Dore, Giovanna Maria Dora

Giovanna Maria Dora Dore is a political economist with nearly 20 years of experience in international development and comparative politics, with a focus on public policy and institutions in East Asian emerging markets. She is Senior Lecturer and Associate Director of the East Asian Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University (US). Between 1998 and 2008, Dr. Dore worked at the World Bank in various capacities, including Special Assistant to the President. Her work focused on the East Asia and Pacific Region and a broad range of topics related to growth and sustainable development, public expenditure and revenue management, and decentralization. Dr. Dore received her PhD from the Johns Hopkins University - SAIS, her MA in in International Relations and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins University – SAIS, and her BA-MSc in Contemporary Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (double first-class honors) from the Catholic University of Milan (Italy).

Arya D. McCarthy is a Ph.D. student in computer science, in the Center for Language and Speech Processing of the Johns Hopkins University, where he has been awarded the Amazon Fellowship as well as the Jelinek Fellowship. He has published over 30 papers at venues such as ACL, EMNLP, ICASSP, and ICLR, and worked at Google, Duolingo and Facebook. He has received his M.S. in computer science (joint with dual B.S. degrees in computer science and mathematics) at Southern Methodist University. 

James A. Scharf is an AI researcher focusing on Human Language and Technology at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. He received his MSE in Engineering (computer science) from the Whiting School of Engineering of the Johns Hopkins University and his BA in political science and computer science from the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences of the Johns Hopkins University.