Lucia Valentine is a doctoral candidate studying urban planning at the University of Auckland. Her interests lie in researching emerging theories on how to address climate change, including climate resilient development and intersectional climate justice, and how these theories can be adapted to suit Aotearoa New Zealand’s unique context.

Dr. Yvonne Su is an assistant professor at York University. She is a specialist in forced migration, climate change-induced adaptation, climate migration and post-disaster recovery. She takes an interdisciplinary, participatory and decolonial approach to scholarship that is focused on developing strong partnerships with local communities, NGOs, and policymakers.

Faisal Bin islam is a human geographer from Bangladesh. He uses political ecology and decolonial methodology to understand the geopolitics of knowledge production around climate change and development.

Claire is a Doctoral student at University of Canterbury NZ and a policy advocacy professional with nine years of experience working in social and environmental justice organisations that support local communities through empowerment and advocacy. She holds two Masters in Public and International Law and Development Studies(University of Melbourne).

Ritodhi is a lecturer (assistant professor) at Lincoln University NZ. He works at the science-practitioner interface, investigating epistemic plurality, wellbeing of rural and Indigenous communities and politics of Climate Adaptation. He is co-developing a set of Climate Justice Tools which include the Maladaptation Assessment Tool and the Knowledge Justice Protocol.

Carolynne is a spatial data scientist who develops computational approaches to integrate and validate data on physical and human systems for decision making during disasters. A core aspect of her research is the evaluation of citizen science data to improve monitoring of environmental hazards at local scales.

Dr Elizabeth Macpherson is a Pākehā (New Zealander of European-settler descent) Professor of Law and Rutherford Discovery Fellow (RDF) at the University of Canterbury. She researches comparative environmental, natural resources, and constitutional law, and leads the RDF programme Blue Carbon Futures in Aotearoa New Zealand: Law, Climate, Resilience.

Dr Matunga is a Professor at Lincoln University NZ. Over four decades his research, practice and advocacy focus has been Māori self-determination through planning, design, environmental management and policy analysis and Indigenous people’s experience.

Lisa is a professor of development geography at the University of Bonn. Using a critical lens, Lisa has been engaging with questions of adaptation and maladaptation in adaptation projects for more than two decades, specifically focussing on adaptation and development in the Global South.

Dr. Vunibola is a Senior Lecturer at Lincoln University NZ. His expertise is in the broad interdisciplinary areas of development studies, human geography, ethnography, ethno-ecology, climate crisis and community production. He is an expert on indigenous knowledge, community innovation and social transformation in the Pacific.