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Atiq Zaman
Mohammad Swapan
Supriya Pattanayak
Vice Chancellor, Centurion University of Technology and Management, India
Supriya Pattanayak
Vice Chancellor, Centurion University of Technology and Management, India
Professor Supriya Pattanayak, currently serving as the Vice Chancellor of the Centurion University of Technology and Management (CUTM) in Odisha, India. Professor Pattanayak, holds a distinguished academic background, she has qualified from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (MA), Mumbai, the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (MPhil), Bengaluru in India, and a PhD from RMIT University in Australia. She has extensive experience in teaching, research, and policy development, with a dedicated focus on gender and development issues, as well as social work pedagogy across diverse settings. Throughout her career, she has actively collaborated with a spectrum of stakeholders, spanning NGOs, multilateral and bilateral agencies, federal and state governments, and universities in both India and Australia. Professor Pattanayak is involved as an Industry Liaison Person at the School of Global Studies, RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Additionally, she holds a Research Fellow position at the St Petersburg State University in Russia. Further, she is a Director in several companies: Esse Naturals and Nutrition Private Limited, Global Competency Assessment and Accreditation Guilds Private Limited, to name a few. She is also on the Board of Governors of the Chetana’s Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, India. She has several publications to her credit: Positioning Research: Shifting Paradigms, Interdisciplinarity and Indigeneity(Sage Publications): Social Exclusion and Policies of Inclusion: Issues and Perspectives across the Globe (Springer, 2022) and most recently a chapter entitled, Skill Integration in Higher Education: Curriculum for Sustainability in Higher Education for the Sustainable Development Goals: Bridging the global north and south (Emerald Publishing, 2024).
Mohammad Swapan
Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning and the Co-director of Global South Nexus at Curtin University
Mohammad Swapan
Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning and the Co-director of Global South Nexus at Curtin University
Mohammad Swapan is an Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning and the Co-director of Global South Nexus at Curtin University. Swapan has a PhD (Urban and Regional Planning) awarded in 2013 from Curtin University, Australia; He received a Master of Environmental Studies in 2007 from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and a Bachelor of Urban and Rural Planning (BURP) in 2001 from Khulna University, Bangladesh. Swapan’s research interests include water sensitive cities, liveability, urban park management and urban informality. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and numerous book chapters, which have received more than 1000 citations. He is also leading a number of national and local research projects in Australia.
Smita Mishra Panda
Professor at the Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha.
Smita Mishra Panda
Professor at the Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha.
Smita Mishra Panda is Professor at the Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha. She coordinates the doctoral programme at the University. She has a background in Social Anthropology (Masters, Delhi University) and Development Planning and Gender Studies (Ph.D, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand). Her teaching and research focus primarily on gender and development, natural resource management (climate change, livelihoods, policies and institutions), governance, rural development, indigenous people’s life and livelihoods and transgender issues. She has more than 30 years of teaching, research and consulting experience in South East Asia and India. Smita has worked as a researcher at the Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand); UN Researcher at the UNCRD (Nagoya, Japan); taught at the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (Gujarat); and has been a visiting faculty at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway), Monash University (Australia) and Curtin University (Australia). Widely travelled, she has presented papers in several national and international conferences. She has also published extensively in a number of scholarly journals. Smita has authored Engendering Governance Institutions: State, Market and Civil Society (Sage, 2008); Co-authored Gender, Mobilities and Livelihood Transformations: Comparing indigenous people in China, India and Laos (Routledge London, 2013); Co-authored Social Exclusion and Policies of Inclusion: Issues and Perspectives across the Globe (Springer, 2022).
Atiq Zaman
Associate Professor specializing in circular economy and zero waste practices at the Curtin University
Atiq Zaman
Associate Professor specializing in circular economy and zero waste practices at the Curtin University
Dr. Atiq Zaman is an Associate Professor specializing in circular economy and zero waste practices at the Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute, Curtin University, Western Australia. He is a member of the UN Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition (CEET), an independent advisory council to the United Nations Secretary-General. Additionally, Dr. Zaman serves as the Curtin Node Leader for the Australian National Environmental Science Program on Sustainable Communities and Waste Hub, funded by the Commonwealth Government. He holds the Circular Economy Theme Lead role at the Curtin Institute for Energy Transition. Dr. Zaman is also a founding Co-director of the Global South Nexus, a research cluster promoting collaboration between the global North and South. He co-authored the book "Zero-Waste: Reconsidering Waste Management for the Future," published by Routledge.
Shahed Khan
Adjunct Associate Professor Curtin University
Shahed Khan
Adjunct Associate Professor Curtin University