Mr. Bal Krishna Jamarkattel is a passionate climate change professional with more than two decades of experience leading projects in forestry, climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and community resilience. His work includes pioneering adaptation planning in Nepal, engaging private sectors, and advocating for children's involvement in climate policy and action.

1. Michaela is a project manager at African Climate and Development Initiative, where she is currently involved with the HABVIA project, assessing heat adaptation interventions in low-income African communities. Her PhD explores heat impacts on sleep and physiology, focusing on passive cooling benefits for health. 2. Vuyisile is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at ACDI, University of Cape Town, working on the HABVIA project to assess heat adaptation interventions in sub-Saharan Africa. His expertise includes social research, climate resilience, and sustainable development, with experience in projects funded by WHO, USAID, UNDP, UNFPA, and PEPFAR. 3. Hamima Johar is an epidemiologist and postdoctoral researcher at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, where she is currently involved with the Heat Care at SEACO project in Malaysia. Her research interests lie at the intersection of psychosocial health and cardiometabolic diseases, with a growing interest on implementation science. 4. Professor of Physiology at the Center for Space Medicine and Extreme Environments, focusing on human adaptation to extreme environments, e.g., space, cold and extreme heat, with knowledgeable expertise in bio-signals analysis assessing metabolic, thermoregulatory, cardiovascular and behavioral response to environmental stressors, leading several projects in space medicine, climate change, heat stress and their impact on human health and performance. 5. Research Group Leader of Digital Global Health at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health. Her research integrates artificial intelligence, data science, and sensor-based technologies to assess and predict the health impacts of climate change on vulnerable populations. She leads research projects across Africa and Asia, focusing on the application of biosensors for early warning systems in climate-sensitive diseases and the utilization of graph databases for continuous, multi-granular data analysis in climate adaptation research. 6. Tin Tin is a public health physician and professor at Monash University Malaysia. She became a director of the recently established “Regional Hub for Asia Climate Change and Health (REACH)” to advance research that promotes climate literacy, empowers communities, strengthens health systems and supports climate-vulnerable groups in Southeast and South Asia.

Emma Bacon is the founder and executive director of Sweltering Cities. Sweltering Cities works directly with people impacted by extreme heat on advocacy to put community voices at the heart of better policies and infrastructure for climate resilience.

Eugenia Kargbo serves as Freetown’s Chief Heat Officer, the first in Africa, leading innovative urban heat resilience strategies for one of the world’s fastest-growing, climate-vulnerable cities. Eugenia works across government, community, and international partners to implement solutions that centre local needs, improve public health, and build urban climate resilience.

Eilish Maguire leads the Urban Climate Resilience program at Australian Red Cross, focusing on strengthening community preparedness, adaptation, and resilience to extreme heat and climate risks. Eilish led the Australian Red Cross Telecross Ready program in South Australia, a service which calls vulnerable individuals during heatwaves to check in and prevent illness or death.