brownsword
Professor of Law
Roger Brownsword is Professor of Law at King's College London, where he was the founding director of TELOS (a research centre that focuses on technology, ethics, law and society), an honorary professor at the University of Sheffield, and a visiting professor at Singapore Management University. He has published more than a dozen books in the area of regulation and technology and is currently co-editing the 'Cambridge Handbook on Human Dignity'. He is also currently co-editing the 'Oxford Handbook on Law, Regulation and Technology'. Professor Brownsword has acted as a specialist adviser to parliamentary committees dealing with stems cells and hybrid embryos. From 2004-2010, he was a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics; and, currently, he is Chair of the Ethics and Governance Council of UK Biobank.
Ronja von Wurmb-Seibel
Filmmaker & Author
Ronja von Wurmb-Seibel is an independent journalist based in Hamburg and Kabul. 2017 saw the release of her film, True Warriors (made in collaboration with journalist partner Niklas Schenck), about an attack on a theatre in Kabul by a 16-year-old Taliban suicide bomber. Ronja is the author of 'Ausgerechnet Kabul' ('Kabul, of All Places') - an account of her time in Afghanistan which provides an insider's perspective on the country beyond the customary topics: the burqa, the Taliban, and the role of the German Army. Ronja reports for news magazines and produces documentaries for national and international broadcasters. Until 2013 she worked as editor for the political section of the German weekly Die Zeit.
Rose-Liza Eisma Osorio
Professor
Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio is a lecturer at the University of Cebu in the Philippines, teaching environmental law, public and private law, legal research and writing, and human rights law. At the same time, she is the Faculty Adviser and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Research in Law and Policy. She is also one of the faculty members who acts as official representative to the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, and one of the member of IUCN's World Commission on Environmental Law. Her expertise is focused on the fields of governance, institutional development, monitoring and evaluation, environmental policy and advocacy, and technical legal support for natural resource conservation. Furthermore, Eisma-Osorio is one of the founders and managing trustee of the Philippine Earth Justice Center, which has filed several environmental cases in the Philippines, including the landmark decision of the Supreme Court in Resident Marine Mammals and Dolphins v. Reyes, where she was one of the two lawyers who were recognised as the stewards of the dolphins and whales of Tanon Strait Protected Seascape in Central Philippines against illegal oil exploration in a protected seascape.
Rukmini Sen
Associate Professor
Rukmini Sen is an Assistant Professor at the Liberal Studies Department, Ambedkar University, Delhi. A member of the Indian Sociological Society and the Law and Social Science Research Network, she holds a PhD from the University of Calcutta and her teaching and research interests lie in the intersection between sociology, law, policy making, social movements and gender studies. Her work on the relationship of academia and activism has been developed through direct participation in women's groups in Kolkata. Between 2008 and 2011, Dr Sen was Joint Secretary of the Indian Association for Women's Studies. In 2011, she served as an expert panel member for the National Commission for Women in New Delhi, reviewing gendered dimensions of law and policy. She is a trained dancer.
Ryan Abbott
Professor of Law & Health Sciences
Ryan Abbott is professor of law and health sciences at the University of Surrey. He is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine (M.D.) and the Yale Law School (J.D.), as well as a Summa Cum Laude graduate from Emperor's College (M.T.O.M.) and a Summa Cum Laude graduate from University of California, Los Angeles (B.S.). He is a licensed and board certified physician, attorney, and acupuncturist in the United States, as well as a solicitor (non-practicing) in England. He has worked as General Counsel and Medical Director of a mid-stage biotechnology company and has been Of Counsel at law firms where he specialized in intellectual property litigation and transactional matters for pharmaceutical and medical device clients. He has served as a consultant for international organizations, academic institutions and non-profit enterprises including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Professor Abbott has also worked as an expert witness which has included testifying in U.S. federal court. His legal research focuses on the impact of autonomous machines and technological advances, intellectual property issues in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, and the use of informational regulation and market-based mechanisms by health regulatory agencies.
