Gabriela Nuri Baron is a researcher, educator, and strategist specializing in participatory methodologies for sustainability and conservation. A Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland, she collaborates with Indigenous and local communities, integrating decolonial approaches. She is a designer with a PhD in Environmental Engineering, and a certified DiveMaster.

Veronica helps adaptation researchers and government decision-makers to understand and value each other. Through leading core adaptation capability at Australia’s national research organisation, managing a research funding program on transformational adaptation in international development, and now being a nimble consultant, she works to scale rigorous adaptation decision-making up and out. James specialises in participatory systems research, developing tools and processes with decision-makers that enable them to better understand future change, and to adapt and innovate accordingly. His diverse background includes multi-disciplinary research in agricultural economics, development studies and ecology gained in Africa, Scotland, Australia and the Indo-Pacific region. Madiha is an early-career social scientist, using qualitative and quantitative skills to understand and address climate-induced migration, urban transitions, and climate resilience more broadly. She is particularly passionate about the practice of operationalising locally-led adaptation. Jon has thirty years’ interdisciplinary experience on climate change adaptation, mitigation, and transformation; soil and water conservation; and agricultural innovation systems from Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America. He fosters interdisciplinary research teams and builds transdisciplinary networks with policy-makers and other decision-makers to advance new discourses essential for transformational change. Ewelina is an experienced manager, social scientist, and communicator specialising in climate adaptation, nature-based solutions, and development and impact evaluation. She uses qualitative research skills to understand and nurture climate change responses taking place through societal change, policy and public administration. Hemant is a researcher, practitioner, and policy analyst. He works with decision makers, researchers, community groups, social entrepreneurs, and businesses to co-create impact across the Global South. He focuses cross-sectorally, tackling questions of governance, system innovation and transformation to improve justice, resilience, and sustainability in the rapidly changing world.