Julie is a principal researcher at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). She has 20 years of experience advancing climate adaptation through research, knowledge mobilization, and policy engagement. She collaborates with governments, NGOs, and academic partners to address climate risks, with a particular focus on amplifying the participation and influence of people in highly vulnerable situations. In her current role at IISD’s Resilience Program, she defines research strategy and identifies new strategic directions for the program.

Paula (Urban Intelligence/Waikato University) specialises in mechanisms and processes to establish dialogue (e.g., engagement, collaboration, co-production of knowledge, co-innovation, co-learning, and serious games) between scientists, managers and the community to understand challenges and to achieve negotiated outcomes and solutions in climate risk and adaptation

Peter Edwards is a Senior Researcher in political sociologist at Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, with a strong interest and experience in forest and environmental policy and governance. In working with complex (wicked) problems across the environmental sphere and adaptive governance, Peter was introduced to serious games.

Sandra Lavorel is a functional ecologist focusing on the interlinkages between human-driven changes in land and climate, ecosystems and their contributions to humans. She combines multiple participatory methodologies for generating future visions and adaptation pathways, including serious games that allow stakeholders to develop spatially-explicit scenarios of adaptation or enact key barriers and levers to adaptation.

Dan Richards is a landscape ecologist interested in climate change adaptation at local to global scales. His current work includes scoping the potential for generative artificial intelligence to support adaptation planning, using serious games as an approach to test the technology.

Pike is Principal Economist and econometrician focusing on survey design, enumeration, and inferential analysis. His expertise includes economic behaviour; complex decision making; and climate adaptation and mitigation. Pike has designed a game for farmers to test different adaptation strategies. In his free time, Pike enjoys playing strategic board games