| Simon Burall is the Director of Involve. He has long and extensive experience the fields of democratic reform, governance, public participation, stakeholder engagement, and accountability and transparency. He has worked at the national level in Africa, Asia and Europe as well as on related issues of global governance and democracy. |
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Lyn Carson was the founding Academic Program Director of the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and is now one of its Adjunct Professors. She is currently Professor in applied politics, with the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy at the University of Western Sydney. |
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Charles Kenny is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation. Previously, he worked at the World Bank, managing projects and research in infrastructure as well as governance and anticorruption. |
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Thomas Pogge is the Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University. Having received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard, he has published widely on Kant and in moral and political philosophy, most recently, Politics as Usual. His current work is focused on a team effort toward developing a complement to the pharmaceutical patent regime that would improve access to advanced medicines for the poor worldwide (www.healthimpactfund.org). |
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Cat Tully is an independent consultant working on foreign and development policy issues. Cat was formerly Strategy Project Director at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. She has also previously worked in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, developing domestic policy and strategic capability, including a strategic audit of the UK. Cat has also worked for the UN Deputy Secretary General’s office on the UN reform process, Global Compact, UN Development Programme, and with the World Bank in Geneva. |
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Carissa Veliz is a Ph.D. student in the Philosophy Department at the City University of New York, Graduate Center and at the University of Salamanca. She is interested in moral psychology, ethics, bioethics, philosophy of mind, and Buddhist philosophy and practice. |








