Dr. Jessica Thorn, a lecturer at Imperial College London and ARISE Fellow, researches climate adaptation, biodiversity, and land use change. With 17 years across 65+ countries, she’s secured £7 million in funding, influenced global policy, and supervises PhD students, postdocs, and interns in interdisciplinary environmental research.

Pankaj Kumar is currently working as research manager in the field of water resources and climate change adaptation at IGES, Japan. His research work primarily focuses on Socio-hydrology, Hydrological simulation, Scenario analysis, Water-health-food-energy nexus. To address research objectives, he uses integrated approach involving both qualitative and quantitative analysis.

Marco Billi is a transdisciplinary researcher active in developing and applying indicators and qualitative studies of risk, resilience and adaptation to climate change, as well as of water, energy and food security, and in assessing and promoting integrated climate change governance and science-policy interface at different scales. He is Assistant professor at Universidad de Chile, Associate Researcher at the Center for Climate and Resilience Research, and Technical Lead at the Race to Resilience Campaign of the High-Level Climate Champions, on top of being co-founder and active member of the Systemic Transdisciplinary Research Nucleus (NEST-R3) and of several research networks affiliated to it.

Amelia is an urban sustainability scholar who is passionate about healthy cities and good governance. She currently works as a Research Fellow in Urban Climate Leadership at the Melbourne Centre for Cities, where she is co-developing and delivering a regional training programme for city-level climate action in the Asia Pacific.

Dr. Dilys Sefakor MacCarthy is an Associate Professor with the Soil and Irrigation Research Centre, of the University of Ghana. She leads the West African team of scientists working with AgMIP. She teaches and supervises postgraduate students in the School of Agriculture, University of Ghana.

Mr. Erik Mencos is a Senior Research Associate at Columbia University. He supports the AgMIP Coordination Unit by working collaboratively with program managers, researchers, Columbia University finance officers, and sponsor agency officials on the overall research coordination and financial management of the program Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig is Senior Research Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and at the Columbia Climate School. At NASA GISS, she heads the Climate Impacts Group whose mission is to investigate the interactions of climate (both variability and change) on systems and sectors important to human well-being. Dr. Dilys Sefakor MacCarthy is an Associate Professor with the Soil and Irrigation Research Centre, of the University of Ghana. She leads the West African team of scientists working with AgMIP. She teaches and supervises postgraduate students in the School of Agriculture, University of Ghana. Dr. Laure Tall is an agroecologist and the Research Director of IPAR (Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rurale), a West African think tank based in Senegal. Before that, Dr. Tall was a researcher at ISRA, where she held the position of Director of the National Research Laboratory on Plant Production. Dr. Roberto Valdivia is Associate Professor and Senior Researcher at the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University. He is co-leader of the AgMIP regional economics team and co-leader of the Tradeoff Analysis Project. His research is focused on developed and developing countries.

Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig is Senior Research Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and at the Columbia Climate School. At NASA GISS, she heads the Climate Impacts Group whose mission is to investigate the interactions of climate (both variability and change) on systems and sectors important to human well-being.

Dr. Tall led the project activities in Senegal, ensuring alignment between national policies and local adaptation strategies. She will present results from climate and agricultural modeling, integrating gender perspectives, and coordinating stakeholder engagement with government and local actors. Her leadership drove the co-creation of evidence-based policies for climate resilience and food security in Senegal.

Dr. Roberto Valdivia is Associate Professor and Senior Researcher at the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University. He is co-leader of the AgMIP regional economics team and co-leader of the Tradeoff Analysis Project. His research is focused on developed and developing countries.