Zoe Brown is a PhD researcher at the University of Oxford, originally from The Bahamas. She is studying Nature-based Solutions for climate adaptation in Small Island Developing States. Zoe holds an MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation, and Management from Oxford and a BSc with Honours in Biology from Acadia University, Canada.

With over 30 years’ experience of coastal management and adaptation in Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific, Sian is Haskoning’s Resident Director for Aotearoa New Zealand. Sian is an environmental and safeguards specialist with robust experience in coastal and marine development, adaptation and community resilience initiatives.

Dr. Rosanne Martyr is a senior scientist at Climate Analytics, a global climate science and policy institute. Her research focuses on climate risk, potential and limits of adaptation, and the connections across risk, adaptation, and loss and damage, with a focus on Small Island Developing States. Dr. Gundula Winter is a researcher and advisor at Deltares, an independent Dutch knowledge institute for water and the subsurface. Her work focuses on coastal and flood modelling, development of adaptation decision support systems, and adaptation pathways for Small Island States.

Séverine Bouard is a human geographer. She assesses the extent of agriculture, hunting/fishing activities among Indigenous Pacific people. She explains they are influenced by and affect natural resources management and climate change, and she examines this in the context of the commodification of nature and emerging indigenous discourses on nature and places. Catherine Sabinot has been an environmental anthropologist at the IRD in Nouméa for 13 years, involved in research programmes focusing on adaptation and sustainability of island territories. For the last 5 years, she has been an expert at the IPBES, participating as lead author in the assessment on transformative change. Christophe Menkes and Alexandre Peltier are climate researchers specialized in Pacific climate extremes (e.g cyclones, heat waves) and variabilities from ENSO (El Niño/Southern Oscillation) down to long-term changes (e.g climate change) as well as Island scale climates in the Pacific Gildas Guidigan is a meteorologist and climate scientist specialized in land atmosphere interaction effect on land surface energy and their impact on agriculture. Dakéga Ragatoa is a climate scientist specialized in land-atmosphere interactions, dynamics and impacts of climate extremes in tropical regions. Maya Leclercq is a social anthropologist and project manager, corkin on issues related to environmental and social impacts. Samson Jean-Marie, with degrees in Agricultural Engineering and Marine and Coastal Sciences, is pursuing a PhD on climate change resilience in New Caledonia and Vanuatu under the CLIPSSA project. Supervised by Sabinot, David, and Menkes, he has experience in ecological transition, maritime fisheries, and agricultural public services in Haiti and France. Fleur VALLET is an environmental geographer specialising in climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, sustainable cities and biodiversity conservation in developing and emerging countries (Africa, the Indian Ocean, South Pacific). She has worked on cross-cutting and interdisciplinary development projects for public development agencies, governments and international and national research institutes.

Gildas is a meteorologist and climate scientist specialized in land atmosphere interaction effect on land surface energy and their impact on agriculture.

PhD Student, Espacedev Unit. (IRD, UM, UR, UA, UG, UNC), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD).

Maya is a social anthropologist and project manager, corkin on issues related to environmental and social impacts. Farmers’ capacity of experimentation as a lever for adapting to climate change in French Polynesia

Dakéga is a climate scientist specialized in land-atmosphere interactions, dynamics and impacts of climate extremes in tropical regions.

An independent academic, researcher, writer and consultant, Michael works across an interdisciplinary space in the humanities and social sciences. He has extensive experience researching and writing about relationships between Indigenous and Western knowledges, ecologies and histories, including theorising alternative postcolonial and adaptive futures. He has published widely in this area.