Sandy is an active researcher and teacher at Te Pua Wānangaki te Ao, Faculty of Maori and Indigenous Studies. She describes herself as tribally grounded, globally informed, and whanau tested against the everyday realities in which whanau exist.

Rajesh is Founder-President of PRIA which has trained thousands of practitioners and students internationally in values. He is also Co-Chair of UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education, with Prof. Budd Hall (University of Victoria) since 2012, and is currently co-leading DECODE project.

Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR2), Systemic Transdisciplinary Research Nucleus (NEST-R3) and Universidad de Chile, Chile. Marco is a transdisciplinary researcher dedicated to qualitative and quantitative studies of climate risk, resilience, governance and science-policy interface. He is Professor at Universidad de Chile, Researcher at the Center for Climate and Resilience Research, Technical Lead at the Race to Resilience Campaign and cofounder of the Systemic Transdisciplinary Research Nucleus (NEST-R3).

Alain is the Executive Director of Ouranos – Consortium on Regional Climatology and Adaptation to Climate Change. An expert on climate change and adaptation, he is regularly called upon by media and decisionmakers. He sits on various expert committees including the Québec Government’s Advisory Committee on Climate Change and the Canadian government’s National Adaptation Platform.

Aminata is Project Technical Assistant at CSE. With 10 years' experience as an environmental geographer, she works at the crossroads of several areas of environmental policy design linked to climate change, the environment, demographics, sustainable coastal management, project management and monitoring and evaluation. She supports public decisionmakers and initiatives that contribute fully to the sustainable development of territories and the continuity of economic activities from a resilience perspective.

As Executive Director, she supports the team practically and strategically, at the regional and national scale, and encourages new approaches towards achieving climate resiliency in Atlantic Canada. Her work on traditional approaches to climate change adaptation spans over 15 years, and she has worked with provincial and federal governments, environmental non-profits, and municipalities around this topic.

As Climate Innovation Lead & Business Developer, Quiven focuses on issues related to climate change adaptation, mitigation, resilience & good management of natural resources.

Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Sweden. Åsa is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of Knowledge Management at SEI. She specializes in qualitative social science research, with a focus on sustainability governance, climate adaptation, co-design of climate services. As Head of Knowledge Management, she is responsible for SEI’s organizational learning and manages knowledge platform development.

Cynthia is a Senior Research Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), Adjunct Senior Research Scientist at the Columbia University Climate School, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Environmental Science at Barnard College. At NASA GISS, she heads the Climate Impacts Group, whose mission is to investigate the interactions of climate on systems and sectors important to human well-being. Dr. Rosenzweig is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN).

Mr. Street has over 30 years’ experience researching and supporting adaptation in Canada and internationally, through work at Environment Canada, as lead of the UK Climate Impacts Programme, as contributor to the IPCC, through involvement in national assessments in Canada, the UK and USA and supporting knowledge development and exchanges to inform adaptation policy and practices.

An Indigenous scholar from the tribal confederations of Te Arawa and Tainui. Professor in Māori and Indigenous Studies; Vision Mātauranga lead for the Deep South National Science Challenge Changing with our climate; Vision Mātauranga lead for the Antarctic Science Platform; Member of Science Committee, World Adaptation Science programme

M. Bourque is the Executive Director of Ouranos – Consortium on Regional Climatology and Adaptation to Climate Change. An expert on climate change and adaptation, he is regularly called upon by media and decision-makers. He sits on various expert committees including the Québec Government’s Advisory Committee on Climate Change and the Canadian government’s National Adaptation Platform.