Jenny Andersson
Jenny Andersson is a Research Professor at SciencesPo, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CNRS) in Paris.
Keynote speakers
We are proud to present six inspiring keynote speakers for NEEDS 2021. The keynote speakers are paired to create interesting and dynamic discussions.
Each pair address one of the three conference themes: Drawing from experience, Playing with Realities and Imagining Futures.
Drawing from Experience
Margareta Wahlström
Margareta Wahlström is the President of the Swedish Red Cross and former head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).
Playing with Realities
Ben Anderson
Professor Ben Anderson is a cultural-political geographer at Durham University, UK. Throughout his empirical work, he is concerned with how futures are encountered, related to, and made present...
Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt
Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt is an associate professor of Japanese modern literature at Nagoya University, Japan, whose work has focused on geographies of marginality and marginalization in...
Imagining Futures
Rebecca Bryant
Rebecca Bryant is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University. She is an anthropologist of politics and law whose work has focused on ethnic conflict and displacement, border practices...
Nick Wiltsher
Nick Wiltsher is a philosopher, working as an associate senior lecturer at Uppsala University in Sweden.