Vivienne is a Technical Principal, Social Science, Resilience and Public Health at WSP’s Research & Innovation Centre. Her research starts from the question – ‘if I reside here, how do I live well? She is a leading researcher in public-funded research addressing the determinants of health and wellbeing, including floods.

Michael Rendall is Director of the Maryland Population Research Center and Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He researches human impacts of climate disasters, including extreme flooding events in coastal India working with Drs. Sonalde Desai and Sharan Sharma, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

Sara Hughes is a senior policy researcher at RAND and adjunct professor at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on designing and evaluating effective and equitable solutions to water, climate change, and environmental policy problems from the local to the global.

Melissa Tier is a PhD candidate at the Princeton School of Public & International Affairs. She researches climate adaptation and environmental justice policy – interweaving topics in multi-level governance, urban planning, and decision sciences. She also holds an MSc in Sustainable Urban Development from the University of Oxford.

Cara has expertise in communications, community development, decision-making, and risk and resilience. She holds a Master's degree in Disaster Risk and Resilience, with additional qualifications in Media and Communications. Cara is passionate about how we communicate hazards, particularly the ethical implications of disaster messaging, and improving access to scientific knowledge.

Climate Change Advisory Engineer at the United Nations Development Programme with a wide experience in major constructions works to alluvial controls and other mitigation constructions works.