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Sarah Nehme

Sarah Nehme

Sarah graduated from the University of Toronto with an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and International Relations. Throughout her studies, Sarah took a keen interest in examining the role trade and economics have on international relations and diplomacy. At the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Sarah hopes to learn more about the impact […]

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Alan Sovran

Alan Sovran is a policy and programs expert with diverse experience contributing to research, analyses, and interventions related to a variety of policy areas. This work includes preparing and delivering remarks on proposed digital media tariffs at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, participating in multi-disciplinary summits examining policy solutions to microplastics pollution in the

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Peter Johnson

Peter A. Johnson

Dr. Peter Johnson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo. His research seeks to understand how governments, citizens, and private companies share information through geospatial technology, including open data, the Geoweb, social media, mobile devices, and the process of crowdsourcing. Recent projects have focused on

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Azam Asilian Bidgoli

Azam Asilian Bidgoli

Azam Asilian Bidgoli is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Science at Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Prior to her current position at WLU, she held a similar role as an Assistant Professor at Laurentian University. Additionally, she worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Canada, where she

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Lee Tiedrich

Lee Tiedrich is a widely recognized leader in artificial intelligence, data, and emerging technologies. She is a member of both the OECD and Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) AI expert groups and co-chairs both the GPAI Responsible AI Strategy for the Environment (RAISE) committee and the GPAI Intellectual Property Advisory Committee. With a degree in

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Stephanie Rose Cortinovis

Stephanie Cortinovis is a PhD student in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. Her research interests include global climate governance, low-carbon transitions, environmental ethics, and, most prominently, the implications of negative emissions technologies within those domains. In her PhD, she intends to apply strategies for decision-making under deep uncertainty to understand emerging

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Carissa Hubbard

Carissa Hubbard is Master of Arts candidate in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. She recently graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations. Throughout her undergraduate degree, Carissa had the opportunity to study and learn within a variety of disciplines including political science,

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Antonietta Raffaela Elia

Prof. Dr. Antonietta Elia, 2022 Finalist to the Pro Human Rights Prize, International Category (Madrid, Spain); 2021 Internationally Nominee to the Global Leadership Prize, Elliasson Tallberg Foundation; 2020 North South Prize of the Council of Europe as Member of the Mediterranean Network of Experts on Climate Change (MedECC); 2019 Former Candidate to the Italian Seat

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Anna Purkey

Dr. Anna Purkey is an Associate Professor of Human Rights and the Director of the Human Rights Program at United College at the University of Waterloo. Her research employs an inter-disciplinary approach to examine international and domestic refugee law and policy, with a special emphasis on protracted refugee situations and themes of vulnerability, human capability,

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Farzana Enam Rasna

Farzana is a graduate student in the International Public Policy program (MIPP) at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. She graduated from Dhaka University with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in economics. She has taught undergraduate economics classes at one of Bangladesh’s private universities for over three years. From 2012 to 2013, Farzana was a

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