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.

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. Joyce Kimutai is a Climate Scientist affiliated with Kenya Meteorological Services and Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London. Joyce works at the nexus of climate and policy, with her research focusing on understanding the role of anthropogenic climate change in extreme weather and climate events to enhance climate risk awareness and inform policy and practice. 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. Bedoshruti Sadhukhan has 20 years of experience in the field of environment and climate resilience. She has worked in several countries of South Asia on sustainable development, environmental resource management, climate resilience, adaptation, vulnerability and risk assessment, water and waste management supporting multiple local governments to prepare climate action plans that look at urban service delivery and social inclusion. She has also worked on environmental justice, environmental impact assessment and public participation in decision making, tribal and housing rights. 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.

Bruce 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.

Tia is a human geographer with research interests in climate change adaptation, urban sustainability and development. She is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, exploring examples of adaptation planning and practice undertaken in Australia to understand what enables ‘best practice’ adaptation.