Dr. Preetika Singh is a water, environment and climate resilience planning specialist. Preetika has vast work experience in the academic, consulting and the stormwater industry. She has a keen interest in the environment and sustainability sector, and her research focuses on Climate Change in the Pacific Islands.

Lawyer and social researcher Luisa Bedoya Taborda has worked with rural communities in Colombia, South America, displaced from their land by armed groups. She is now doing a PhD on the impact of climate change in communities affected by violent conflict. Social network and environmental social scientist Michele Barnes combines sociology and complex systems science to explore how social factors and people-nature relationships impact sustainability and resilience, with a focus on climate change.

Bethany Liss is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Geography at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany. Interested in climate policy, planning, and decision-making, her current research focuses on the integration of managed retreat in climate adaptation planning through a climate justice lens.

Dr Philip Cass is currently a senior lecturer at OPAIC in Auckland and a freelance journalist and editor. He has written several articles and conference papers on climate change in the Pacific.

Merewalesi is a postdoctoral research fellow at The University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on climate mobility, climate adaptation, resilient livelihoods, non-economic loss and damage, community-based adaptation, and gender in close partnership with governments and NGOs throughout the Pacific region.