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Dylan Wiliam, PhD, is a consultant who works with educators all over the world to develop effective, research-based teaching. He is former deputy director (Provost) of the Institute of Education at the University of London. From teaching in urban public schools to directing a large-scale testing program to serving in university administration, his professional path has led to a variety of positions at the forefront of education.He has written over 300 books, chapters and articles including a major review of research on formative assessment coauthored with Paul Black. He left the University of London in 2010 to focus on working more directly with teachers, and now spends his time working with teachers all over the world on improving teaching and learning.
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Head of Advocacy, Research and Development and Knowledge Management at the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) in Amsterdam, Europe’s only independent, pan-European cultural foundation. Previously, she was Executive Director of ENCATC (European Network of Cultural Management Training Centres). She also worked with the World Commission on Culture and Development (UN/UNESCO) that published the landmark report “Our Creative Diversity”, Council of Europe, Ministry of Culture of France, and several NGOs in Brussels, London, Paris, and Copenhagen. Isabelle serves different juries and boards. Her special interests lie with international cultural relations and cooperation, as well as EU cultural policy development. She holds a M. Phil in international cultural exchanges (Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble), M. Phil in history of international relations (Institut des Hautes Etudes Européennes, Strasbourg), and Master in history of art and archaeology (Université des Sciences Humaines, Strasbourg).
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Researcher for the Italian National Research Council, Giovanna Battelli's research is focused on dairy research, with particular emphasis on lipophilic compounds and include: the identification of markers for the characterization of traditional and PDO cheeses, like fatty acids and terpenes; the study of the production and evolution of volatile flavor compounds in fermented food (cheese, yogurt, but also beer and wine) as the result of the biochemistry activity of the microbiota, with the aim to identify defects or to improve flavor characteristics; the study of nutraceutical value of cheeses and how to improve it feeding animals with diet containing high level omega3 fatty acids plants.
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I'm the CMO, babystep.tv working towards getting our first 100 million views of our videos. I am also the cofounder of thewonk.eu, THE content sharing platform for EU policy analysts. But above all I am a lucky husband and father of two boys.
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Yacine Kouhen is a Trainer and a Coach in Communication as well as a Copywriter. In the field of training, he focuses on Public Speaking (design and delivery of a presentation, body language, storytelling, self confidence), Visual Communication (Power Point, Prezi...) and Written Communication (Clear Writing for the Web, Copywriting...). He works/ has worked with many EU Institutions (Commission, Parliament, EFSA, REA, EESC, JRC...), Groups of Interests (CEMR, Food Drink Europe, Carbon Watch..), Private Companies (Linklaters, Bayer Crop), Business Schools, Phd Candidates, as well as the World Bank, TEDx Brussels... anyone and everyone really. His methods are based on a mix of his corporate and public affairs skills, intense sport at competitive level as well as arts (namely music, acting and writing). On another note, he also likes to develop various creative projects, such as the Eurobubble Series, the first web series on the life of young EU Affairs workers (best web series Award, Liège Festival 2013), short movies, short stories (award winning prize, welovewords 2014) and books (one published, one ongoing)
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Managing Director / Business Psychologist
I am a Business Psychologist* who heads up the Sten10 assessment design consultancy. I specialise in the creation of innovative psychological tests and other assessments to gain insight into people's behaviour, motivation and personality. I have spoken at the following conferences: Association of Business Psychology Annual Conference 2014 and 2015 Association of Graduate Recruiters Annual Conference 2015 I have also run sessions for Masters students and post graduates at the Universities of Kingston, Guildford and Greenwich. I have also run numerous smaller 'bitesize' sessions in a variety of contexts. The topics I cover include areas such as Unconscious Bias, Psychometrics, Personality at Work, How to Perform Well at Interview, Assessment Centre Design and the like. I have over 15 years' experience working across all areas of Occupational Psychology. Recent examples of my work include: - creating numerous situational judgement tests for graduate programmes - designing realistic job previews for banking and armed forces clients - delivering over 1,000 psychometric questions for major test publishers - assessing and developing senior leaders in an insurance firm - training buyers at a major food retailer in how to negotiate with their suppliers. - team build event at Tate Britain using MBTI International assignments include work in Barcelona, Egypt, France, Hong Kong, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and Sweden. * more formally, I am a Chartered Psychologist, Registered Occupational Psychologist with the Health Professionals Council and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. But that doesn't sound as catchy!
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Stuart is a public affairs and communications specialist advising organisations on all elements of their public affairs strategies including political and corporate communications and reputation management. He has also advised on a number of high profile media relations and crisis communications programmes. Stuart is an honorary research fellow at the University of Aberdeen and is the author of several books including ‘New Activism and the Corporate Response‘ (heralded as a book that “every aspiring business leader should read” by MIS Asia), ‘Public Affairs in Practice’ and ‘The Dictionary of Labour Quotations‘. His most recently published book, ‘Public Affairs: A Global Perspective’ has been called ‘an absolute treasure-trove’ and is a recommended read by the Government Communication Service (GCS). Stuart regularly writes and lectures on a range of business and political issues and as well as blogging for BDB he contributes to the Huffington Post and has written for the CBI, (former) UKTI, Total Politics and LabourList. He is also an adviser to the Entrepreneurs Network (TEN) and a regular speaker and chair at conferences. He has appeared on Sky News, BBC 5 Live, BBC World, the Today programme and on Ukrainian TV and has been a judge for the Public Affairs News, PR Week, Public Affairs and the European Public Affairs awards. Stuart also trains for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) and PRCA
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I am a global government affairs professional experienced in developing organizational vision and executing strategic plans. I have organized and managed policy coalitions and advocacy initiatives to achieve legislative and regulatory goals. My subject matter expertise focus is intellectual property, technology, health care, data/privacy and women’s issues. I am actively engaged in organizations to advance women in leadership positions. Additionally, I serve as a volunteer board member for the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the Women's Congressional Golf Association (WCGA). Further, I am an improv and comedy expert who has been trained to help groups and individuals. Following is my LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellesaraking
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I am many things: an entrepreneur, an EU policy advisor, a podcaster, a workplace transformer, a volunteer and a mum. After a 14 year career in European Public Affairs and running EU advocacy and communication campaigns, I co-founded my company the WorkLife HUB in 2014. We help companies create vibrant workplaces for employees to thrive. I am producing the WorkLife HUB podcast, which has 5000 listeners in over 20 countries.
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Now with a PhD in the psychology of human values and wellbeing, Jackie originally qualified as a behavioural ecology. After her first degree Jackie spent two years helping to reintroduce chimpanzees to the wild in River Gambia National Park. Subsequently her career has meandered through different roles in nature conservation and economic regeneration to the present day and specialising in values and culture - still working with behaviour within a context but the jungle is much more concrete nowadays. As a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and a member of the CMI Subject Matter Experts Group Jackie champions the part that values play in individual and collective performance and advocate for more consciously values based cultures in workplaces large and small. Values are a golden thread through all types and sizes of organisation. Values are key to understanding the 'why' behind 'what' gets decided and acted upon. Jackie has been working with one of the world’s leading values profiling tools since 2005 employing it with individuals, groups, teams, consortia and partnerships. Frequently values consciousness positively changes working practice and performance and sometimes even literally transform lives. While the theory of values and culture is interesting stuff, it is the everyday stories of real people and how values awareness can create meaning, increasing motivation, that audiences find really fascinating.
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Rabbi Avi Tawil is currently Director of the European Jewish Community Centre (EJCC), a Brussels based non-profit organisation that promotes Jewish Culture in Europe. The EJCC highlights the roots of Jewish culture in the European family for over millennia and its contribution to an inclusive European culture. In addition to that, it aims to encourage those who identify with Jewish culture to welcome our common responsibility and duty to the European Project which we are proud to belong. He was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied rabbinical studies, Jewish Philosophy, and Kabalah in the Rabbinical College of Canada in Montreal, Seminar of Jewish studies in Manchester, UK and at the Yeshivah Gedolah in Safed, Israel. He was ordained as Rabbi in the headquarters of Chabad in Brooklyn, NY, and taught Jewish Philosophy in the Yeshivah Gedolah of Buenos Aires. During 2001–2003 he was responsible for educational and humanitarian programmes with the Jewish community of Cuba and Patagonia. Since 2004, he lives in Brussels, Belgium with his wife and four young children, where he has developed a number of cultural projects aimed at intercultural dialogue in Europe. He has participated in several lectures and conferences where he advocated for better understanding and mutual respect between cultures and religions.
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Fields of interest: Brussels, Germany, Europe, Society of Jesus Alain Deneef (born in 1960) is a Belgian entrepreneur, urban expert and coalition builder. He is currently intendant of Brussels Metropolitan, a Belgian employers’ coalition at federal (Federation of Belgian Enterprises (FEB-VBO)) and regional (Brussels Entreprises Commerce and Industry (BECI), VOKA and Union wallonne des entreprises (UWE)) levels. As an expert in urban issues and civil society, he is the founder and president of Aula Magna, a Brussels based think-tank created in 2005. He helped to launch and coordinate in 2008 the Citizen’s Forum of Brussels, a unique effort in mobilizing civil society around the future of Brussels. This endeavor won the Flemish Prijs voor de Democratie in July 2010. As businessman, he has held top management positions in Canal+ Belgium (deputy general manager), Belgacom (Executive Vice-President) and the SNCB - the Belgian railway company (Chairman of the Board), among others, and several positions as director in BT Belgium, CIT Blaton and Carmeuse. Currently a strategic consultant, he helps medium and large organizations foresee the impact of technological, financial, social, demographic, environmental, urban and political change on their future. He has served as president of a number of clubs and associations amongst which the Alumni association of the Jesuit Collège Saint-Michel (Bruxelles). Since August 2013, he is the president of the World Union of Jesuit Alumni (WUJA). He was also president of the Brussels chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) and is currently a member of the World Presidents’ Organization (WPO). He is also the Executive Officer of the European Quarter Fund, a corporate fund managed by the King Baudouin Foundation, which acts as a bridge between public and private actors in the European Quarter in Brussels. Closely linked to the latter, he is also involved as president in the European Quarter Area Management Association (EQuAMA), which endeavors to animate public spaces and to create events in this area of Brussels. In the sport field, he is the Secretary General of the European Sports Academy (ESA), which aims at creating a center of excellence for the Belgian and European sporting elite. He is further a director of the Brussels Studies Institute. He was educated at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where he obtained the degrees of Business Engineer (Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management) and Law and Philosophy (1984). He is currently finalizing a Master in History at the same university. He is fluent in French, Dutch, English and German. He lives in Ixelles (Brussels Region).
$251 - $1,500