Oqab M Jabali- Political Sciences- Best Researcher Award

Oqab M Jabali- Political Sciences- Best Researcher Award

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Educations📚📚📚

He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Cultural Studies and Political Sciences from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, in March 2012. Prior to that, he completed a Master of Arts in Translation and Applied Linguistics at An-Najah National University in 2005, achieving a total average of 88.1. He also holds a High Diploma in Methods of English Language Teaching from the same university, completed in 2003 with a total average of 82. In 1997-1998, he undertook a one-year in-service training course at the UNRWA/UNESCO Institute of Education. Additionally, he obtained his Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature from An-Najah National University in 1994, with a total average of 81.9. His academic journey began at Howarah Secondary School, where he completed the Tawjihi Scientific Stream in 1986 with a total average of 79.8.

Experience

He has 18 years of experience as an instructor at the university level and 12 years as a teacher at the school level. He served as the Director of the Language Centre at An-Najah National University from August 2014 to August 2016. Prior to that, he was an instructor in the English Language Department and Language Centre at An-Najah National University from February 2006 to August 2014 on a part-time basis. He also taught culture and Palestinian society at Jagiellonian University in Poland for one semester during the 2009-2010 academic year. Additionally, he was a part-time instructor at the Language Centre of Al-Quds Open University from 2006 to 2008. His teaching career began with the UNRWA, where he taught English to school children from the 4th to the 9th grade from September 1996 to 2008.

 

Li YANG – Inequality and Political Economy -Graph Analytics Research Excellence Award

Li YANG – Inequality and Political Economy -Graph Analytics Research Excellence Award

Dr. Li Yang  distinguished academic and researcher in the field Inequality and Political Economy .His main fields of interest include income and wealth inequality, economic history, and political economy. He has been a researcher at ZEW in Mannheim since 2023 and an affiliated scholar at the Stone Center at the City University of New York since the same year. Since 2017, he has been a research fellow at the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics (PSE). From 2021 to 2023, he was a research associate at DIW Berlin. Additionally, he served as a Stone Research Fellow at INSEAD in Paris from 2020 to 2021 and coordinated for Asia at the World Inequality Lab at PSE from 2018 to 2021. Earlier in his career, he was a researcher with the DEC Research Group at the World Bank in Washington DC from 2013 to 2017.

🌐 Professional Profile

Educations📚📚📚

He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Xiamen University in China in 2019, following a Bachelor of Arts in Finance from the same institution in 2003. Between 2007 and 2009, he participated in a Joint Doctoral Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the USA.

Work Experience

He has received various funding and scholarships throughout his career. In 2023, he was awarded a €25,000 grant from the Mannheim Taxation Project and received funding for an experiment within the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP-IS) from ZEW. DIW Berlin granted him a €12,000 Project Research Program Grant for 2023-2024. He also secured a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship from the European Commission, amounting to €173,000 for 2018-2020. The World Bank provided him with a $89,000 Research Support Budget from 2014-2017. Earlier, he was awarded a $28,500 Joint Doctoral Program Scholarship for studying abroad by the China Scholarship Council from 2007-2009, recognizing him as part of the top 2.5% of Chinese Ph.D. students. His teaching experience includes a short master course on “The Economic History of China through the Lens of Economic Inequality,” which he taught at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, in 2022, and at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia, in 2023.

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