Certifications & Training
Public Policy Analysis, London School of Economics, UK (2025 – in progress)
Learning to Teach Online, The University of New South Wales, Australia (2025)
Sustainability for Business: ESG Fundamentals, IMD - International Institute for Management Development, Lausanne, Switzerland (2025)
Generative AI for Educators Specialization Certificate (comprised of the following Generative AI courses: Introduction and Applications, Prompt Engineering Basics and Empowering Modern Education), IBM Skills Network, USA (2025)
Excellence in Online Teaching, Johns Hopkins University, USA (2025)
Generative AI for Educators & Teachers Specialization Certificate (comprised of the following four courses: Generative AI Primer, Innovative Teaching with ChatGPT, GPT Vision: Seeing the World through Generative AI, and Trustworthy Generative AI), Vanderbilt University, USA (2025)
Generative AI and ESG, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey. USA (2025)
AI in Education: Leveraging ChatGPT for Teaching, University of Pennsylvania, USA (2025)
Sustainable Development in the 21st Century with Ban Ki-moon, Yonsei University (2025)
"One Million AI Prompters" Initiative, Dubai Future Foundation, UAE (2025)
The Sustainable Development Goals – A global, transdisciplinary vision for the future, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2025)
Research Ethics Certification, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS 2: CORE), Canada (2020)
Education
Ph.D. in Social Work
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada — 2019
Specialization: Citizenship Rights, Comparative Social Policies, Political Economy
Thesis: "The Politics of Austerity and Social Citizenship Rights: A Case Study of the Impact of the 2008 Financial Crisis on the Welfare State in Portugal"
Supervisor: Prof. Allan Moscovitch