Filomena Nelson is the Climate Change Adaptation Advisor at the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme. Bringing decades of experience working across national and regional roles, Ms Nelson has a background in Disaster Risk Management, which complements her current work on loss and damage and international climate diplomacy.

Patrick is the Regional Climate Scientist at Climate Analytics, and brings nearly a decade of experience working on climate change adaptation in the Pacific. He has worked globally in adaptation, including as Director of UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) at the University of Oxford. His expertise spans adaptation policy, monitoring and evaluation, and loss and damage, supporting governments and organizations in building climate resilience and thinking ambitiously about responding to climate challenges.

Filomena Nelson is the Climate Change Adaptation Advisor at the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme. Bringing decades of experience working across national and regional roles, Ms Nelson has a background in Disaster Risk. Management, which complements her current work on loss and damage in the Pacific and international climate diplomacy.

Dr. Christopher Bartlett is a senior technical adviser and climate negotiator for the Republic of Vanuatu. He holds a PhD from James Cook University, and a post-doc with Nobel Prize Laureate Elinor Ostrom.

Dr. Rebecca Bogiri is an experienced international development expert, who works on delivering locally led solutions across the Pacific. She is currently the Climate Finance Access and Absorption Officer with the Global Green Growth Institute, working with the Government of Vanuatu.

Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner is a Marshallese poet, educator, and climate activist specializing in non-economic loss and damage, climate justice, and storytelling for advocacy. She serves as the Climate Envoy for the Republic of the Marshall Islands, using her work to amplify Pacific voices and advance global climate action.

Mr Matereti Mateiwai is the Senior Adaptation Officer with Fiji’s Climate Change Division, specialising in adaptation, and supporting national work on loss and damage, as well as international climate negotiations.

Christian-Yves is a current PhD in Climate Change candidate at USP, Fiji. His research focuses on enhancing food security and resilience in taro and dairy farming systems. Christian’s current project investigates strategies to minimize food loss in Samoa, Tonga, Australia, and Fiji, aiming to develop sustainable practices that can be implemented across these regions.

Moleen graduated with her PhD from the University of Adelaide in 2023. Her research examined social-ecological systems’ vulnerability, current adaptation strategies, and lived experiences of loss and damage (L&D) due to cyclones and droughts in Fiji’s sugar industry. Her research also investigated L&D governance and policy gaps in addressing L&D..

Ariadna Anisimov is a Research Fellow on Climate Change Adaptation at the Institute for Development Policy of the University of Antwerp. Her research critially analyses the politial economy of multi-scale climate governance, structural vulnerability, habitability changes, climate justice and Loss and Damage, especially in the context of small islands.

Pedersen Zari, based at AUT’s School of Future Environments, researches nature-based solutions, regenerative climate adaptation, and design for biodiversity in Aotearoa and Oceania. She leads NUWAO (Nature-based Urban Design for Wellbeing and Adaptation in Oceania), founded the Regenerative Ecologies Design Lab (REDLab), and represents Aotearoa in the UCCRN Austrasia-Oceania Hub.