Estefania Arteaga is a climate resilience specialist with expertise in climate risk management and adaptation. She has worked across Latin America and Australia, bridging research and practice to develop effective adaptation strategies. Her experience spans local governments, global policy, vulnerability assessments, and risk management to enhance resilience at multiple scales.

Donovan is a highly experienced climate change practitioner, with a diverse portfolio of experience. Donovan specialises in integrating climate change needs into strategic planning and policy advice. Over the past 20 years he has worked on hundreds of climate change projects.

Dr Nalau is an adaptation scientist who is profoundly curious about the human nature and its ability to adapt as we navigate often through challenging decisions. Her research focuses on adaptation heuristics that are rules of thumb on how we can, could or should adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Roger Cremades is Associate Professor of Urban Environmental Change at the Sustainability Research Institute (University of Leeds, UK). He has been working over a decade with complex systems science on the (co-)development of simulation models to explore local sustainable futures and interactions with environmental change across scales.

Vanessa Völz has been a PhD student at the Global Climate Forum since 2021, specializing in coastal adaptation decision-making with a focus on economic optimization and sea level rise.

Dr. Despina Linaraki is a Greek/Australian Architect Engineer. She is a registered Architect in Greece, a researcher, and a Lecturer in Architecture, Design, and Technology at Griffith University. Her research interests lie in the symbiosis between Architecture and Ecology, focusing on Climate Change adaptation and nature-based solutions. Despina's PhD research involves enhancing the growth of corals and other living organisms to grow living islands in the tropics. She is also a researcher at the SeaCities lab at Griffith University, where they explore urban design solutions for adapting coastal cities to sea-level rise and floods. Despina completed a PhD from Griffith University in 2024, a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in New York in 2015 and a Master of Architectural Engineering from the Technical University of Crete in Greece in 2013. Research gate: www.researchgate.net/profile/Despina-Linaraki This is a short description of her current research project that explores architectural design concepts for the growth of living islands in the tropics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyL3exFvhHU

Estefania Arteaga is a climate resilience specialist with expertise in climate risk management and adaptation. She has worked across Latin America and Australia, bridging research and practice to develop effective adaptation strategies. Her experience spans local governments, global policy, vulnerability assessments, and risk management to enhance resilience at multiple scales. Donovan is a highly experienced climate change practitioner, with a diverse portfolio of experience. Donovan specialises in integrating climate change needs into strategic planning and policy advice. Over the past 20 years he has worked on hundreds of climate change projects.   Dr Nalau is an adaptation scientist who is profoundly curious about the human nature and its ability to adapt as we navigate often through challenging decisions. Her research focuses on adaptation heuristics that are rules of thumb on how we can, could or should adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Dr Seona Meharg is an interdisciplinary social scientist researching how individuals and organisations learn and change, specifically asking what enables individuals and groups to take up ownership of knowledge, tools, and processes for more informed decision-making in complex domains.