Vanroth Vann
Vanroth holds a Masters degree in business administration, and has been working with children and youth in his community since 2002 in an effort to improve their education and livelihoods. He has created many youth development and empowerment programs, including English and computer classes, soccer-based leadership programs, community clean-up and other environmental protection programs, and […]
Cyrilla Amanya
Cyrilla holds a Masters degree in development studies, a Bachelors degree in law and social sciences. She is a research director and coordinates different programs at ACE Africa Kenya focusing in the areas of child development, community health and wellbeing, community livelihoods and research which are embedded under each program area. She has conducted research […]
Maryam Al-Khalaf
Maryam Al-Khalaf is a Research Associate at the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), an initiative of Qatar Foundation. Maryam’s main research focus areas include educational leadership, higher education, entrepreneurship education, wellbeing and learning sciences and social and emotional learning. Prior to WISE, she worked in the corporate sector and managed special projects, new business, […]
Kathryn Whetten
Dr. Whetten’s work focuses on understanding health disparities focusing on life course events and social and environmental factors that influence health-related behaviors and wellbeing. All of Dr. Whetten’s research is grounded in the idea that public policies can make a difference in people’s lives. Dr. Whetten received their PhD in health policy and administration from […]
Shruti Taneja-Johansson
Shruti holds a PhD in education and has degrees in psychology and in the multidisciplinary field of child and childhood studies. Her research interests include educational equity and inclusive education, with a focus on persons with disabilities. Shruti’s research spans compulsory and secondary education to higher education.
Nidhi Singal
Nidhi has worked extensively with children and young people with disabilities in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Her research examines the educational experiences of children with disabilities, the quality of teaching and learning in mainstream classrooms, and the impact of schooling.
Aemiro Tadesse Mergia
Aemiro studied Special Needs Education at Addis Ababa University with an MA degree. In his career, he started from grassroots and worked to high levels assigned to different positions which helped him to enhance equitable inclusion in education in Ethiopia. Mainly, he worked as an Inclusive Education Advisor for Regional Education Bureaus and the Federal […]
Niraj Poudyal
Niraj teaches econometrics, macroeconomics, and education economics at graduate and undergraduate level. He has a doctoral degree in economics from Virginia Tech. He has been working with Disability Research Center (DRC) at Kathmandu University School of Arts since 2015 as lead researcher and collaborator. He has worked mainly in the areas of data on disability […]
Omar Zaki
Omar is a Senior Research Associate at WISE, where he contributes to the organization›s events, research publications and programmes. Prior to his current position, Omar interned at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) where he was based in the Governance and Public Sector Management section of the Macroeconomic Policy Division.
Ali Sani Side
Side, Ali Sani is a professional in the area of inclusive education for the last 11 years. He has a Bachelor and Master Degree in Special Needs Education from Addis Ababa University and will be defending his PhD Dissertation on Parental Stress and coping strategies among parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Ethiopia. […]