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Alvin campaigns for policy changes to address poverty. In 2015 he ran the First Job Opportunities programme. First Job Opportunities are jobs-with-training for people in poverty who have never had a job. The first major success was the use of a procurement model which states that for every £1m spent on public procurement, one first job opportunity is created. Now, contracts in total worth over £760m are implementing the model. As a community organiser, Alvin led the Citizens’ Inquiry into the Tottenham Riots. This was the community-led response to the events that shocked England in the summer of 2011. This grassroots effort engaged 10,000 local people and led to jobs for young people and the suspension of section 60 stop and searches in the area. Alvin advises governments and global corporations on leadership and social impact. He is an advisor to a €5 million research project that is examining the obstacles and opportunities affecting youth employment in Europe. He is currently advising the government of Trinidad and Tobago to support the establishment of its statutory National Youth Commission. In 2014 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship to research how community leaders are addressing social exclusion across the US. Alvin has lectured at the University of Connecticut, has delivered keynote speeches in the House of Lords, and has debated in Cambridge Union. He has also appeared on CNN, BBC, Televisión Española, AFP, and Channel 4 to discuss politics and economics. He was selected to attend the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 in Davos. Before completing his master’s degree in social policy at the LSE, Alvin ran soup kitchens and did research for the think-tank Demos. He has also worked for the social business Catch22 focused on crime, youth justice, and gangs. Outside of work he has been boxing since he was 16 and is a former British Grand Champion of the Korean martial art Tang Soo Do and won bronze in the world competition.
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Insightful and inspiring teacher with a deep understanding of team/group dynamics.
$1,501 - $5,000
I've been user interface designer, sitebuilder, e-learning specialist and now my focus is on growing a happy, effective and value-oriented team. Building an agile company for me is a cultural factor, and is not a matter of methodology. I am surrounded by a couple of excellent problem solvers. I am not good in this. The connection means more to me than the answer. I prefer the piano to chess. Jiu jitsu to swimming. I am engaged in building trust among team members. I am motivated to form a working environment where everyone can find his/her voice and expectations. Where growth and flow determine each day. Where common practice dictates the schedule. I am moving on borderlines. When I get into something, I always start seeking other areas where I can adopt the new knowledge. I appreciate when something is easily defined, and I can join the process from the very beginning. In my free time I am looking for new topics, when I get obsessed by something, it happens that I get addicted for years. Newly I got caught by Brasilian jiu jitsu and bowing folk music for Transylvanian folk dance of Szék.
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Professor; Jean Monnet Chair ad personam
Prof. Sharon Pardo (Ph.D., Ghent University, Faculty of Political and Social Studies) is a Jean Monnet Chair ad personam in European studies in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Chair of the National Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence – the Centre for the Study of European Politics and Society (CSEPS), as well as the Chair of the Bologna Training Centre (BTC) at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is the co-editor of Europe and the World book series by Lexington Books. Prof. Pardo is an adjunct fellow at the National Centre for Research on Europe (NCRE), University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and a member of the Board of the Israel Council on Foreign Relations (ICFR). His research interests focus on the legal and political dimensions of European Union foreign and security policy. Prof. Pardo also has significant interest in the development of the Euro-Mediterranean region and in Israeli-European Union relations. He has published widely on these issues and is the author of Normative Power Europe Meets Israel: Perceptions and Realities (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015), and the co-author (with Joel Peters) of Israel and the European Union: A Documentary History (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012, 2014) and Uneasy Neighbors: Israel and the European Union (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010). Prof. Pardo teaches courses on the European integration process, diplomacy and public international law.
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Dr. Elizabeth O'Day is the CEO and founder of Olaris Therapeutics a pharmaceutical company that develops precision medicines for diseases with little to no treatment options and dismal survival rates. Olaris technology will fundamentally change how these diseases are treated and diagnosed. Dr. O'Day is also the founder of Lizzard Fashion, an apparel company that uses fashion to promote science. Like feedback loops studied by scientists, science inspires fashion and fashion supports science. Partial Lizzard proceeds support cancer research. Additionally, Dr. O'Day initiated Proyecto Chispa (Project Spark), which recycles electronics and uses the resale of parts to build computer centers in orphanages throughout Latin America. She is also the founder of "Women in Science & Technology" (WST) at Boston College. WST is in its 7th year and has provided over 500 high-school-aged females and college students the opportunity to learn about careers in science. Dr. O’Day received her PhD from Harvard University. where she was a National Science Foundation fellow. She was one of eleven America scientists awarded a Winston Churchill fellowship and received a Master’s of Philosophy in Chemistry from the University of Cambridge. She has a Bachelors of Science degree from Boston College in Biochemistry. She was awarded all of the nation’s top undergraduate research honors (Beckman scholar, Goldwater Scholar, Churchill Fellow, NSF Fellow, National Institute of Chemistry Excellence Award).
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Frank Fredericks is the founder of World Faith, a global interfaith development organization, and Mean Communications, a digital agency. After graduating from NYU, Frank worked in the music industry, managing artists such as Lady Gaga. In 2006, he founded World Faith, a youth-led interfaith organization active in 15 countries. As an active blogger, Frank has contributed to the Huffington Post, Washington Post, and Sojourners. Frank has been interviewed on Good Morning America, NPR, and New York Magazine. He is an alumnus of the IFYC Fellowship, Soliya Fellowship, AMENDS at Stanford, YouthActionNet Fellowship, and the Ariane de Rothschild Fellowship. Frank resides in New York with his wife, fervently reading, cooking, learning a language at any given time, and performing as a musician and songwriter. Frank is a Global Shapers Community Scholarship recipient at Oxford's Said Business School.
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CREATIVE - COMMITTED - COMMUNICATIVE - Content Creator experienced in copywriting, design, basic photography & videography - News Junkie, hungry for information, 24/7 monitoring of the web, on-the-spot communication skills, quick decision-making, good judgment, ability to be calm in the face of stress, ability to think globally - Community Manager & Facilitator: Resourceful, able to connect people and stimulate discussion, firm but empathetic, witty but professional. - Customer-oriented: strong communication skills, desire to solve others' problems, ability to troubleshoot and know where to pass a complex question - Project Manager: Strong organization skills, vision, ability to negotiate, convince and make data-based decisions. - Marketing Analyst who conducts data analysis, gets excited from opinion polls, extremely curious. - Expert who likes to share expertise on social media best practices
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Author of 'Hyperthinking', Phil Weiss is an entrepreneur and strategic thinker who has been working with leading corporations for the past two decades. He speaks for corporate and business audiences around the world on range of topic related to disruption, innovation and technology. He founded ZN (www.zn.be) the leading digital agency working with companies, political institutions like the European Commission and Parliament and organisations on how to use the Internet to integrate and transform business and communication. He works with such household names as Toyota, Microsoft, Sony, Sanofi Pasteur, UCB and various industry associations. His Hyperthinking model was developed to enable the ZN team and their clients manage rapid change and innovation to adapt their strategies and structures to the age of networks. Whilst studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford, Philip Weiss launched two college magazines, started the first student radio station on a full FM licence in the UK, and received the Young Achievers Award from HM the Queen. In 2009, Philip helped co-found TEDxBrussels (tedxbrussels.eu). He was chairman of IABC Europe (International Association of Business Communicators: http://europe.iabc.com/) in 2012 and organised Eurocomm, the regional conference of the organisation in Brussels. In 2012, he wrote the book 'Hyperthinking', defining the mindset needed to survive and thrive in the age of networks. Information on the book can be found at www.hyperthinking.net. He blogs at hyperthinker.com. In 2013 he spoke at TEDxGateway in Mumbai (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kFziFmP_-k) and at TEDxULB in Brussels in 2014 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgTivMHlfpc). Specialties: Hyperthinking, e-campaigning, strategic thinking, internet communication
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Gulika Reddy is a human rights lawyer and the Founder of Schools of Equality. She is currently a Human Rights LL.M. Fellow at Columbia University. In the past, she has worked with lawyers, non-profits and academic institutions on the rights of: women and children, indigenous communities, climate refugees, and slum-dwellers.
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Franklin Morales is a Panamanian, internationally experienced professional, specialist in youth leadership and talent development. He is a Political Attaché for the Embassy of Panama to the United States of America, also coordinating one of the main educational programs of the Panamanian Government with this country. In 2009 he worked as Global Sales and Marketing Manager for AIESEC International, as the first Panamanian to be part of the leadership team of the largest youth driven organisation in the world. Following that, in 2010, he joined the Global Talent Management team of Electrolux in Sweden where he coordinated the corporation’s internship program. In 2012 he returned to Panama where he joined a prestigious legal firm as Marketing and Communications Director. There, he also cofounded a social project with the objective of developing leadership skills in young students in Panama.
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Nuclear Engineer, Giovanni studied in Italy and Sweden in the Polytechnic Universities ofTurin and Milan and in KTH of Stockholm. Then he started working in France on new reactors design for a challenging project concerning Generation IV Nuclear Reactors. Joint CERN, Geneva, on medical applications of CERN technologies, developing new generations of particle accelerators for cancer treatment. Co-founder of Bizanami, a web-based platform providing help and support in every step of the company development - from the idea to the final product - thanks to an automatic software in a web based platform. With this tool, every aspiring entrepreneur without access to mentors and incubators will find a way to develop his business idea. Head of the Italian Delegation at the Youth Summit of the G20 in Sydney 2014.
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