Bruce Glavovic is a Professor at Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand. He has worked as a policy advisor, consultant planner, and academic in South Africa, the USA, and New Zealand. His research centres on how to make societal choices in turbulent times, with a focus on: Adapting to climate change; natural hazards planning; coastal governance; and collaborative planning and conflict transformation.

Maisie Fisher is a planner at Barker and Associates with a Master of Planning (Distinction) from the University of Otago. Her research, conducted for the Resilience to Nature’s Challenges National Science Programme, focused on rural community resilience to natural hazards, exploring the role of grassroots initiatives and institutional support.

Vuyisile is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at ACDI, University of Cape Town. He is working on the Heat Adaptation Benefits for Vulnerable Groups in Africa (HABVIA) project to address some of the large evidence gaps on the human health and wider social outcomes of heat adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

Salman Yousaf is a PhD Candidate at the University of Canterbury, working under the supervision of Joerg Finsterwalder. Interests in Transformative Service Research, service ecosystems, circular economy, regeneration, and indigenous food practices. Joerg Finsterwalder's interests in service research include: co-creation of services, customer-to-customer interaction, group services and consumer tribes, value networks and service ecosystems, service consumer behaviour, customer experience, disasters and services. Industry specific interests are in the creative, airline and automotive industries. Lucie Ozanne's Research interests include social marketing and corporate social responsibility. Denise Conroy specialising in understanding the attitudes, emotions, values and cognitions that motivate people to consume specific products, brands or experiences, or to reject these offerings