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Ufuk Gunes Bebek

Assistant Professor in Economics, University of Birmingham
Ufuk Gunes Bebek is an applied economist whose research is primarily focused on international trade and macroeconomic aspects of international trade. He joined the University of Birmingham's Department of Economics in 2014 and has been in his current position as Assistant Professor in Economics since 2017.

His current research focuses on balance-of-payments constrained growth models incorporating reserve currency as a primary constraint on reserve currency providers’ growth. He is also leading the Department’s membership to the Alliance of Economics and Management Education, promoting knowledge exchange, and cultivating inter-disciplinary pedagogy culture between Birmingham and other member institutions.

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Ugljesa Grusic

Associate Professor of Private International Law, UCL
Dr Grusic's research covers a range of issues in the field of private international law. His research has focused on the European private international law of employment and on the interplay between private international law and human rights, particularly on the private international law issues raised by tortious claims arising out of the external exercise of British executive authority and civil claims against multinational enterprises for overseas human rights violations. His research also covers all core areas of private international law, including jurisdiction, choice of law and recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. His other research interests include foreign relations law, civil remedies for human rights violations in comparative law, unjust enrichment in private international law, the regulatory function of private international law and international commercial arbitration, particularly the issues of arbitral jurisdiction, choice of law and the relationship between domestic courts and arbitral tribunals.

Dr Grusic is the author The European Private International Law of Employment (CUP 2015) and Torts in Foreign Relations (OUP, forthcoming in 2023), a co-author of Cheshire, North & Fawcett: Private International Law (15th edition, OUP 2017) and a co-editor of Civil Remedies and Human Rights in Flux (Bloomsbury 2022). His research has also been published in internationally leading journals and edited books, including the Modern Law Review, the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, the Yearbook of European Law, the Journal of Private International Law and Revue critique de droit international privé.

Dr Grusic's research has been cited by Advocates General of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the New Zealand Supreme Court. He was awarded the 2015 American Society of International Law's Private International Law Interest Group (PILIG) prize for the manuscript of his book The European Private International Law of Employment (CUP 2015) and the inaugural 2012 ICLQ Young Scholar Prize for his article 'Jurisdiction in Employment Matters under Brussels I: A Reassessment' (2012) 61(1) ICLQ 91-126. He has held visiting positions at the University of Osaka, Japan, Deakin University, Australia and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany. He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Oak Project on Civil Liability for Human Rights Violations at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford. He regularly presents his work at academic conferences and seminars around the world.

Dr Grusic has been consulted on private international law issues by European Union bodies, government departments and legal practitioners and has served as an advisor and an expert witness in court and arbitral proceedings, including before the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes.

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Ulrich Speidel

Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Auckland
Areas of Expertise: Data communications, information theory, satellite Internet, satellite communication, network measurement, codes, data compression, signal processing, network coding, web applications, web security.

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Ulrike Hohmann

Associate Professor in Early Childhood Studies, University of Plymouth
I work as Associate Professor in Early Childhood Studies at the University of Plymouth. I hold the German qualification of 'Staatlich Anerkannte Erzieherin', which qualifies me to work with all children outside of school. Therefor my expertise is related to social pedagogy. When my life took me to England, I studied a BA (Hons) in Social Policy at the University of Newcastle and wrote my PhD on the socio-economic experience of childminders in England and in Germany.
My interest in social policy related to young children and families continues. Comparative research allows us to look through different lenses and develop new ideas. Living in different countries, speaking different languages always helps to make the familiar strange and take a closer look.

My Orcid link is https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7127-117X
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/ulrike-hohmann

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Uma Kollamparambil

I joined the School of Economics and Business Science (SEBS) in 2006 and have been engaged in teaching econometrics at both under-grad and post-grad levels. I also offer a Masters level course on Development Economics. I am currently the Course-Coordinator of the Masters course in Economics at SEBS. My research interests are in Development economics and International Capital Flows.

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Umerdad Khudadad

PhD Student, School of Human Kinetics, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
I am a PhD student and research assistant in the School of Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa. My research focuses on injury prevention in refugees and immigrants.

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Ummul Ruthbah

Senior Research Fellow

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Una Rey

Senior Industry Affiliate, RMIT University
Una Rey completed a BA in painting at Charles Darwin University 1995
and a PhD at The University of Newcastle 2009 with a focus on cross-cultural narratives in Australian landscape painting.
Research and academic teaching strengths include Australian contemporary art and art history, with a focus on Indigenous and intercultural practice and cross-cultural exchange; arts writing, journalism, curatorial practices and arts publishing. In 2021 Rey took up the role of Editor at Artlink magazine.

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Uncle Mike Ross

Olkola elder and Chairman of the Olkola Aboriginal Corporation, Indigenous Knowledge
Olkola man, Mike Ross has been at the vanguard of land rights for the people of Cape York for the last 3 decades. At an early age Mike was anointed by his elders to be the person to lead them in an emerging era of land rights. Since then, Mike has dedicated his life to securing land rights and the protection of culture and country for his people and the people of Cape York. A sincere spokesperson, a gentleman and a distinguished bushman, Mike is a leader who goes about his business with an understated eloquence that mandates respect from the corridors of parliament in Canberra to the cattle-yards of Cape York. Mike has spent considerable time as a director and as Chairperson of the Cape York Land Council. He is also currently the Chairperson of the Olkola Aboriginal Corporation and has been for more than a decade. Mike is currently an applicant on one of the largest native title claims in Australia, the United Cape York Claim, which covers all unclaimed and undetermined areas of Cape York.

After leading a Traditional Owner negotiation team in years of negotiations with the Queensland Government, in December 2014, this resulted one of the largest transfers of Aboriginal freehold land in Australia’s history. This has established the Olkola People as the largest private landholder managing 869,822 hectares in Cape York and joint management partners with Queensland Parks in the largest new protected area in Queensland and allowed the Olkola People to develop one of the largest, and most successful savannah burning carbon abatement projects in Australia. Mike Has laid the foundations for his people, the Olkola People, and the people of Cape York, to reconnect to country and have sustainable livelihoods on country going into the future.

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Upasana Gitanjali Singh

Senior Lecturer, Information Systems and Technology, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Dr Upasana Singh is a senior lecturer in the Discipline of Information Systems and Technology at the University of KwaZulu Natal, Westville Campus, in Durban South Africa. She has a keen interest in Technology in Education and Sustainable IT practices. Her PhD was on electronic assessment for which she developed and evaluated an online interactive tool to evaluate e-assessment systems, named e-SEAT. She successfully implemented the first formative e-assessment in the School of MIG at UKZN in 2014. In 2014, she received 2 research awards, one from the NRF and the other from UKZN, CLMS Teaching and Learning Unit. She served as panel reviewer for the NRFs Joint Collaboration applications in 2015 and 2016.

Joint academic collaboration is one of her fortes having secured 5 MoUs with international universities. This has provided her with the platform to share her knowledge as invited guest speaker to local and international conferences in South Africa, India and Mauritius. She expanded this collaboration interest by volunteering as local conference co-ordinator for the 3rd IEEE ICACCE conference, held in Durban in 2016; the joint multidisciplinary e-MIG Conferences in Mauritius 2017 & 2019; a committee member for the AAE Summer School in France 2017; Program Chair for IFCTN held by Chandigarh University, in partnership with UKZN in 2018, and the IEEE icABCD conferences in Durban 2018 & 2019. In 2017 she was selected to participate in the “Joint Expertise Programme” at Chemnitz Technical University in Germany; and selected to represent UKZN at MoodleMoot Australia in Sydney.

Her research profile includes 9 Journal articles and 31 conference papers focusing on topics related to Technology in Education, e-Assessment, AI, Digital Marketing and Sustainability. As a young, emerging academic, her supervision profile includes over 20 Hons, 3 Masters and 2 PhD students.

She also has a keen interest in joint curriculum development with International Higher Education Institutions. In 2018 she was nominated on a 2 year training program in “Teaching Advancement in Universities” (TAU). She graduated as a TAU fellow in 2019.

Dr Singh is an advocate of women empowerment and has organised 2 successful events on Women in STEM at high schools in Durban. These events have attracted highly acclaimed female academics and graduates to share their experiences and motivate over 200 female high school learners to adopt technology-based careers. Through her efforts she has secured bursaries for some of these female learners to pursue a career in Engineering.

She is an active volunteer for the IEEE, South Africa, and has been recognised for her contribution to the organization in 2018.

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Ursula Keller

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Ursula Keller has been a tenured professor of physics at ETH Zurich since 1993 (www.ulp.ethz.ch) and served as a director of the Swiss research program NCCR MUST in ultrafast science from 2010 to 2022. She received a „Diplom“ at ETH Zurich in 1984, a Ph.D. at Stanford University USA in 1989, and was a Member of Technical Staff (MTS) at Bell Labs USA 1989 to 1993 where she started her independent research. She has been a co-founder and board member for Time-Bandwidth Products (acquired by JDSU in 2014), for GigaTera (acquired by Time-Bandwidth in 2003) and a board member of Jenoptik since 2022. Her research interests are exploring and pushing the frontiers in ultrafast science and technology. Awards include the Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist (2022), OSA Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize (2020), SPIE Gold Medal (2020), IEEE Edison Medal (2019), European Inventor Award for lifetime achievement (2018), OSA Charles H. Townes Award (2015), LIA Arthur L. Schawlow Award (2013), ERC advanced grants (2012 and 2018), and EPS Senior Prize (2011). She supervised and graduated 93 Ph.D. students, published >510 journal publications and according to Google Scholar an h-index of 119 with more than 53’000 citations.

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Usman W. Chohan

Usman W. Chohan (b. Manhattan, NY) has previously been a Consultant with the World Bank Institute in their department of Social Accountability, working on issues of fiscal governance reform, and specifically, the implementation of Parliamentary Budget Offices (PBOs) to help bring impartial and nonpartisan financial expertise into governance institutions. His work with the World Bank led him to collaborate with and inform experts as far apart as Sydney, Washington DC, Vienna, Kampala, Ouagadougou, Abuja, Ottawa, and Canberra [1].

His budget reform work has been used to challenge and contextualize the laws underpinning legislative budget institutions in even the strongest democracies [2], such as in Canada, where his work was used to inform the landmark parliamentary debate on amending the Parliamentary Budget Office Act (C-476, 2013).

Prior to this he was the Special Situations Analyst in the Global Equities Team at Natcan Investment Management, the investment arm of the National Bank of Canada. The Global Equities team had six investment professionals including Usman and $3 billion dollars in Assets under Management (AuM).

Usman has an MBA in Strategy and Leadership from McGill University [3]; he has done Masters coursework at MIT-Tsinghua [4]. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Economics on a full scholarship from UNSW (Australia) [5], where he is exploring the Fiscal Policy implications of Legislative Budget Offices.

Given his rich 'tri-sector experience' that encompasses private sector, public sector and academia [6], Usman enjoys consulting, research, and teaching in equal measure. He delivered the 2015 Foreign Affairs Lecture in the Global Leadership Program (GLP) at Macquarie University in Sydney [7], and has been a guest lecturer in several courses at McGill University in Montreal since 2013. He is also a Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum in their Canberra Hub (2016).

Usman was nominated the Chief Administrator of Urdu Wikipedia in 2005 [8], which he had helped grow, build and code in its embryonic stages, by a 7-2 administrator vote. Usman is also a respected sitar player who, as a leading proponent in a new generation of sitarists [9], has performed live in more than 5 countries on 3 continents, including at the prestigious Borges Center for the Performing Arts in Buenos Aires (2012) [10]. With his voracious appetite for reading, Usman has completed the Goodreads Challenge of reading 100 new books every year successfully since 2012 [11].

Usman is fluent in eight languages [12], and speaks 5 out of the 7 Official languages of the World Bank. These include English, Mandarin [13], French [14], and Spanish [15], among others. Given that his last four residences were Montreal, Buenos Aires, Canberra, and Beijing, you will likely find him roaming somewhere between these four coordinates at the ends of the earth.

REFERENCES:
[1] http://www.revparl.ca/36/3/36n3e_13_chohan.pdf
[2] http://www.parl.gc.ca/legisinfo/BillDetails.aspx?billId=5997160&Language=E&Mode=1&View=10
[3] https://www.mcgill.ca/desautels/programs/mba-programs/meet-our-community/meet-our-students/usman-waqqas-chohan
[4] http://usmanchohan.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/my-tsinghua-grades.html
[5] https://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/our-people/mr-usman-chohan
[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anmWMFN4_aI
[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiikCBP5u48
[8] https://www.ur.wikipedia.org
[9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ECAyLcTtjA&list=UU5LIjx6HsLEK2QuRUb03kYA&index=2
[10] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4lO7kUaZUM
[11] https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13959169.Usman_W_Chohan
[12] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anmWMFN4_aI
[13] Ibid
[14] http://www.revparl.ca/36/3/36n3f_13_chohan.pdf
[15] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ECAyLcTtjA&list=UU5LIjx6HsLEK2QuRUb03kYA&index=2

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Uta Staiger

Executive Director, UCL European Institute, UCL

Uta Staiger joined UCL in 2009. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, gained with a scholarship from the Gates Cambridge Trust, as well as an MPhil from the same institution. She was also educated at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Konstanz (Germany). Prior to joining UCL, she held a post-doctoral position at the Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). Previously, she worked at a private foundation dedicated to cultural policy research in Barcelona, and was coordinator of a number of European Commission funded cooperative research projects.

As the Executive Director of the UCL European Institute, Uta develops the long-term strategy for the Institute, and devises and implements its work programme. She also teaches on the history and theory of European integration for the UCL Department of History.

Uta’s main research interests, spanning 20th century European thought, history and EU politics, are broadly in the relationship between culture and politics. She is interested in modern European, particularly early to mid-20th-century German thought that seeks to straddle aesthetics and the idea of the political. She has also worked on the role culture plays for citizenship and democracy, both in political thought and in policy developments over the course of European integration. She has published on the conjunction of culture and citizenship in European policy discourse, and the role of cultural practices for public discourses on contested urban sites. The latter also led to a co-edited volume, Memory Culture and the Contemporary City (Palgrave 2009). Most recently, she wrote a chapter on the historical policy context for the European Capitals of Culture programme for Patel, K. (ed.) The Cultural Politics of Europe. European Capitals of Culture and European Union since the 1980s (Routledge 2012). She has also contributed to and co-edited several policy reports for the European Commission, most recently writing the national report for Germany for the study Access of Young People to Culture for the DG Education and Culture (2010).

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts in 2012.

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Ute Poerschke

Professor of Architecture, Penn State
Ute Poerschke, professor and associate department head for graduate education, teaches architectural design and technical systems integration/comprehensive studio.

Prior to her tenure at Penn State, she taught design, construction, and environmentally responsible architecture at the Technical Universities of Berlin and Munich (1999–2005) and completed her doctoral degree in architectural theory at the Technical University of Cottbus in 2005.

She is a licensed architect and licensed urban planner in Germany, an international member of the American Institute of Architects, and a LEED-accredited professional. Poerschke is a principal of the firm Friedrich-Poerschke-Zwink Architekten | Stadtplaner in Munich, Germany, and co-editor of the architectural journal Wolkenkuckucksheim | Cloud-Cuckoo-Land.

Poerschke’s research focuses on the relationship of architecture and technology, the theory of functionalism, and the interpretation of how architects integrate aspects of technology with expression in architectural projects and education. Most of her recent work focuses on the high modernism of the 1920s to 1960s, particularly on how architects responded to the progressing lighting and heating, cooling, and ventilation science, technology and engineering of the time.

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Utibe Effiong

Resident Physician at St Mary Mercy Hospital and Research Scientist for the Exposure Research Laboratory, University of Michigan

Dr. Utibe Effiong is a US physician. Before his clinical appointment at St. Mary Mercy Hospital, he was the Writer-in-Residence at the University of Michigan Risk Science Center. In that role, he ran Risk Without Borders, a unique blog which examined emerging risk issues through the lens of a developing economy.

Dr. Effiong is a qualified physician and public health scientist. He holds the MBBCh degree from the University of Calabar, membership of the Nigerian National Postgraduate Medical College of Physicians and the MPH degree from the University of Michigan. For his master’s degree he concentrated on Environmental Health and Infectious Disease Epidemiology. He is also a New Voices Fellow with the Aspen Institute.

Dr. Effiong is no stranger to public health risk communication having spent 3 years at the University of Michigan where he has produced nearly 50 publications. He also has more than 13 years of experience in the Nigerian health system.

Prior to starting Risk Without Borders, Dr. Effiong spent 2 years as a research scientist with the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Before that he had worked for six years as an Internist with several Nigerian hospitals including the University of Uyo Teaching hospital and General Hospital Umunnato where he carried out clinical duties, medical research, student/physician training and health education for diabetic patients.

Drawing on 16 years’ experience in healthcare, research and risk communication, Dr. Effiong now focuses on creating an understanding of emerging global health risk issues from the perspective of a developing economy. He does this through his writing, interviews and public speeches. His articles have been featured by the World Economic Forum, Huffington Post and the Detroit Free Press. He has given several television, radio and magazine interviews and has spoken at various international fora. Most recently he spoke at Exponential Medicine in San Diego and gave a TED talk in Berlin.

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Uwe Kaulfuss

Geologist (PhD), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

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Uwem Friday Ekpo

Professor of Parasitology and Epidemiology, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta
Uwem Friday Ekpo is a Professor of Parasitology and Epidemiology at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria. He has a PhD and certificates in Bayesian Disease Mapping in Epidemiology, University of Basel, Switzerland and Epidemiological Methods. His research focus is on the epidemiology and control of neglected tropical diseases with special interest in schistosomiasis and soil transmitted helminth.

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