Hallie Eakin, Professor, researches the roles, responsibilities and relationships among actors in rural and urban adaptation governance. She collaborates extensively with colleagues in Mexico, Central America, South Africa, and Canada in her exploration of the political economy of adaptation and the determinants of more transformative adaptive capacity.

Julie Ulrich serves as a founding Director of Urban Conservation at The Nature Conservancy. She created one of the first urban conservation programs in the U.S. and helped develop TNC’s North America Cities Network. Julie’s extensive experience in climate adaptation sits at the intersection of urbanism, ecology, and the public.

Dr. Yvonne Su is the Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies. Her research is on forced migration, climate change-induced displacement and queer migration. She has worked extensively with vulnerable communities in Southeast Asia and Latin America and the Caribbeans including refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, indigenous peoples and LGBTQ+ communities. Dr Brooke Wilmsen is a Human Geographer in the Department of Social Inquiry. She is currently the Director of the Master of International Development and Convenor of the Major in Sustainability and Development that is offered in the Bachelor of Arts. Her research interests include resettlement, climate adaptation, social protection and agrarian change. Dr. Justin See is a lecturer in Development Studies at the School of Social and Political Sciences (The University of Melbourne). His research investigates the intersecting dimensions of power, injustice, and inequality reflected in the planning and implementation of climate change adaptation and mitigation projects implemented in the Global South. Ginbert Permejo Cuaton is a research assistant professor at Lingnan University. He researches social policy issues in the nexus of disasters, displacements, and climate action in Southeast Asia, and his works have been cited in globally important reports and policy instruments by the IPCC, the ADB, UN-Water, and UNFAO.

Alivony Ravelomanantsoa is a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Natural Resources Manangment and Development, Univeristy of Antananarivo. Her research focuses on the role of green infrastructure in increasing the resilience of urban informal settlement residents in Antananarivo, Madagascar. She has interests in climate green solutions and community well-being.

Ali is currently the Sustainability Coordinator at ARC Projects; an Aus/NZ insurance builder. She historically worked as an adaptation consultant with Loop and Co and Net Balance and was a Research Assistant at RMIT with ACCARNSI. Her PhD focusses on adaptation in the built environment.

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.