Thirty years’ agricultural research experience from Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America on climate change adaptation and social equity. Fifteen years’ experience fostering interdisciplinary research teams and building trans-disciplinary networks to enhance climate change transformative adaptation.

Nicole is a climate strategy and policy expert. She applies futures thinking and systems approaches to empower bold climate decisions. Her work bridges long-term environmental planning with actionable policy, catalyzing change across complex landscapes.

Dr Nalau is an adaptation scientist who is profoundly curious about the human nature and its ability to adapt as we navigate often through challenging decisions. Her research focuses on adaptation heuristics that are rules of thumb on how we can, could or should adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Kimberley Anh Thomas is an Associate Professor and Graduate Chair in the Department of Geography, Environment and Urban Studies at Temple University (Philadelphia, USA). She contributes to critical adaptation studies through research on uneven vulnerability to environmental hazards, climate finance, and agrarian change.

Ritodhi Chakraborty 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.

Michael Mikulewicz is an assistant professor at the Department of Environmental Studies at SUNY ESF. His research is focused on climate justice and climate change adaptation and investigates the inequalities related to the impacts of, and societal responses to, climate change.

Meg Mills-Novoa is an assistant professor with a joint appointment to the Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management and the Energy and Resources Group. Meg is the director of the Climate Futures Lab, a hub for social science research on the impact and equity of climate change responses.

Chanrith Ngin is an Honorary Academic and Research Associate at the University of Auckland. He was previously Senior Research Fellow at the Cambodia Development Resource Institute and Visiting Fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore. Currently, he is a co-editor of Routledge Studies in Global Land and Resource Grabbing for Taylor & Francis Group.

Lisa Schipper has spent nearly three decades researching adaptation, maladaptation and development. She is professor of Development Geography at the University of Bonn, where she coordinates the AdaptationHive collective for Critical Adaptation Studies.