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Sanjeev Khagram is a world-renowned scholar and practitioner in the areas of globalization, transnationalism, leadership, strategic management, entrepreneurship, social enterprise, cross-sector innovation, public-private partnerships, inter-organizational networks, good governance, transparency, the global political economy, sustainable development, human security, and the data revolution. He holds a bachelor's in development studies and engineering, a master's degree and doctoral degree minor in economics and doctorate in political economy, all from Stanford University.

Professor Khagram most recently led the establishment of the cross-sectoral Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and International Open Data Charter. He also previously founded and was the architect of the multi-stakeholder Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT). Khagram was selected as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and authored UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon鈥檚 Report on the Impacts of the Global Economic Crisis in 2009. He was dean of the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre, Foundation and Trust from 2003-2005, and he was Senior Policy and Strategy Director at the World Commission on Dams where he was the lead writer of the Commission鈥檚 widely acclaimed Final Report from 1998-2000. Khagram also founded and led Innovations for Scaling Impact 鈥� a global enterprise from 2007-2012.

Khagram was the John Parke Young Professor of Global Political Economy, Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College from 2012鈥�18. He was previously a Professor and the Founding Director of the Center for International Development at the University of Washington. From 2008鈥�10, he held the Wyss Visiting Professorship at the Harvard Business School. Khagram was an Associate (and Assistant) Professor at Harvard University鈥檚 JFK School of Government and Visiting Professor at Stanford University鈥檚 Institute of International Studies between 1998鈥�2005. He has also taught in numerous universities around the world including the Monterrey Institute of Technology (Mexico), Tata Institute of Social Sciences (India), Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy (Singapore), University of Cape Town (South Africa), University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and Central European University (Hungary). 

Professor Khagram has published widely including: "Dams and Development," (Cornell University Press); "Restructuring World Politics: Transnational Social Movements, Networks and Norms" (University of Minnesota Press); "The Transnational Studies Reader" (Routledge Press); "Open Budgets: The Political Economy of Transparency, Participation and Accountability" (Brookings Press). In addition, he's authored "Inequality and Corruption" in the American Journal of Sociology; "Future Architectures of Global Governance" in Global Governance, "Environment and Security" in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 鈥淪ocial Balance Sheets鈥� in Harvard Business Review, 鈥淓vidence for Development Effectiveness鈥� in the Journal of Development Effectiveness, and 鈥淭owards a Platinum Standard for Evidence-Based Assessment,鈥� in Public Administration Review.

Khagram has worked extensively with global start-ups, corporations, governments, civil society groups, multilateral organizations, cross-sectoral action networks, public-private partnerships, foundations, professional associations and universities all over the world from the local to the international levels. He has lived and worked for extended periods in Brazil, India, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Thailand, Germany and the United Kingdom. Khagram is of Asian Indian heritage, a Hindu, and a refugee from Idi Amin鈥檚 Uganda, which brought him to the United States in 1973 via refugee camps in Italy.  He is the proud father of two sons.

Education
Ph.D. Global Political Economy, Stanford University 1999
Ph.D. (Minor in) Economics, Food Research Institute, Stanford University 1998
M.A. Economics and Policy, Food Research Institute, Stanford University 1993
B.A. Development Studies and Engineering, Self-Designed Major, Stanford University 1990

Eric Wang is the Senior Director of Machine Intelligence at Turnitin, focusing on leveraging AI to improve learning experiences and promote academic integrity around the world. Eric is a leader in developing applications of AI for academia, government laboratories and industry, and he specializes in developing and deploying AI that emphasizes fairness, accessibility and transparency. He holds a BS and a PhD in Electrical and Computer engineering from The Ohio State University and Duke University, respectively. 

Sanjeev Khagram is a world-renowned expert in global leadership, the international political economy, sustainable development and the data revolution. 

Khagram has worked extensively with global start-ups, corporations, governments, civil society groups, nonprofit organizations, cross-sectoral action networks, public-private partnerships, foundations, professional associations and universities all over the world.

Khagram is dean and director general of Thunderbird School of Global Management, ASU Foundation Professor of Global Leadership, and a member of ASU's Global Institute of Sustainability's board of directors.

As the dean of Thunderbird School of Global Management, Khagram envisions Thunderbird as intensely focused on its founding mission to bring peace to the world through commerce. 

David Hondula's research focuses on the societal effects of weather and climate with an emphasis on extreme weather and health.

As assistant professor in the School of Geographical Science and Urban Planning, his recent projects include statistical analysis of health and environmental data sets to learn more about how high temperatures affect human morbidity and mortality, especially within urban areas, including Phoenix. 

His latest research considers how to facilitate effective governance and communication strategies for climate adaptation with the aim of reducing unnecessary weather-related illnesses and deaths.

Hondula is the director of the Association of American Geographers' Climate Specialty Group and is a member of the American Meteorological Society.

Tim Richards鈥� research focuses on applied econometrics with respect to food markets and food policy issues, particularly quantitative marketing, data analytics, retailing strategy, agricultural labor and food policy.

Richards is the Morrison Chair in Agribusiness in the W. P. Carey School of Business and teaches managerial economics, strategic pricing for retailers, and risk management and insurance. He also does extensive consulting work in the food retailing and manufacturing industries for clients that include Walmart, Kroger, SuperValu, Hormel, Sara Lee, JBS Swift, Foster Farms, and a number of others.

David Markowitz is an academic expert in automated text analysis and psychological dynamics. At the University of Oregon, he is an assistant professor of social media data analytics. He researches what our digital traces reveal about us, using computational approaches to analyze how social and psychological phenomena鈥攕uch as deception, persuasion, and status鈥攁re reflected in language. He also evaluates how the communication processes we perform on various media, including mobile phones and immersive virtual reality, can reveal what we are thinking, feeling, and experiencing psychologically. For example, his dissertation investigated the psychological and physiological consequences of using, resisting, or being without one鈥檚 mobile device. He received his PhD from Stanford University and his Masters and undergraduate degrees from Cornell University.

Suresh Acharya has spent over 25 years designing and building statistical and optimization solutions in the areas of Supply Chain Management, Retail Planning, Airline Operations, Logistics, and Pricing and Revenue Management. As a practicing analytics professional, he continues to work with Fortune 500 companies in delivering practical algorithmic solutions that demonstrate measurable customer value.

Amin Mirkouei is an associate professor of renewable and sustainable manufacturing in College of Engineering at University of Idaho, certified professional engineer (PE), experienced technologist, and sustainability contributor at Forbes Magazine. He has over 11 years of experience contributing and leading cross-disciplinary projects in decarbonization technologies, renewable materials, sustainable energy systems, design and manufacturing, cyber-physical control and optimization, and operations research, particularly renewable fuels, green chemicals, and rare earth elements and minerals from various waste streams, such as biomass feedstocks, plastics wastes, e-wastes, and animal manure. He is a major advisor in industrial technology, mechanical engineering, biological engineering, and environmental science programs at U of I in Idaho Falls, where he directs the Renewable and Sustainable Manufacturing Laboratory (RSML). RSML aims to maintain many research opportunities that can positively impact all segments of sustainable manufacturing, especially sustainable food-energy-water systems (FEWS). For further information, visit the .