Dr Niyati is a postdoctoral fellow in Gender Research at the International Rice Research Institute, Hyderabad. A development economist, she specializes in research on digital innovation for gender-equitable and climate-resilient agrifood systems. She holds a PhD in Development Studies, focusing on gender and labor in rice farming.

Dr. Franca Buelow is a Postdoc and coordinator of an interdisciplinary project on sustainability governance of global value chains. She uses linguistic methods, experiments, data analyses and participatiory methods to study climate adaptation and diversity at individual and aggregate levels. Zoe Greer, a Psychology PhD student at Victoria University of Wellington, is a Research Associate in Psychometrics at GESIS. She combines survey methodology, NLP, and qualitative analysis to study construct validity and scientific and public discourses.

Vishvak focuses on integrating climate adaptation planning, securing adaptation finance, and implementing programs that enhance community resilience.