Dr Althea-Maria Rivas Althea-Maria Rivas is Senior Lecturer in Global Development, Peace and Conflict at SOAS.
Haewon Lee Unesco multinational nomination - Intangible cultural heritage - Conservation/safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage - Ritual performance - Vietnam - Southeast Asia.
Ms Sharowat Shamin Sharowat Shamin teaches law at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. She did her LLM in International Environmental and Energy Law from the University of Oslo, Norway with fully-funded Norwegian Government Quota Scheme Scholarship. Earlier she completed another LLM in International and Comparative Law and LLB (Honours) from the University of Dhaka. Her research interest lies in the fields of climate change and energy law, human rights, and constitutional law and she published several papers on these topics.
Catherine Tuhirirwe Catherine Tuhirirwe, is a PhD Researcher Student in the Department of Finance and Management, completing a Thesis titled: The Impact of Chinese Investment Loans on sustainable economic development in Africa: Case Studies of Kenya, Senegal, Uganda, and Zambia. Research interests: Development finance, Debt management, Public investment, Infrastructural development, China in Africa, International Finance, Combating financial crime, Financial law, Management, and Education.
Miho Zlazli Miho is originally from Okinawa Island in the Ryukyus, Japan. She is in the writing up stage of their PhD thesis, which sheds light on unspoken voices of new speakers and other people in the context of language revitalization of Ryukyuan languages through (collaborative) autoethnography and ethnography. Miho changed the original action research plan of Master/Mentor-Apprentice language learning initiative (MAI-Ryukyus.com) to autoethnography due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Professor William Lazonick William Lazonick is President of the Academic-Industry Research Network and Professor Emeritus of Economics at University of Massachusetts Lowell. He has professorial affiliations with SOAS, University of London and Institut Mines-Télécom in Paris.