Alchemy World's Advisory Board Consists of Humanitarian and CSR specilialists from around the world, who share a passion for the common goal of poverty alleviation and see entrepreneurship as pivotal in achieveing this objective.
Professor Eva Thorne.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Cambridge, MA. PhD in political science, June 1998. Field specializations in Latin American politics, international political economy, and comparative politics.
Harvard University: Cambridge, MA. BA, in history, June 1989. Concentration in history with an emphasis on the United States. Also coursework in sociology, anthropology, Spanish language and literature, and government.
Meyer and Walter Jaffe Assistant Professor of Politics; Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts and other Assistant Professor positions; 1999–present.
Bernstein Award, Brandeis University, Spring 2005.
Lead Principal Investigator, Ford Foundation Program on Global Civil Society Grant: “Afro-descendant Land Rights Reach the Agenda: Comparative Lessons for Action—Research and Policy Advocacy,” December 2002.
Summer Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation, 2002.
Fellow, WEB DuBois Institute, Harvard University, 2001–2002.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for African and African-American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2001–2002. (Declined)
Research Associate, Institute on Race and Social Division, Boston University, 1999–2000.
International Environmental and Energy Policy Research Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Center for International Studies, MIT, 1998–1999.
Institute for the Study of World Politics— Dissertation Fellowship, 1997–1998.
Institute for the Study of World Politics—Dorothy Compton Dissertation Fellowship, 1995–1996.
International Environmental and Energy Policy Research Fellowship, Center for International Studies, MIT, 1994–1995.
Social Science Research Council—International Predissertation Fellowship Program, 1993–1994.
Inter-American Foundation—Predissertation Fellowship, 1993–1994.
US Department of Education Foreign Languages and Area Studies Fellowship, 1992–1993.
MIT Graduate Fellowship, 1991–1992.
Dr Alessandro Conticini
Dr. Alessandro Conticini is currently the Head of Child Protection at the United Nations Children’s Fund based in Ethiopia. His current work includes directing research, programmes formulation and policy development for vulnerable children in developing countries. Dr. Conticini holds a Post-doctoral and a Doctoral degree from the Institute for Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester, and he has an Honour Degree in International Political Economics from the University of Bologna. Dr. Conticini is an affiliated researcher with the Chronic Poverty Research Centre at the University of Manchester and has been collaborating with the Global Poverty Research Group at Oxford University. Dr. Conticini’s main field of academic and professional interest is the reduction of child poverty with a particular focus on child protection issues such as street living and working children, commercial sexual exploitation of, violence against, and trafficking in women and children. His working experiences with United Nations and Non-Governmental Organizations include project management and analytical research with children in armed conflicts, refugees, orphans and vulnerable children in a number of developing countries such as Sierra Leone, Zambia, Malawi, Congo, Ethiopia and Bangladesh. This interest specifically draws on a number of years spent in Italy as a social worker on a voluntary basis. He has published a number of articles on child poverty in the main journals of development studies, always trying to translate his research findings into practical policy implications for decision makers and practitioners. Dr. Conticini has been recipient of the UK Economic and Social Research Council Doctoral-Fellowship, as well as the Economic and Social Research Council Post-Doctoral-Fellowship. He was awarded a Research Fellowship from the Swiss Confederation at the University of Fribourg, the Rotary Prize of Ambassador of Peace and Goodwill, and the Award for Best Research from ENASARCO.