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The Community Board | A recap and a look ahead
Discussion w/ Outgoing Community Board (CRC)
Start time:
March 27, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
EDT
Location:
Online
Type:
Other
YSI Presenters
Description
The outgoing YSI Community Board (formerly Community Report Committee) and the YSI Management team present the State of the Community Report, review responsibilities of the Board, and discuss possible future areas of focus for community development
From 2016-2020, Asgeir B. Torfason, Maria C. Schweinberger, Melissa Vergarez Fernandez, Marcos Reis and Danilo Spinola served on the YSI Community Board, then known as the CRC. In this capacity they guided many important developments of our community structures and governance processes. Together with the YSI Management team, this work is outlined in the State of the Community Report, which was prepared for the YSI Plenary.
Asgeir Torfason
Asgeir served as the chairman of the YSI Community Board (CRC) from 2016 until the YSI Plenary in 2020. Asgeir is a member of the Icelandic Fiscal Council, Fellow at Gothenburg Research Institute.
Danilo Spinola
Danilo was member of the YSI Community Board (CRC) between 2016-2020 and has now been chosen to stay on as chairman to the new board, which the community will elect in the spring of 2021. Danilo is a senior Lecturer at Birmingham City Business School as well as the former coordinator of the YSI’s Complexity Economics Working Group.
We will discuss
- The State of the Community Report (view here) and body of work of the outgoing Community Board
- The responsibilities of the Community Board
- Possible areas for community development
- Details about the election process
- Questions and answers
Hosted by Working Group(s):
Organizers
Attendees
Dario Vazquez
Rok Piletic
Alejandra Santiago
Kosal Nith
Étienne Desfossés
Kambo Martial Dr ATSE
Celso Gonzalez
Jheelum Sarkar
Paulina Segovia
Timothy Bisakaya
terence muzorewa
Eleonora Gentilucci
Christopher Pomwene Shafuda
Nikolai Yakushev
chemseddine TIDJANI
Chris Kang
Ramona-Denisa Steiper
Geraldine Sibanda
Geraldine Sibanda
Jay Pocklington
Srinivas Yanamandra
Nicolás Aguila
Ramon Gimenez
Christina Mosalagae
Thomas Vass
Heske van Doornen
Ádám Kerényi
Ajibola Akanji
Barbara França
Daniel Yang
Thereza Balliester Reis
Cicero Braga
Jana Rué Glutting
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