Giriraj Amarnath, Principal Researcher at IWMI, specializes in climate resilience and disaster risk management. With 20+ years’ experience across 25+ countries, promotes innovative climate risk management solutions aided with digital tools for climate adaptation, including drought and flood monitoring and management, anticipatory action programs, advancing climate-smart governance and finance.

Pablo Aranda Valenzuela, lawyer and IWM master's graduate, lectures on Environmental Law at the University of Chile and researches at The University of Queensland's Sustainable Infrastructure Research Hub. He supports Newenko on water governance and is a PhD candidate at UQ, focusing on water governance, justice, and rural community impacts.

Dr. Rana is currently Director of South Asia at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT in India and working on mainstreaming agrobiodiversity and its utilization for climate resilience, food and nutrition security and livelihoods.

Dr. Esther A. Onyango is an Interdisciplinary Scientist focused on policy-driven research and innovation in environmental systems, human health, and sustainability. She employs a Planetary Health approach to identify human health risks in socio-ecological systems impacted by global stressors like climate change to facilitate decision-making for adaptation.

Ms. Abhilasha Singh is a doctoral researcher at the School of Public Policy in the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Her research pertains to food systems transformations, agro-ecology and resilience to climate change. She is also interested in exploring the changing mobility patterns of rural communities in the context of changing climate.

Veronica White is an environmental social scientist within the Geography Department at the University of Exeter. Her PhD research applies creative methods to explore visions for the future of farming and food production in England. Veronica is also an experienced photographer and graphic designer.