Dr. Deepal Doshi is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Geography at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU). Her research focuses on questions of urban risk, adaptation finance and risk governance – particularly in the Global South. She also serves as a Chapter Scientist in the IPCC’s upcoming Special Report on Climate Change and Cities.

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.

Prof. Matthias Garschagen is chair in Human Geography and Human Environment Relations at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU). His research focuses on risk, vulnerability, adaptation and transformation in the context of environmental hazards and climate change, particularly in cities. He has been an author in several IPCC reports.

Vanessa Lueck is a Researcher-in-Residence on the Living with Water project at PICS and a Senior Sustainability Scientist at GIOSI. Her research and work include sustainable coastal adaptation, adaptation governance, complex adaptive systems, justice and equity, local and Indigenous perspectives, nature-based approaches and innovative governance solutions.

Nadine is a Research Officer a the ACDI where she has successfully managed several complex, interdisciplinary research projects at the interface of climate change adaptation and sustainable development. Nadine’s work focuses on building partnerships and fostering knowledge co-production to advance effective and equitable climate change adaptation across Africa.

Ayesha Siddiqi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the production of socio-political relationships, networks and knowledges around climate relation disasters in the postcolonial world.

Dennis Wilke is a research associate in the working group of Resources Management at Osnabrück University since October 2022. His PhD research examines the conditions that foster adaptive capacity of social-ecological systems to water scarcity, focusing on community-based water organizations in northwest Costa Rica.

Lisa de Kleyn is Postdoctoral Researcher at the La Trobe Climate Adaptation Lab.

David Schlosberg is Director of the Sydney Environment Institute and Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of Sydney

Justin See is Lecturer of Development Studies, University of Melbourne.

Associate Professor Brooke Wilmsen is a Human Geographer at La Trobe University. Her research focuses on resettlement, climate adaptation, and agrarian change, primarily in China but also West Africa, Southeast Asia, and Australia. Brooke is currently CI on the multi-year project "Reframing the Yield Gap" funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) which is exploring smallholder rice production in the Philippines. She is also CI on two smaller projects, one that is attempting to reframe the notion of climate security through place-based understandings and another following China's agrochemical engagement in Australia. She has held an ARC DECRA fellowship and was Chief Investigator on an ARC Discovery Project examining China's agricultural restructuring (2018-2023). Her work has been published in leading journals including Global Environmental Change, World Development, Geoforum and Development and Change.

Baye Massene Diallo, an international student from Senegal, is pursuing an M.S. in Economics and a Graduate Certificate in Economic Analytics at Boise State University. With dual bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Business Administration, his research focuses on environmental economics, contributing to projects addressing related challenges.