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Dr Silvia Emili is a researcher and consultant with a background in strategic design for sustainability, sustainable business model innovation, energy access, and with experience in several African countries.

Silvia holds a PhD from Brunel University London which focused on developing capabilities of companies and practitioners for designing sustainable energy solutions in low-income and developing contexts. She developed a strategic design toolkit (Sustainable Energy for All Design Toolkit, www.se4alldesigntoolkit.com) that includes tools for mapping, classifying and designing business models for energy access. These tools have been used with over 80 companies, practitioners and experts across several African countries. Her PhD research collects over 50 case studies of companies operating in emerging markets, as well as an extensive catalogue of critical factors and successful examples to support ventures entering in this field.

In parallel to her PhD, Silvia worked on EU-funded and EPSRC-funded projects in collaboration with European and African partners. She has extensive experience in carrying out workshops and training activities with companies and non-profits in Kenya, Botswana, Ghana and South Africa. With a strong background in design for sustainability, her previous work includes research on sustainable mobility for disadvantaged communities in Cape Town. She holds a Masters degree from Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

Mariah Cannon is a Researcher with a Masters in International Development. Her current work focuses on children’s and youth participation in promoting children’s rights and is interested in sustainable, community-led, environmentally conscious development.

She is highly skilled in a range of research activities as well as convening and coordinating logistics of large-scale, multi-stakeholder events. She has two years of overseas experience in Ho Chi Ming City, Vietnam volunteering with UNICEF and teaching with a regional intergovernmental organization which promotes cooperation in education, science and culture throughout Southeast Asia. Previously, she worked for a non-profit in Oakland, CA providing outreach, fundraising and grant writing skills.

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Faculty of Administrative Sciences, Central University of Ecuador, Quito 170521, Ecuador;
valbuja@uce.edu.ec (V.A.C.)

Faculty of Administrative Sciences, Central University of Ecuador, Quito 170521, Ecuador;
dmmantilla@uce.edu.ec (D.M.G.)

University Department of Environmental Forestry Engineering and Management, University Research Institute Center I+D+I for Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable, Technical University of Madrid,28040 Madrid, Spain; sigfredo.ortuno@upm.es

E.T.S.I. Forestry and Natural Environment, Technical University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain; Faculty of Administrative Sciences, Central University of Ecuador, Quito 170521, Ecuador

Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein is a social anthropologist and the executive director of the Centre for Research on Architecture, Society and the Built Environment at ETH Zurich.

Her research focuses on housing policies and on the socioeconomic and institutional dimensions of housing and urban renewal. She recently completed the research project "Tackling the Global Housing Challenges: Relevance and Replicability of Switzerland's and Uruguay's Cooperative Housing Policies and Strategies," which was supported by the Swiss Network for International Studies. She is currently directing the international research project "Negotiating Space for Cooperative Housing in Latin America: The Case of Post-conflict Colombia and El Salvador," which is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Brian Tokar is an activist and author, and a long-time faculty and board member of the Institute for Social Ecology. His books include The Green Alternative, Earth for Sale, Toward Climate Justice and three edited volumes on biotechnology and food issues. His latest book is Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots Solutions (Routledge, 2020), coedited with Tamra Gilbertson.

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