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Umair Choksy

Senior Lecturer in Management, University of Stirling
Umair Choksy is a Senior Lecturer in Management at University of Stirling Management School. His research interests are in the areas global value chains, governance and supply chain resilience. This includes work on the knowledge connectivity, power and governance, absorptive capacity, sustainability and economic upgrading in global value chains. He has published International Business Review, Management International Review, R&D Management and Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences.

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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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Uwe Peters

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Utrecht University
I hold an MA in philosophy of psychology (distinction), an MSc in psychology and neuroscience of mental health (distinction), and a PhD in philosophy from King's College London. Before becoming an assistant professor in philosophy at Utrecht University, I was a post-doctoral researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge. I work on cognitive biases, the ethics of artificial intelligence, and meta-scientific questions.

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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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Uzziah Mutumbi

Doctoral candidate- Environmental Science, Rhodes University
Uzziah Mutumbi is a sustainable energy researcher and a PhD candidate at Rhodes University, South Africa. His thesis title is "Barriers and enablers of solar energy adoption in South African households".
Uzziah Mutumbi's supervisors are Prof Gladman Thondhlana and Dr Sheunesu Ruwanza.

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V. Gerard (Jerry) Comizio

Professor of Law, American University
V. Gerard (Jerry) Comizio, of American University, teaches courses on U.S. and international banking law, virtual currency law, regulation of financial institutions and business law compliance and ethics.

Professor Comizio is a leading authority on financial services regulatory, transactional, and compliance matters. He had extensive experience in private practice representing a wide range of financial services companies, including both domestic and foreign banking organizations, non-bank financial institutions, online banking, fintech companies, virtual currency exchanges and private equity firms.

Professor Comizio has written extensively about current issues in financial services regulation. He is the author of International Banking Law (West Academic 2016), one of the first major casebooks on international banking law issues. He is also the contributing author to three books on financial services issues: Winning Legal Strategies for Banking Law, Aspatore Books (2005); The Bank Investor Relations Handbook, America’s Community Bankers (2003); and The Bank Founder’s Guidebook, SNL Securities (1999).

Professor Comizio also focuses on the emerging legal regulatory and policy framework governing virtual currency activities and other transformative financial technologies. He currently teaches one of the first virtual currency law courses in the country, which explores the emerging legal and regulatory framework under the corporate, securities, commodities, banking, money transmission, anti-money laundering, fintech, tax, and commercial laws governing virtual currency and block chain activities.

Professor Comizio has written extensively on a wide range of virtual currency law issues including Virtual Currencies: Growing Regulatory Framework and Challenges in the Emerging Fintech Ecosystem}, 21 N.C. Banking Inst. 131 (2017) https://scholarship.law.unc.edu/ncbi/vol21/iss1/10/, and The cyber threat looming over virtual currencies, American Banker (May 6, 2021). He is also author of Virtual Currency Law: The Emerging Legal and Regulatory Framework, Wolters Kluwer (2022), one of the first major casebooks on digital asset law.

Professor Comizio has been featured in the American Banker’s annual “Washington Insider’s Survey of the 25 Most Influential People Involved in Financial Services Regulatory Issues.” He also has regularly appeared on television, internet media, and radio discussing current financial services regulatory issues, including NPR, Fox News, Bloomberg TV, Wall Street Journal Online, Dow Jones Online and CBS radio, and has been widely quoted on financial services issues in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Financial Times, Reuters, Bloomberg and other major newspapers and publications. He has been consistently recognized by Chambers, Legal 500 and other major law firm practice rankings.

Professor Comizio joined AUWCL from Fried Frank Shriver Harris and Jacobsen LLP, where he was a partner and chaired their banking practice. Prior to that, he was a partner and chaired the banking practice at Paul Hastings LLP, and was managing partner of the DC Office of Thacher Proffit and Wood LLP. Prior to private practice, he was for many years the deputy general counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Thrift Supervision (currently the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) and its predecessor, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and a senior attorney in the Division of the Corporation Finance in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In 1994, he led an interagency task force related to the U.S. Senate and House financial services committee hearings held in response to widely publicized abuses in the initial public offering market for bank mutual to stock conversions. This task force was widely credited with initiating comprehensive regulatory reform of this area at the federal and state level.

Professor Comizio has served as a member of the Governing Committee of the U.S. Conference on Consumer Finance Law and the Board of Advisors of the University of North Carolina Law School Center for Banking and Finance. He is also the former chairman of the Trusts and Investments Subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s Banking Law committee and the Advisory Board of the George Washington Law School Center for Law Economics and Finance. He recently served as a member of the Economic Policy team’s Financial Institutions subcommittee for the Biden-Harris campaign.

Professor Comizio received his master’s degree in global policy from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in 2020, his LLM in Financial Services Regulation from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1983, his JD from the Pace University School of Law in 1980 where he was case and comments editor and his BA from Fordham University in 1977.

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Vahid Vahidinasab

Associate Professor of Power and Energy Systems, Nottingham Trent University
Proactive and solution-driven, I'm an inspiring leader, university professor, and innovator who links people with ideas that empower them to achieve the impossible and unlock their potential. My name is Vahid Vahidinasab and I have over 18 years experience of working in academia and industry both on organisational leadership and also on research in the field of sustainable power and energy systems modelling, operation, management and control as well as their business.

MY RESEARCH INTERESTS
I passionately work on Sustainable Power and Energy Systems with a focus on the development of innovative solutions to empower people and local communities in the transition to a net-zero future and tackle energy poverty worldwide.

I am also experienced in leading Higher Education & Research Institutions and in motivating, managing and driving talents. I have great experience in working with startup companies, SMEs, and large corporations with the privilege to enable advancement in science to support the ideas to flourish and empower people.

MY MISSION
My mission is to create high-impact scientific teams that is able to promote productivity and innovation in science and technology.

MY BIG MAGIC
With a positive attitude, I am passionate about developing creative solutions and strategic decisions for real-world challenges. As an organised, ambitious, and fast learner person with an understanding of others, I am skilled in collaborating inter-institutionally or globally to achieve goals.

MY LIFE-LONG PASSION
It is my passion to contribute to the development of sustainable energy systems of the future by integrating distributed energy resources like wind, PV, storage, and EVs while empowering people to face the uncertainties and risks of this evolution or better to say revolution.

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Vakhtang Mshvildadze

Professeur de Pharmacognosie, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)

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Val Ekechukwu

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nigeria
Professor Val Ekechukwu was the former Director, Research & Innovation at the National Universities Commission (NUC). He was a member of the Governing Council at both the Air-force Institute of Technology, Kaduna and the National Mathematical Centre, Abuja.

He has held numerous international fellowships and is currently undertaking research at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he has taught for over four decades.

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Valentina Costantino

Research Associate, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
Dr Costantino is a Research Associate for the Biosecurity Program (BSP) at the Kirby Institute for the faculty of Medicine at UNSW Sydney. She has a Mathematics background and holds an Mphil from School of Population Health, UNSW, Sydney, in modelling of infectious diseases. She completed her PhD candidature in January 2022 at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney. Her work focusses on the use of mathematical modelling for the optimization of pharmaceutical and not pharmaceutical interventions in an outbreak response. She uses mathematical modelling for epidemic forecasting, preparedness and control. She contributed to the policy control for COVID-19 in Australia, with the first study showing the effectiveness of Australia international borders closure on cases control. She investigated the effectiveness of influenza vaccination uptake with immunity waning. Her research field expended on preparedness and response for bioterror attacks, with a particular focus on smallpox and bacillus anthracis release. Her research fields include modelling of infectious diseases, estimation of intervention effectiveness, risks and data analyses, using statistical methods (SPSS, SAS) and analytical methods (Matlab, R).

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Valentina Di Iasio

Research Fellow, Economics of Migration, University of Southampton
I am an applied economist with an interest in Labour Economics, Development Economics, Economic Geography and Applied Econometrics.

My research is particularly focused on international migration, in particular on the impact of migration on the host and origin countries, migration pull factors, and on the role of diversity and migration on the inter-generational transmission of norms and values.

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Valentina Gosetti

Associate Professor in French and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, University of New England
I am originally from Collio di Vobarno, a small town of the province of Brescia, in the north of Italy, not far away from Lake Garda. After attending the Liceo “Enrico Fermi” in Salò (BS, Italy), I completed a Diploma di Laurea in French and English languages, literatures, and cultures at the University of Bologna (Italy); and then an MSt and a DPhil in French at the University of Oxford (Balliol College). I have been a pensionnaire étrangère at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, rue d’Ulm, and an intern at UNESCO (Headquarters, Paris). Before joining the University of New England (Australia), I held the Kathleen Bourne Junior Research Fellowship in French and Comparative Literature at St Anne’s College (Oxford, UK).

Currently, I am the recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Award (DE200101206: Provincial Poets and the Making of a Nation) funded by the Australian Government.

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Valentina Paz

Assistant Researcher in the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, UCL
Valentina Paz received a degree in Psychology from the University of the Republic (Udelar) in 2014 and in 2018 she obtained a Master's degree in Biological Sciences Neurosciences option from the Basic Sciences Development program (Pedeciba). She is currently studying a specialization in Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy and a PhD in Biological Sciences option Neurosciences. She is also an Assistant Research in the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL.

She is a member of the work team investigating "Chronobiology" and "Cognitive Neuroscience and Mental Health" and has coordinated research and development projects studying the relationship between the circadian system and major depressive disorder and the neural basis of social comparisons in people with depression and social anxiety.

Her scientific and professional interests are mainly in the area of ​​experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience.

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Valentina Rossi

Postdoctoral researcher, Palaeontology, University College Cork
I am a palaeobiologist, skilled in the analysis of pigmented soft tissues in fossil and extant vertebrates. A particular focus of my studies is the preservation of melanosomes in fossil vertebrates. My work so far have produced the first report of a tissue-specific chemical signal in melanosomes in extant amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds and the first report of similar chemical signals in fossils, spanning in age between 10 and 280 millions years old. During my PhD I have specialised in the study of metal-melanin associations using synchrotron-based chemical analysis.

My research interest also include the investigation of the taphonomic processes that lead to the preservation of soft tissues and biomolecules using taphonomic experiments at high pressure and temperature.

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Valentina Signorelli

Associate Professor in Film and TV, University of Greenwich
I am a British-Italian creative producer and academic based in London. I hold a PhD Film from the University of Westminster focusing on transmedia practices in the digital era. I am the co-founder of the production studio Daitona and its advertising division, DOGODOT. We make films, documentaries, commercials, TV projects, docu-mapping and VR experiences with a transmedia approach. My works as a writer, director and producer have been distributed internationally and showcased in A-list festivals around the world, including the prestigious Venice Film Festival. I joined the University of Greenwich in January 2024 as an Associate Professor in Film and TV. Before that, I served as Senior Lecturer and Course Leader BA Media and Communication at the University of East London for four years and worked as an Associate Lecturer with many academic institutions, including the University of Westminster, the University for the Creative Arts, Bucks New University, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Sapienza - University of Rome.

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Valentina A. Andreeva

research scientist, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
I obtained a Ph.D. in Preventive Medicine in 2008 from the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA. I am an epidemiologist and a behavioral scientist with expertise in chronic disease epidemiology, neuropsychiatric needs assessment and prevention research, and mental and behavioral health promotion especially via proper nutrition. I am proficient in research methods, health promotion theory, nutrition and mental health assessment, risk factor assessment, and validation research. At Sorbonne Paris Nord University, I have held the tenured position of Associate Professor of Epidemiology since 2013. I co-directed the Master of Human Nutrition & Public Health program from 2015 to 2022. I am an ad hoc grant proposal reviewer, peer reviewer for over two dozen indexed journals, and a member of numerous public health, epidemiology and nutrition non-profit professional organizations. I have published >180 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, monographs, and conference proceedings (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/valentina.andreeva.1/bibliography/public/).

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Valeria Skafida

Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, The University of Edinburgh
My research interests and expertise straddle the disciplines of social policy, sociology and public health. For my research I use primarily advanced quantitative analysis methods and longitudinal survey data. Most of my research to date has involved using population cohort study data to understand how children’s health and wellbeing outcomes are socially stratified, and how early experiences or events relate to subsequent outcomes. I have dabbled with topics related to infant feeding and children's eating habits, and my more recent work explores the lives of women and children affected by domestic abuse.

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Valérie Bougault

Maître de Conférences, Université Côte d’Azur
J'ai un parcours Universitaire en Sciences et Techniques des Activités Physiques et Sportives (STAPS), à Rennes jusqu'en maîtrise, puis à Strasbourg pour un DEA et une thèse. Après un doctorat obtenu en 2005 en Sciences de la vie sur la mesure du débit cardiaque à l'effort chez des patients atteints de pathologies respiratoires, j'ai réalisé un stage post-doctoral d'un an à l'université d'Avignon où j'ai effectué des recherches sur les adaptations cardiaques à l'exercice chez l'enfant et l'adulte sportifs par échocardiographie Doppler.
Ex-nageuse de niveau national, j'ai réalisé un stage post-doctoral de 3 ans au centre de recherche de l'institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec (QC,Canada) sur des projets que j'ai créé autour des effets du sport de haut-niveau sur la santé respiratoire des sportifs compétiteurs.
Je suis reconnue au niveau international sur cette thématique et plus largement sur la thématique des problèmes respiratoires des sportifs en lien avec leur environnement. Depuis 2009, je suis Maître de conférences en STAPS, initialement à l'université de Lille puis à à l'université Côte d'Azur, depuis 2018.
Mon laboratoire actuel est le LAMHESS (Laboratoire Motricité Humaine Expertise Sport Santé). J'interviens régulièrement dans des groupes d'experts internationaux pour la rédaction de revues narratives ou de recommandations sur le sujet de la santé respiratoire du sportif de haut-niveau. Dernièrement, j'ai été membre élue d'un tel groupe de travail pour le Comité International Olympique aboutissant à un rapport détaillé et des recommandations en vue des JO de Tokyo.

Mon activité scientifique principale est axée sur le thème des effets délétères potentiels du sport intense sur la santé. Je m'intéresse principalement à l'évolution des problèmes de santé des sportifs d'endurance, notamment des voies respiratoires, en relation avec leur environnement. Je m'intéresse particulièrement aux effets de la pollution et de la ventilation (type et mode d'exercice) sur les lésions épithéliales bronchiques et l'inflammation. L'objectif de ces recherches est de comprendre le développement de "l'asthme induit par l'exercice" , la rhinite, les allergies, les susceptibilités virales chez les athlètes d'endurance, et leurs conséquences sur la santé et la performance, notamment chez les nageurs et cyclistes d'élite. Je m'intéresse également aux effets de différentes modalités d'exercice physique sur les bronches chez des sujets sains et asthmatiques. J'encadre actuellement une étudiante en thèse sur la santé bucco-dentaire et le microbiote des cyclistes élites, en lien avec la santé respiratoire.

Mots-clés : Sportifs, Bronches, Asthme, Allergies, Rhinite, immunité, santé, pollution, chlore, environnement

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Valérie Duplat

Associate Professor of business strategy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dr. Valérie Duplat is Associate Professor of Strategy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (SBE). Before joining the Vrije Universiteit, Valérie was a faculty member at the EDHEC Business School, France. She obtained her Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. During her Ph.D., Valérie visited the University of Maastricht for nine months and the University of Michigan for one year and a half. In June 2013, she obtained the Junior Faculty Award granted by the FNEGE (French Foundation for Management Education). Thanks to this Award, Valérie visited the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, for six months in 2014. In 2016 and 2022, she visited the Univesrity of Colorado (Leeds School of Business).

Since September 2021, Valérie is coordinator of the Minor in Business Administration entitled "New Ways of Doing Business" at the VU Amsterdam. She has also acted as bachelor and master thesis coordinator in strategy and organization since 2016.

In December 2023, she was appointed Associate Editor for Business Strategy & Organizational Theory for the European Management Journal (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/european-management-journal).

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Valérie Erlich

Maîtresse de conférences de sociologie, URMIS (Unité de recherche Migrations et Société), CNRS, IRD, Université Côte d’Azur
Valérie Erlich est maîtresse de conférences au Département de Sociologie de l’Université Côte d’Azur et chercheure à l’URMIS (Unité de recherche Migrations et sociétés, CNRS 6, UMR 8245), Membre du comité scientifique de l’Observatoire National de la Vie Etudiante de 2007 à 2012, Directrice de l’Observatoire de la Vie Etudiante de l’Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis de 2003 à 2007.
Depuis les années 1990, ses recherches portent sur le monde étudiant, sur la socialisation des étudiants et la construction des identités étudiantes dans le contexte de massification de l’enseignement supérieur.
A partir de 2005, elle s’intéresse plus spécifiquement aux mobilités pour études, à l’analyse statistique des flux des étudiants en mobilité et à l’internationalisation de l’enseignement supérieur.
Elle a publié sur ces thématiques :
- Les nouveaux étudiants. Un groupe social en mutation, Préface de Roger Establet, Paris, Armand Colin, « Références » Sociologie, 1998.
- Les mobilités étudiantes, Panorama des savoirs, Paris, La Documentation française, 2012, 219 p.

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Valerie Fraser

Professor of Philosophy and Art History, University of Essex
Valerie Fraser specialises in the art and architecture of Latin America and Spain with particular emphasis on the early colonial period and the 20th/21st centuries. She is Chair of the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (ESCALA). She has won a number of major awards from the AHRC including funding for a fully-illustrated online catalogue of ESCALA, and is currently overseeing a three-year AHRC-funded research project (2009-2012) entitled Meeting Margins: Transnational Art in Latin America and Europe 1950-1978 which is in collaboration with the University of the Arts London and investigates artistic relations between Europe and Latin America in the post-war period. She has worked on a number of exhibitions including Kahlo's Contemporaries held at the University Gallery in 2005, and Latin American Art: Contexts and Accomplices at the Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, 2004.

Research interests:
•Colonial Latin American art
•Colonial Latin American architecture
•20th century Latin American art
•20th century Latin American architecture

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Valérie Hémar-Nicolas

Professeure des universités en sciences de gestion et du management - Consommation alimentaire et durabilité, Université Paris-Saclay
Valérie Hémar-Nicolas est Professeure des Universités en sciences de gestion et du management à l’Université Paris-Saclay. Ses recherches portent sur la consommation alimentaire dans une perspective de santé et de durabilité sociale et environnementale. Elle mène ses travaux dans le cadre de projets de recherche nationaux et internationaux (ANR CRI-KEE : Consommation et représentations des insectes - Etat des connaissances sur leur comestibilité en Europe ; Smag For Livet (Taste For Life) financé par la fondation danoise Nordea-Fonden ; ANR MarCO - Marketing to Children and Obesity...).

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Valerie J. Karplus

Valerie J. Karplus is the Class of 1943 Career Development Professor and an Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research focuses on resource and environmental management in firms operating in diverse national and industry contexts, with an emphasis on emerging markets and the role of policy. Karplus is an expert on China’s energy system, including technology trends, energy system governance, and the sustainability impact of business decisions. She holds a BS in biochemistry and political science from Yale University and a PhD in engineering systems from MIT.

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Valérie Mérindol

Enseignant chercheur en management de l'innovation et de la créativité, PSB Paris School of Business
Spécialisée en management de l'innovation et de la créativité, j'ai produit une 30aine d'articles scientifiques et 5 ouvrages sur l'innovation dans les grandes entreprises, les politiques publiques d'innovation, les nouveaux lieux d'innovation. J'interviens régulièrement auprès des acteurs publics et privés pour la réalisation d'études et recherches sur les nouvelles dynamiques de l'innovation et de la créativité.

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Valerie Møller

Professor of Sociology, Rhodes University
VALERIE MØLLER is Professor Emeritus at Rhodes University. She was appointed to the new chair of Quality of Life Studies at Rhodes in the Institute of Social and Economic Research in 2007. Before that she was director of ISER (1998–2006) and headed the Quality of Life Research Unit at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, in the 1990s. She grew up in the southern United States and Switzerland. A sociologist by training, she received her Ph.D. from the University of Zürich. She and her architect husband arrived in Africa in 1972 in a VW kombi and stayed. She has lived and worked in southern Africa since that time.

Together with South African colleagues, she initiated the South African Quality of Life (SAQoL) trends study that has tracked the personal well-being of South Africans from all walks of life since the early 1980s. In 1996 and 2004, together with Alex Michalos, editor of the leading international journal on quality-of-life, Social Indicators Research, she organised ‘roving conferences’ to promote social indicators and quality-of-life research among South African scholars. The 2004 ‘Roving Conference’ held at Rhodes University formed part of the University’s Centenary celebrations.

Valerie Møller has published some 200 research articles, chapters in books, and research monographs covering a wide range of topics related to quality of life and well-being. She has edited or co-edited a number of Springer volumes on quality-of-life topics including two focusing on South African quality of life (published in 1997 and 2007).

She is an international Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS) Distinguished Qol Researcher in recognition of her lifetime achievements and accomplishments in quality-of-life studies. She hosted the ISQOLS 7th conference at Rhodes University in 2006, and served as ISQoL’s President (2007–8). She serves on the boards of a number of quality-of-life journals and received the 1997 (with Lawrence Schlemmer) and 2013 Best Social Indicator Research (SIR) Paper awards. The 2013 Best SIR Paper reported on three decades of the SAQoL trends study.

Recent Publications:
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOKS AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Møller, V.

2020 in press Preface: A place and a time for a Handbook on Active Ageing and Quality of Life. In: F. Rojo-Pérez. & G. Fernández-Mayoralas G. (Eds.), Handbook of Active Ageing and Quality of Life – From Concepts to Applications. (pp. 1–7) International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.

Møller, V.

2020 in press Hamba kahle, ‘go well’, from Africa. In: A.C. Michalos (Ed.), The Pope of Happiness - A Festschrift for Ruut Veenhoven. Social Indicators Research Series. Cham, Switzlerland: Springer Nature,

Møller, V.

2019 ‘Foreword’. In Eloff, I. (Ed.) Handbook of Quality of Life in African Societies. (pp.v-vii). International Handbooks on Quality of Life. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.

Møller, V., and Roberts, B.J.

2019 The best and worst times of life for South Africans: Evidence of universal reference standards in evaluations of personal well-being using Bernheim’s ACSA. Social Indicators Research 143(3), 1319-1347. DOI 10.1007/s11205-018-2018-9 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-018-2018-9

Møller, V., and Roberts, B.J.

2018 Online appendix: The best and worst times of life for South Africans: evidence of universal reference standards in evaluations of personal well-being using Bernheim’s ACSA. (Domains that define the anchors of the ACSA scale of personal well‐being: South Africans’ descriptions of their best and worst experiences in life in 2012). Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/67024

Otterbach, S., Sousa-Posa, A., and Møller, V.

2018 A cohort analysis of subjective wellbeing and ageing: heading towards a midlife crisis? Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 9(4), 382–411.

http://dx.doi.org/10.14301/llcs.v9i4.509

Barrientos, A., Møller, V., Saboia, J., Lloyd-Sherlock, P. and Mase, J.

2018 Ageing, wellbeing and development: Brazil and South Africa. In: Alan Walker (Ed.), The New Dynamics of Ageing, Volume 1, Bristol UK: Policy Press. (Chapter 15, pp. 307 – 324.)

ISBN 978-1-4473-1473-8 paperback

Møller, V., Roberts, B.J. and Zani, D.

2018 The National Wellbeing Index in the IsiXhosa Translation: Focus group discussions on how South Africans view the quality of their society. Social Indicators Research 135(1), 167–193.

DOI: 10.1007/s11205-016-1481-4 http://rdcu.be/mOnk http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-016-1481-4

Møller, V.

2018 Whatever Happened to Social Indicators in Africa? Whatever happened indeed! A developing world perspective on the Kenneth C. Land and Alex C. Michalos report on 'Fifty Years after the Social Indicators Movement'. Social Indicators Research 135 (3):1009–1019.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-017-1555-y

http://rdcu.be/opqP

Møller, V., Roberts, B.J., Tiliouine, H. & Loschky, J.

2017 ‘Waiting for Happiness’ in Africa. In: John Helliwell, Richard Layard and Jeffrey Sachs (Eds.), World Happiness Report 2017 (Chapter 4, pp. 84–120). New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2017/ http://worldhappiness.report/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/HR17-Ch4_w-oAppendix.pdf ISBN 978-0-9968513-5-0

Møller, V. and Roberts, B.

2017 New Beginnings in an Ancient Region: Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa.

In: R.J. Estes and M.J. Sirgy (Eds.), The Pursuit of Human Well-Being: The Untold Global History.

(pp. 161–215), International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life Research, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.

ISBN 978-3-319-39100-7 www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319391007 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-39101-4

Møller, V. and Roberts, B.J.

2017 South African Hopes and Fears Twenty Years into Democracy: A Replication of Hadley Cantril’s Pattern of Human Concerns. Social Indicators Research 130(1), 39–69.

DOI 10.1007/s11205-015-1131-2 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-015-1131-2

https://rdcu.be/6qUp

Møller, V.

2016 South African perceptions of the good life twenty years into democracy. In:

F. Maggino (Ed.), A Life Devoted to Quality of Life, Festschrift in Honor of Alex C. Michalos. (pp. 271–295). Social Indicators Research Series 60, Dordrecht: Springer International Publisher.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20568-7_15 ISBN 978-3-319-20568-7

Glatzer, W., and Camfield, L., Møller, V. and Rojas, M. (Eds.).

2015 Global Handbook of Quality of Life: Exploration of well-being of nations and continents. Springer International handbooks of quality-of-life. Dordrecht: Springer.

ISBN 978-94-017-9177-9, DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9178-6

Roberts, B.J., Gordon, S.L., Møller, V. and Struwig, J.

2015 Shadow of the Sun – the distribution of wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa. In: Glatzer, W. and Camfield, L., Møller,V., and Rojas, M. (eds.), Global Handbook of Quality of Life: Exploration of well-being of nations and continents. Springer International handbooks of quality-of-life, pp. 531– 568. Dordrecht: Springer. DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9178-6_23

Møller, V., Roberts, B., and Zani, D.

2015 The Personal Wellbeing Index in the South African isiXhosa translation: A qualitative focus group study. Social Indicators Research 124, 835–862. DOI 10.1007/s11205-014-0820-6

Møller, V. and Roberts, B.J. (2017). “South African Hopes and Fears Twenty Years into Democracy: A Replication of Hadley Cantril’s Pattern of Human Concerns”. Social Indicators Research 130(1): 39-69.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-015-1131-2

Møller, V. (2017). “Whatever Happened to Social Indicators in Africa? Whatever happened indeed! A developing world perspective on the Kenneth C. Land and Alex C. Michalos report on 'Fifty Years After the Social Indicators Movement' “. Social Indicators Research

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-017-1555-y. http://rdcu.be/opqP

Møller, V., Roberts, B.J. and Zani, D. (2016). “The National Wellbeing Index in the IsiXhosa Translation: Focus group discussions on how South Africans view the quality of their society”. Social Indicators Research.

DOI: 10.1007/s11205-016-1481-4 http://rdcu.be/mOnk

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-016-1481-4

Møller, V., Roberts, B., and Zani, D. (2015). “The Personal Wellbeing Index in the South African isiXhosa translation: A qualitative focus group study”. Social Indicators Research 124: 835–862.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11205-014-0820-6

Books/Chapters in Books

Møller, V., Roberts, B.J., Tiliouine, H. & Loschky, J. (2017). “ ‘Waiting for Happiness’ in Africa“. In Helliwell, J., Layard, R., & Sachs, J. (eds). World Happiness Report 2017. (Chapter 4, pp. 84-120). New York: Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2017/

Møller, V. and Roberts, B. (2017). “New Beginnings in an Ancient Region: Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa” In Estes, R.J. and Sirgy, M.J. (eds.) The Pursuit of Human Well-Being: The Untold Global History. (pp. 161–215), International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life Research, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39101-4

ISBN 978-3-319-39100-7

Møller, V. (2016). “South African perceptions of the good life twenty years into democracy. In Maggino, F. (ed.) A Life Devoted to Quality of Life, Festschrift in Honor of Alex C. Michalos. Social Indicators Research Series 60 (pp. 271–295). Dordrecht: Springer International Publisher.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20568-7_15

ISBN 978-3-319-20568-7

Glatzer, W., and Camfield, L., Møller, V. and Rojas, M. (eds.). (2015). “Global Handbook of Quality of Life: Exploration of well-being of nations and continents”. Springer International handbooks of quality-of-life. Dordrecht: Springer.

www.springer.com/kr/book/9789401791779

Roberts, B.J., Gordon, S.L., Møller, V. and Struwig, J. (2015). “Shadow of the Sun – the distribution of wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa”. In: Glatzer, W. and Camfield, L., Møller, V., and Rojas, M. (eds.) Global Handbook of Quality of Life: Exploration of well-being of nations and continents. Springer International handbooks of quality-of-life (pp. 531– 568). Dordrecht: Springer.

www.springer.com/kr/book/9789401791779

Conference presentations

Møller, V. and Roberts, B.J. (2017). Powerpoint presentation on ‘Waiting for Happiness in Africa’ at the World Happiness Report 2017 launch held on 20 March 2017 at The United Nations Headquarters in New York City, in New York, USA.

Møller, V. and Tiliouine, H. (2015). Powerpoint presentation on Quality of life in South Africa and Algeria: A multi-method approach (2011-2013) at the South Africa-Algeria Joint Researchers’ Workshop held on 18-20 October 2015 in the iThemba LAB, Faure, Western Cape, South Africa.

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