Alia Amir

By profession, Alia Amir is a sociolinguist and a conversation analyst with fifteen years of experience teaching and doing research on topics related to the English language, English proficiency, and training pre-service teachers. Her Ph.D. is at the intersections of language policy and conversation analysis of English classes in Sweden at the compulsory school level. She is a published author in Journals like Classroom Discourse & Palgrave Macmillan. She is a co-founder of Swedish Pakistanis & Muslim Scientists Europe which are social networking groups made for inclusion & networking. She is also affiliated with KTH & Mid-Sweden University and is a contributor to the Ethnologue.

In her personal life, she enjoys the constant spoilt mothering of her adult children with whom she often explores the islands of Stockholm and enjoys the mundane beauties of changing weather. She is a published writer, and a lover of world cultures, languages, and traditions. She is passionate about equality and inclusion for all marginalized people in the world.

To read more about her research and publications, visit https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=67dOkTAAAAAJ&hl=en or https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alia_Amir2. She can also be reached at Twitter: @aliawhs.

Jonas Klevhag

Jonas Klevhag är affärsutvecklare och facilitator på The Bridge där han kopplar ihop forskning med näringsliv för att skynda på utvecklingen mot FN:s hållbarhetsmål. Han har sin bakgrund i regional utveckling med Skånes internationella innovationsstrategi och han har även coachat sociala entreprenörer i den nationella acceleratorn Impact Startup.

Christian Wilke

Christian Wilke är arkitekt i Lunds Kommuns Brunnshögsprojekt, där 40 000 människor kommer att ha sin privata eller professionella hemvist när allt är färdigbyggt. Med erfarenhet från bland annat NASA och stadsplanering i Afrika har han genomfört flera Lundaprojekt där medborgarna har fått aktivitets-sätta platsen innan den är bebyggd.

Charlotte Petersson Troije

Charlotte Petersson Troije är forskarstuderande inom Urbana studier på Malmö universitet. Sedan 2010 har hon utvecklat idén om att integrera urbana utemiljöer i det dagliga arbetslivet.Under 2017 resulterade detta i det interaktiva forskningsprojektet”StickUt Malmö”, där olika former och förutsättningar för att arbeta utomhus identifierades. Forskningsresultaten visar att utomhusarbetet kan bidra till allt från bättre samtal, ny energi, mindre stress, till mer inspiration och kreativitet, men även till känslor av skuld – som att det inte är riktigt legitimt att arbeta utomhus.

Mídria da Silva Pereira

Midria is a Brazilian poet, social studies student at the Universidade de São Paulo and one of the first Ashoka Young Changemakers in her country. Founder of the Slam USPerifa, a spoken word competition that happens inside the space of a public university bringing scholar community and young population from all corners of the city to share poetry and discuss important topics related to society. Has been part of the cultural movement Sarau do Vale ever since she was 16 years old and has been dedicating her efforts to make art a powerful tool for social impact. Currently is also a member of an extension group that works with education based on the pedagogy of Paulo Freire and co-hosts a podcast called Curas Pretas that talks about processes of healing, self-knowledge and expansion of the potencys of being a black woman in this universe. In 2020 Midria is publishing her first two books, one on poetry and a second dedicated to children.

 

Saras D. Sarasvathy

Saras D. Sarasvathy is Paul Hammaker Professor at University of Virginia’s Darden School and also holds the Jamuna Raghavan Chair in Entrepreneurship at IIM, Bangalore. A leading scholar on the cognitive basis for high-performance entrepreneurship, Sarasvathy serves as advisor to entrepreneurship education and doctoral programs in Europe, Africa and Asia. Her book Effectuation: Elements of Entrepreneurial Expertise has sparked research by hundreds of scholars and her Gold-medal winning co-authored textbook Effectual Entrepreneurship is used by over 4000 educators around the world.

Effectuation is a rigorous framework for understanding how entrepreneurs starting with very few resources can nonetheless create enduring ventures with high economic and social impact. Relevant multimedia materials from around the world can be found at www.effectuation.org.

Sarasvathy’s scholarly work has been published in leading journals in economics, ethics, psychology, marketing and management and has won several awards from the Academy of Management (most recently the Foundational Paper Award from the Entrepreneurship Division) and the American Marketing Association. Sarasvathy has served on the editorial boards of top journals in management and entrepreneurship and has academic chairs in entrepreneurship in Germany, India, China and Sweden.  Babson College recognized her contributions to entrepreneurship education with an honorary doctorate and Fortune Small Business magazine named her one of top 18 entrepreneurship professors. And in 2019, she was recognized with the legacy award from the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers.  Sarasvathy received her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.  Her thesis was supervised by Herbert Simon, 1978 Nobel Laureate in Economics.

Lars Jannick Johansen

Founder of Den Sociale Kapitalfond, the Scandinavian impact investment fund manager, and Managing Partner of its private equity fund. Formerly, Director of the Scandinavian media and advisory company, Monday Morning, and Development Director of INDEX: the world’s largest award for design to improve life, of which he has also been a finalist. Lars has served on government committees, company boards and advisory boards on sustainable development in Scandinavia and abroad. He is educated MA in Political Science, University of Copenhagen, and MA in Central and East European Studies, UCL, with executive education from Wharton Business School, Saïd Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School. In 2013, the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader.

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