Mfundo Mandla Masuku is Associate Professor in Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has published a number of scholarly articles and book chapters and edited books in the following research areas: gender and development, food security, inclusive education, local economic development, governance, and scholarship of teaching and learning. He has presented papers at both local and international conferences. He worked with the public and private sectors to apply his research findings to real-world problems and contribute to practical solutions.

Hung-Chih Hung is a Distinguished Professor at National Taipei University, Taiwan, and a former President of the Disaster Management Society of Taiwan.

Claudia Wolff is a postdoctoral researcher at the Coastal Risks and Sea-Level Rise Research Group in the Geography Department at Kiel University. Her research focuses on coastal flood risk assessment and adaptation, including urban exposure to SLR and landuse planning (e.g. setback zones/retreat). She is especially interested in transformative adaptation.

Aysin is an urban and environmental planner with thirty years of international teaching and research experience. She has expertise in natural resource management, governance and collaborative planning. Her research focuses on climate change adaptation and urban/disaster resilience, water resource management, sustainability and urbanisation in subtropical areas and coastal cities.

Amy Allen is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Canterbury exploring managed retreat in coastal communities in Te Waipounamu, the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. Professor Bronwyn Hayward is her primary supervisor, along with Dr Shinya Uekusa and Dr Lindsey Te Ata o Tū MacDonald.