Meet the Fellows

Hina joined us in December 2022 as our new Hoffmann Fellow on Circular Economy Policy with the Australia National University.

During her Fellowship, she will focus on researching key regulatory challenges and corresponding opportunities for 4IR circular solutions.

Hina carries a strong educational background of Environmental Sciences and management with a doctorate degree in Ecology from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, and a Master’s in Environmental Engineering and Sciences from Beijing Institute of technology, China. In recognition to her performance in research, she is the recipient of several excellence awards, including the “Role of honors award” in bachelor’s degree (in Environmental sciences), “Excellent student Award” in master’s degree and “Presidential excellence award” in her doctoral degree.

Previously, Hina worked at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) Pakistan as a Research Fellow -leading Energy transition programs and climate change policy and governance. Prior to that, she worked for the World Bank Group as a Consultant to provide analytical and policy advisory services for China’s environment and climate change team. She also worked as a researcher at the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP’s) centre on ecosystem management to deliver projects on dryland ecosystem restoration projects in West Asia and China, as well as facilitating workshops, trainings and provide support in the implementation of programs.

Daoping joined us in October 2022 as our new Hoffmann Fellow on Global Climate Governance with the University of Cambridge.

During his Fellowship, he will focus on the ‘Business Risk from Climate Change’ project. He is expected to develop new approaches to produce relevant data products, including through use of AI tools to identify new datasets, trace data provenance, and integrate different datasets, and provide recommendations for improving the quality and consistency of data used for reporting and disclosure.

Before joining the Forum, Daoping received his PhD in Economics from the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. His main fields of scientific interest include the economics of disasters and risk management; the complex interactions of climate change, global economic networks, and sustainable development; climate change and human behavior.

Josheena joined us in August 2022 as the new Hoffmann Fellow on Ocean Innovations with the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions.

During her Fellowship, Josheena is working on understanding challenges, opportunities, and pathways to eliminating barriers linked to scaling up ocean innovations for small-scale fisheries. Through the Blue Food Assessment with the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions, she will also be investigating equity considerations related to blue carbon and seaweed farming for small island developing states.

Prior to joining the Forum, Josheena completed her Ph.D. in Environment and Resources from Stanford University. Her doctoral work aimed to support ocean governance in the Western Indian Ocean, including the Republic of Mauritius, her home country. Her community-engaged research focused on small-scale fisheries, disaster impacts and recovery, marine protected area management, and the valorization of natural and cultural heritage. She has a keen interest in understanding people-ocean connections and how that influences pro-ecological behavior, local environmental stewardship, and food security.

Mel joined us in October 2021 together with Felipe as our new Hoffmann Fellow on Circular Economy & 4IR with the INSEAD Business School.

As part of her Fellowship, Mel’s research identified radical collaboration as a key lever in the circular economic transition. In collaboration with the Platform of Advanced Manufacturing as well as Bain & Company, she creates in-depth case studies of partnerships to uncover both the gaps and opportunities in accelerating the circular transformation.

Before joining the Forum, Mel was a doctoral candidate at University College London where her focus was creativity and innovation. She uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to study how individuals and teams select, develop, and execute their ideas. Mel received a B.Sc. in Psychology from the National University of Singapore and a Ph.D. in Organizations and Innovation from University College London. She also spent part of her studies at Stanford University and Sciences Po Paris. Prior to pursuing a research career, she worked as a journalist and marketer in various start-ups.

Felipe joined us in October 2021 as our new Hoffmann Fellow on Food Systems and Data with the INSEAD Business School.

Using sophisticated algorithms and data parsing techniques, Felipe is developing a food choice model that will serve as policy simulator. The end goal is to evaluate how different policies (e.g., carbon tax on beef, subsidies on alternative proteins, etc.) will affect the nutritional quality and environmental footprint of the Brazilian population's diet. The model is potentially replicable to more than 190 countries.

Before joining the Forum, Felipe was a Sustainability Management PhD candidate at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Italy). During his scientific training, Felipe used mainly quantitative methods and experiments to address two main issues: (1) help food service companies to reduce the amount of food waste they generate in their operations; and (2) help food manufacturing companies to communicate the environmental footprint of their products in an effective and accurate way.

Meet our fellow Kate Crosman - she is a social scientist from the U.S, with expertise in the complex governance of oceans and coasts. For the next three years, she will be living in Norway, working on the overall theme of “trustworthiness and trust in big data for oceans”. She recently moved to the city Trondheim.

Kate’s Fellowship focuses on identifying and addressing barriers to trustworthiness and trust in big data for ocean decision-making. She begins her work with two lower-trophic level fisheries case studies, examining the predicates and transformations of big data on its path to influencing operational and management decision-making and how those interact with data trustworthiness and stakeholder trust.

Before joining the Forum, Kate was Principal Research Scientist with the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center, a research initiative housed at University of Washington Earth Lab. At Nexus she led development of an integrative framework for social equity for ocean governance and provided expertise in governance and management to interdisciplinary research projects and Nexus Fellows.

Kate received a B.A. in political science from Davidson College, an M.Sc. in natural resources and environment from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in public policy and management from the University of Washington.

Dr. Kevin Doxzen was a Hoffmann Fellow with the Forum's Health and Healthcare platform and joint with Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Kevin’s portfolio of work spanned multiple health-related research areas. His primary research focused on gaps and barriers inhibiting equitable access to gene therapies. In collaboration with clinical researchers across South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, India, and Thailand, Kevin published a Forum white paper entitled “Accelerating Global Access to Gene Therapies: Case Studies from Low- and Middle-Income Countries,” a publication that aims to motivate and guide gene therapy capacity building by policy-makers, health-systems leaders, pharmaceutical companies, funders and other stakeholders.

He also co-led the Forum Pathogen Genomics Surveillance Initiative, which sought to building public-private partnerships between the Africa CDC’s Pathogen Genomics Initiative and industry stakeholders. Kevin facilitated a workshop at the African Union and mediated conversations around data and bioinformatics, supply chains, and genomics.

Kevin’s other research areas included agile governance and precision medicine, advanced reproductive technologies, and Indigenous genomics data sovereignty. Following his fellowship, Kevin aims to continue improving access to advanced healthcare technologies.

Alfredo led a project to develop a tool that enables seafood companies and retailers to identify risks of illegal operations in global supply chains. He coordinated a partnership between the Friends of Ocean Action at the World Economic Forum, the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions, Global Fishing Watch, and FishWise. The summary report for Phase 1 can be accessed here.

He also designed and led the work to inform the strategy of Stanford's new School for Sustainability to use tech and data for ocean solutions. Stanford University is currently working on fundraising and building partnerships to create a new Initiative based on Alfredo’s input.

Finally, Alfredo led the scoping and fundraising of Blue Carbon Action Partnership at the World Economic Forum, a public-private global partnership to foster national environments that enable blue carbon markets.

Alfredo joined the Forum as the Programme Lead for the Ocean Action Agenda in September 2022 and continues to drive strategic partnerships to address ocean sustainability challenges.

Dr. Emily Kelly was a Hoffmann Fellow on Ocean Data & 4IR with Stanford’s Center for Ocean Solutions.

She played a leading role in a multi-institution advisory group that delivered a major report to the President of Palau. Emily’s work on the core team advising the President on how to implement the Palau National Marine Sanctuary (PNMS) drove notable international collaboration, bridging cultures and scientific disciplines. The report, entitled “Palau’s National Marine Sanctuary: Managing Ocean Change and Supporting Food Security,” was officially presented to the President in December 2019.

Emily is also lead novel work on technology solutions for ending slavery in the tuna supply chain, with a focus on digital contracts and payments. This is follow-on activity to the Tuna Traceability Declaration launched by the Forum at the 2017 UN Oceans Conference. Emily is drawing in concepts and stakeholders from the fintech sector to intersect with diverse actors in fishing, human rights, and supply chains. She delivered a series of stakeholder engagement activities, including the design and facilitation of in-person and virtual workshops in February and July 2020, as well as related research.

Emily joined the Forum and its UpLink team at the beginning of 2021 as a full-time employee and continues to create impact in the field of the oceans.

Dr. Annie Brett was our first Hoffmann Fellow! In partnership with Stanford's Center for Ocean Solutions, she successfully completed the two-year programme in summer 2019.

She joined to drive work that supports a major pillar of the Forum’s high-level Friends of Ocean Action (FOA) initiative focused on illegal fishing. She also focused her work on new ocean data initiatives linked to the FOA, including opportunities to drive work on public-private data sharing, as well as large-scale data implementations.

She was the lead author on the Forum white paper ”Ending Illegal Fishing: Data Policy and the Port State Measures Agreement” released in May 2019.

Dr. Annie Brett served as a co-author of a blue paper commissioned by the high-level panel on the Sustainable Ocean Economy entitled “Technology, Data and New Models for Sustainably Managing Ocean Resources” and contributor to the blue paper “Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and Associated Drivers”.

She is now working as an Assistant Professor at University of Florida - Fredric G. Levin College of Law.