Heather Cameron is a Canadian and British social theorist and social entrepreneur. She is the Michael B. Kaufman Professor of Practice in Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. [1] From 2008 to 2016 she was a Junior Professor of Physical Activity, Inclusion and Sport at the Department of Education and Psychology at the Free University of Berlin and Professor Extraordinarius at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. [2]
Heather Cameron studied philosophy, political science and history in Toronto and Berlin and received her doctorate in 2002 from York University, Canada, in "Social and Political Thought" with a thesis on Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud and social critique. She held a post-doctoral award from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council at the Center for Technology and Society at the Technische Universitat Berlin. She also taught at the School of Communications at the Simon Fraser University. Vancouver, Canada.
Cameron is a leader in the Sport for social development movement. She was a founding member of the "Sport for Social Change Network" in East and South Africa and was an early advisory board member to the international foundation for women's sports "Women Win” Cameron also works with the German International Development Cooperation on behalf of the German and Afghan governments to support girls education and sport in Afghanistan.
The organization "Boxgirls International", which she founded in 2005 has received several awards, including the "Special Prize of the Chancellor" in the StartSocial competition by Chancellor Angela Merkel personally. [3] Cameron helped local activists in Kenya start Boxgirls Kenya and programs in South Africa. Boxgirls has been included as a case study by the IOC and UN Women. [4]
Boxgirls is a project of Camp Group, limited liability charitable organisation, a "Think and Do tank" that offers consulting services and expertise on a variety of topics related to nonprofit, nongovernmental organizations, and social entrepreneurship. [5]
Now, at Washington University in St. Louis, Cameron also manages the Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab. [6] [7] The lab works on questions of community advancement through entrepreneurship.
Technische Universität Berlin is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was the first German university to adopt the name "Technische Universität".
The Humboldt University of Berlin is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany.
The Free University of Berlin is a public research university in Berlin. It was founded in West Berlin in 1948 with American support during the early Cold War period as a Western continuation of the Friedrich Wilhelm University, or the University of Berlin, whose traditions and faculty members it retained. The Friedrich Wilhelm University, being in East Berlin, faced strong communist repression; the Free University's name referred to West Berlin's status as part of the Western Free World, contrasting with communist-controlled East Berlin.
The Berlin-Brandenburg capital region is one of the most prolific centers of higher education and research in the world. It is the largest concentration of universities and colleges in Germany. The city has four public research universities and 27 private, professional and technical colleges (Hochschulen), offering a wide range of disciplines. Access to the German university system is tuition free.
The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano is a university primarily located in Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy. It was founded on 31 October 1997 and is organized into five faculties with courses taught in German, Italian, and English.
Alois Riedler was a noted Austrian mechanical engineer, and, as professor in Germany, a vigorous proponent of practically oriented engineering education.
Albrecht Wellmer was a German philosopher at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Beth Simone Noveck is a professor at Northeastern University and the 1st Chief AI Strategist for the State of New Jersey. She previously served as founding Chief Innovation Officer of New Jersey. At Northeastern, she directs the Burnes Center for Social Change and its partner project, The Governance Lab. She is also affiliated faculty with the Institute for Experiential AI. She is the author of Solving Public Problems: How to Fix our Government and Change Our World, Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Government, Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful, and co-editor of the State of Play: Law and Virtual Worlds.
Peter David Laufer is an independent American journalist, broadcaster and documentary filmmaker working in traditional and new media. He is the James Wallace Chair in Journalism at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.
Annabelle Boettcher is a German professor, expert on Syria and advisor for the humanitarian aid industry.
Sabina Jeschke is a German university professor for information sciences in mechanical engineering at the RWTH Aachen University. As of 10 November 2017, she was named member of the management board of Deutschen Bahn AG for digitalization and technology. She is also the director of the Cybernetics Lab IMA/ZLW & IfU. In the summer semester of 2017, she is on sabbatical leave to develop her research in the area of artificial consciousness, and is involved in building a think tank "Strong Artificial Intelligence" at the Volvo Car Corporation in Göteborg. Since May 2015, Jeschke has been a member of the supervisory board of Körber AG, since April 2012 chairman of the board of VDI Aachen. Beginning of January 2023 she took on an additional position as a senior advisor at Arthur D. Little.
Sigrid Quack is a German social scientist working in the field of comparative sociology. She is a professor of sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, where she is the Director of the Centre for Global Cooperation Research, and was a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University.
The Center for Global Politics is an academic institute that offers several international programs and certificates at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of Freie Universität Berlin. It was founded in 2007 and is directed by Prof. Dr. Klaus Segbers. The Center for Global Politics offers the blended learning Master of Arts programs International Relations Online and East European Studies Online, the German-Chinese Graduate School of Global Politics, the one-year supplementary diploma course German Studies Russia, various Seasonal Schools and professional training certificates.
Angelika Neuwirth is a German Islamic studies scholar and professor of Qur’anic studies at Freie University in Berlin.
Michael Goebel is a German historian. Since 2021, he has been Einstein Professor of Global History at Freie Universität Berlin.
Valeria Vegh Weis is an Argentinean-German Author. She specializes in criminology, criminal law, international criminal law and transitional justice. Vegh Weis is a Research Fellow at Konstanz Universität Zukunftskolleg, where she focuses on the role of victims organizations to confront state crimes. She is also an adjunct professor at Buenos Aires University and Quilmes National University. She is the Vice President of the Instituto Latinoamericano de Criminología y Desarrollo Social. Vegh Weis won several awards, including the Critical Criminology of the Year Award by the American Society of Criminology.
Jutta Heckhausen is Professor of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine. She specializes in life-span developmental psychology, motivation, individual agency and social context. She expanded her education at the Center for Social and Behavioral Science, Stanford University and at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University Bielefeld, Germany. At the Department of Psychological Science at University of California, Irvine, she teaches in the areas of life-span development and motivational psychology.
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Cecilia Clementi is an Italian-American scientist who specialises in the simulation of biomolecules. She is a Professor of Computational Biophysics at the Free University of Berlin. She was previously a Professor of Chemistry at the Rice University and co-director of the National Science Foundation Molecular Sciences Software Institute. From 2017 to 2019 she held an Einstein Foundation fellowship.
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