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Dr Katy Hayward is one of the leading political sociologists on the island of Ireland, and is a Reader in Sociology, and Senior Research Fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen鈥檚 University Belfast. Dr Hayward鈥檚 research focuses on conflict/post-conflict transitions and is actively interdisciplinary, traversing fields of border studies, conflict studies, European studies, and Irish studies. This means that she is particularly well-placed to speak about the implications of Brexit for the island of Ireland, and Northern Ireland in particular, European integration, political violence, and the application of discourse analysis.

William C. Harris, Ph.D., served as Science Foundation Ireland’s founding director general and was responsible for leading it in its early years and for developing the eventual legislation to formally establish an independent SFI. He subsequently was founding president and CEO of Science Foundation Arizona.
Prior to his work at SFI, Bill served as vice president of Research for the University of South Carolina. He served in significant leadership roles at the US National Science Foundation, including developing NSF’s 25 initial Science and Technology centers and leading the Mathematical and Physical Sciences directorate. He served as deputy director of Columbia University’s Earth Institute and led development of Biosphere 2 as a western campus of Columbia.
Bill is the co-author, with Stephen Beschloss, of Adrift: Charting Our Course Back to a Great Nation (Prometheus, 2011). A former chemistry professor at Furman University, he earned his BS degree from William and Mary and his PhD from USC. Bill holds honorary doctorates from the University of Ireland and Northern Arizona University. He is co-founder and director of Innovation Advisory Partners.