Matawalu Community Leader, Fiji Bio: Jone Baravilala Rasi is Matawalu village (Ba province, Fiji) community leader and was elected the president of the Ba Youth Council at its annual general meeting (AGM) in 2013. Jone is an advocate for Matawalu community relocation and has been representing the village in various local, national and international arenas.

Timothy is Programme Adviser - Climate Mobility at the Pacific Islands Forum in Suva, Central, Fiji. He holds a PhD in Peace Studies from the University of Sydney and over seven years of experience as a Senior Policy Advisor at the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS).

Dr. Dalila Gharbaoui holds a PHD in Political and Social Sciences from University of Liege and in Pacific studies from University of Canterbury. She is Adjunct Research fellow and undertook a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at UC under the NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs funded Pacific Ocean and Climate Crisis Assessment

Lopeti Senituli is a Law Practitioner in Tonga and a former Political Advisor to two Tongan Prime Ministers. He was Director of the Pacific Concerns Resource Centre Inc, the secretariat of the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (NFIP) from 1987 to 2000, which led the Pacific campaign to have the UN address Climate Change.

Mere is an indigenous Fijian researcher and climate advocate specialized in climate (im) mobility in the Pacific. Mere advocates for the use of indigenous methodologies and approaches tailored to the cultural context of the PICs in addressing the complex challenges of climate change and disaster related impacts.

Roi is a researcher at the University of Auckland. She holds a Master’s degree in Pacific studies with a research interest in gender, labour and climate mobility. Roi was the research programme coordinator and graduate researcher specific to Kiribati and Tuvalu.

Derek Futaiasi holds a PhD from the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University. He was a former Deputy Secretary to the Prime Minister (Solomon Islands). Currently, he is the Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Provincial Government and Institutional Strengthening, Solomon Islands.

Kerryn Sogha Galokale attained her PhD in Pacific Studies from the University of Auckland. As a trained secondary teacher in Solomon Islands, she was also a research fellow in the Climate Mobility Research project. Currently, she is the Te Tomokanga Research Fellow in Pacific Studies, at The University of Auckland.

Robert is a researcher for Kiribati Environmental Mobility Research Unit (KEMRU) and has worked with Office of the President as a Kiribati Integrated Vulnerability Assessment (KIVA) Analyst (2018-2020). Currently, he is the Country Coordinator for Kiribati Climate Action Network

Jennifer Litau has a PhD in Geography from Australia National University focussing on development aspects of migration to rural and peri-urban areas in PNG. She is currently Principal of Sonoma Adventist College in East New Britain, PNG.

Tekateteke Metai works as a safeguard and communication specialist for the Pacific Regional Oceanscape Program under the Ministry of Fisheries, Kiribati. Passionate about ocean conservation and climate justice, she holds a master’s in marine biodiversity and co-founded Kiribati’s first young mothers’ NGO while balancing her roles as a wife and mother of two.

Yvonne Underhill-Sem has a PhD in Development Geography from the University of Waikato focussing on women’s reproduction in PNG. She is a Cook Island New Zealander with close family ties to Papua New Guinea. She taught at UPNG and ANU before moving to University of Auckland.

Professor Yvonne Underhill-Sem MNZM has a PhD in Development Geography from the University of Waikato. She has expertise in mobilities in the Pacific (labour and climate). She is of Cook Island heritage and was one of the three co-leads in the wider research project.

Suli’s research interests broadly lie in the interdisciplinary areas of development studies, human geography, ethnography, ethno-ecology, climate crisis, and community production. The core of some of his research is around indigenous knowledge systems, community Indigenous innovation, nexus of science and TEK, alternative and pluriverse development, community-driven development, and social transformation in the Pacific.

Dr. Dalila Gharbaoui is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Canterbury under the NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs funded Pacific Ocean and Climate Crisis Assessment. She holds a PHD in Political and Social Sciences from University of Liege and a PHD in Pacific studies from University of Canterbury

Yvonne Underhill-Sem MNZM (Phd, Development Geography) from Cook Islsnds was one of co-leads in the research project. Kerryn Galokale (PhD, Pacific Studies) is Te Tomokanga Research Fellow at University of Auckland and from Solomon Islands. Roi (MA, Pacific Studies) was the research programme coordinator and graduate researcher and from Kiribati.