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Professor Ted Fuller is the UNESCO Chair holder on Responsible Foresight for Sustainable Development. Dr. Fuller leads the Chair and provides support and guidance for the Chair members’ projects addressing futures and SDGs. He also gives numerous presentations, develops network relationships with UNESCO Chairs and others, assists applicant UNESCO Chairs, and designs and develops the responsible foresight research and capacity building programme.

Connected with the UNESCO Chair Programmes:

• Responsible Futures

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Dr Andrea Caputolargely focusses on understanding the nature of complexity in the decision making process, the global and local impact on macro-trends, and how to increase and facilitate communication with and for entrepreneurs. He has engaged in knowledge sharing across the UNESCO Chair group; organising and delivering activities with UNESCO affiliate the Queen Rania Centre for Entrepreneurship at the Princess Sumaya University for Technology (Amman, Jordan) to develop the capacity to support the education of women entrepreneurs in responsible management. More widely, Dr Caputo has led webinars and shaped a special interest in foresight and sustainability amongst European academic networks, for example, the European Academy of Management (EURAM).

Relationship with partners: Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship (), Amman, Jordan - Princess Sumaya University for Technology (), Amman, Jordan

Specialism link to UNESCO objectives: Objective 1 and 2 - learning and education in management and entrepreneurship

Connected with the UNESCO Chair Programmes:

• Futures of Responsible Entrepreneurship and Management

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Dr Paul Igwe’s focus is on higher education and women entrepreneurship with research and developmental activities to engage policymakers relating to policy reform and sustainability challenges in the education and business sectors.As an active member of the Chair group, Dr Igwe has been building relationships with a network of universities in Nigeria with a focus on entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainability. Dr Igwe's activities have included field research, publications, keynote presentations and webinars.

Connected with the UNESCO Chair Programmes:

• Futures of Responsible Entrepreneurship and Management
• Climate Futures

Dr Lilian Korir has contributed to foresight on food security, with a purpose of affecting policies in Kenya. In collaboration with Dr Eric Ruto, Dr Korir has visited and built relationships with the Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development, KCA University and Kabarak University, Kenya and plans for further research. Dr Korir has also created links with the ÄϹÏÓ°Ôº Institute of Agric-Food Technology to help explore the futures of food.

Connected with the UNESCO Chair Programmes:

• Sustainable Food Futures

Dr Mahfuzur Rahman

Dr Mahfuzur Rahman is an Associate Professor at the ÄϹÏÓ°Ôº, UK. He is also an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Public Sociology and Sociotherapy (IJPSS). His current academic and research interests are in Sustainability and Innovation with a focus on Emerging Markets. Investigating the potential environment friendly manufacturing, such as, adoption of textile enzymes, for a sustainable future motivates his most recent research works. Dr Rahman is an Academic Adviser to the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, UK. As an adviser, Dr Rahman is representing UK Higher Education to Commonwealth countries. He is also playing a critical role in the selection of Commonwealth Scholar and Fellows. His research projects (as Principal Investigator/Co-Investigator) and Scholarships (as Supervisor) are funded by the Commonwealth Commission, Government of Bangladesh, British Council, Government of Ghana and UNIDO.

Relationship with partners:Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED) at BRAC University, Bangladesh. Link:

Connected with the UNESCO Chair Programmes:

• Futures of Responsible Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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Ms Magdalena Read is a Lecturer and doctoral student specializing in Capacity Building. Her PhD research is focus on "Small community groups' decision-making process and their sustainability in rural areas : a case for ÄϹÏÓ°Ôºshire". She is a Provisional Member of the Association of Professional Futurist (global) and has connections with the Philippine Futures Thinking Society. As part of her involvement with the Responsible Futures Programme, she and Prof Dieu Hack-Polay are contributing to a book chapter on "Collective decision-making in community organisations".

Relationship with partners:

Connected with the UNESCO Chair Programmes: 

• Responsible Futures

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Dr Eric Ruto's largely quantitative research focusses on diverse, global food security issues and agricultural practices, such as salinization, with a particular expertise in the Kenyan context. Dr Ruto has contributed to foresight on food security, with a purpose of affecting policies in Kenya. In collaboration with Dr Lilian Korir, he is working with the Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Development, Kenya and the ÄϹÏÓ°Ôº Institute of Agric-Food to help explore the futures of food.

Connected with the UNESCO Chair Programmes:

• Sustainable Food Futures

Professor Shrabani Saha is the Chair of Development Economics at ÄϹÏÓ°Ôº International Business School, and is deeply interested in political economy, terrorism and tourism economics, economic growth, development economics and international trade issues. She is a regular and frequent contributor to the UNESCO Chair group, integrating key ideas of futures and sustainable development into her international research on institutional governance, concerned with (anti) corruption, development economics, and sustainable tourism.

Professor Saha is currently collaborating and working on several research projects with academics and researchers from various universities in Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Mongolia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, United Kingdom, Qatar, Sultanate of Oman and United States of America.

Connected with the UNESCO Chair Programmes:

• Institutions for Future Development
• Futures of Responsible Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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