Philip Ayoub is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy at UCL. He also serves as Co-editor of the European Journal of Politics & Gender. He received his PhD from the Department of Government at Cornell University in 2013, after obtaining a BA from the University of Washington and MA degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Cornell University. He also spent time as Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, as Assistant and Associate Professor at Drexel University, and as Associate Professor at Occidental College.
Silvia holds a degree in Socio-economic and Statical studies and a PhD in Socio-economic Sciences. She's a Senior Researcher in the Social Justice Area. She's deeply interested in gender equality, European Union, social policies, anti-discrimination practices and social inclusion.
Nadia E. Brown (Ph.D., Rutgers University) is a Professor of Government, chair of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and affiliate in the African American Studies program at Georgetown University. She specializes in Black women’s politics and holds a graduate certificate in Women's and Gender Studies. Dr. Brown's research interests lie broadly in identity politics, legislative studies, and Black women's studies. While trained as a political scientist, her scholarship on intersectionality seeks to push beyond disciplinary constraints to think more holistically about the politics of identity.
From 2014, she was a member of the cabinet of the Commissioner for justice, consumer protection and gender equality in Brussels, and in 2019, she joined the cabinet of the European Commission Vice-President for values and transparency. A lawyer by training, she has long-standing experience of working in the NGO sector as well as in a global corporation. Throughout her professional career, she has been promoting European values and working in the field of European integration. After graduating from the Faculty of Law of Charles University and Columbia University in New York City, she worked for the Czech Helsinki Committee, a non-profit organization advocating for human rights. She then spent 10 years at the helm of Open Society Fund Praha, a foundation focusing on strengthening democracy, eliminating discrimination and fighting corruption. She then worked at IBM Czech Republic as a corporate social responsibility manager.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2021 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N° 101061687.
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