Patricia Nying’uro is a climate scientist and researcher affiliated to the Kenya Meteorological Department and the Oescheger Center for Climate Research. She works at the Science-Policy interface making science and research actionable and relevant for implementation and policy development. Current research is on the impacts of climate change on health with heat and nutrition as proxies.

Grace O’Donovan is a Project Manager at the CLARE R4I (Research for Impact) Hub at SouthSouthNorth (SSN). She manages the CLARE R4I Opportunities Fund, driving the uptake of existing research in climate adaptation and resilience projects across Africa and Asia-Pacific.

Roop Singh is the Head of Urban and Attribution at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre. She has over ten years of experience as an interlocutor between scientists and disaster risk management practitioners, and currently leads on the RCRCCC’s work on heat risk.