Financial Crises, Poverty and Environmental Sustainability: Challenges in the Context of the SDGs and Covid-19 Recovery

Dr. Andreas Antoniades is a Senior Lecturer in Global Political Economy, University of Sussex, Principal Investigator of the FCES unit of the ‘Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP)’, and Convenor of the Global Debt Dynamics Initiative. He was previously Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy at Sussex, and the Athens Centre for International Political Economy at Panteion University in Greece.

Dr. Alexander Antonarakis is a Senior Lecturer in Global Change Ecology, University of Sussex, and co-Principal Investigator of the FCES unit of the ‘Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP)’. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, USA. 

Dr. Isabell Kempf is Head of Bonn Office & Senior Research Coordinator, UNRISD. She leads the UNRISD Bonn Programme on Integrating Knowledge and Capacity Development for the SDGs. Previously, she was co-Director of the UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Action based at UNEP in Nairobi. She has 26 years of experience working with the UN, including UNESCO, the Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean, and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.