Michelle is a practitioner scholar with research interests in leadership, equity and inclusion, and climate change and adaptation. Michelle works in health and technology, and is Associate Faculty in the Master’s of Disaster and Emergency Management program, School of Humanitarian Studies at Royal Roads University in British Columbia, Canada.

Masahiro Takimoto is a professor at College of Science and Engineering at Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan. His current research has been the application of cognitive linguistics in foreign language teaching. He completed his Ed.M.at Harvard University, his Ed.D. at Temple University in the USA, his first Ph.D. at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and his second Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo in Japan.

Dr. Ghazala Mir is Associate Professor of Health Equity and Inclusion at the University of Leeds with research interests in health and social inequalities. Her research focuses on the experience of people underserved by health and other public services and she has led work to highlight key research priorities in this field. She leads the multidisciplinary Inequalities Research Network and the International Partnerships for Equity and Inclusion, which bring together academics, advocacy organizations, public services practitioners and policymakers to help reduce the inequalities that affect disadvantaged groups. Her research has been published by the UN Research Institute for Social Development and as case studies of good practice by the Chief Medical Officer and the Economic and Social Research Council.

Dr. Claudia Landolfi is an Italian philosopher and essayist. She is a Ph.D. in Ethics, Political  Philosophy and Philosophy of Law. She gained a MA in Philosophy and a MA in Psychology.