Thierry Ngosso is a Cameroonian political philosopher. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Louvain (2015). Affiliated with the Catholic University of Central Africa (UCAC), the University of Maroua (UMa) in Cameroon, and the University of St. Gallen (HSG) in Switzerland, his academic work focuses on applied ethics, corporate responsibility, and comparative political theory. He is particularly interested in global justice and, more specifically, in three contemporary and interconnected issues in this field: climate change, human rights, especially the human right to health, and migration. Ngosso manages the HSG Competence Center for African Research and the UCAC Ethics and Public Policy Laboratory he founded in 2019. Former Berggruen Fellow at the Harvard Lilly and Safra Center for Ethics (2018-2019) and former Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione Fellow (2019-2023) researching African perspectives of the Human Right to Health, Ngosso will be Humboldt Fellow (2025-2027) and focus on the corporate political climate responsibility in decarbonization contexts. Jennifer Heaven Mike is currently a Global Studies Scholar and an Assistant Professor of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGGS) at DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, USA. She holds the Hampton and Esther Boswell Distinguished University Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies position at DePauw University. Mike is also an Assistant Professor of Law at the American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola, Adamawa. Mike further serves as the Director of AUN's Centre for Governance, Human Rights and Development (CGDHR) and the Director of the Intersessional (Summer Program) at AUN. She has also worked as the HoD (Chair) of the Department of Public and International Law (PIL). Mike previously worked as a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (PTA) with the University of Exeter. Mike has served as the Gender and Diversity Officer of the Academic and Professional Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA). She obtained her PhD in Law at the University of Exeter, UK and LLM at London Metropolitan University. As a qualified legal practitioner, Mike has worked with law firms in the UK and Nigeria. Mike had an extensive professional background, including serving as the Legal Advisor and Company Secretary of EcoSpectra Ltd. Her role involved providing legal counsel and guidance to the company, as well as overseeing corporate governance and compliance matters. Mike's scholarly engagements draw on the principles, concepts, literature and studies that inform international law, human rights, public health, economics, medicines and gender studies. Her research interest is to further explore the connections between human rights and other disciplines. Mike has written extensively on the right to health, pharmaceutical corporations' obligations to health and other human rights issues. She is also a reviewer for several international journals.
