Aniebiet Inyang Ntui is a Nigerian Professor who has served as the Ambassador of the EU's European Climate Pact since December 2022. She was named by the Web of Science as the "Most Read Researcher in Nigeria" and is the current University Librarian of the University of Calabar. She chaired panels at the 2022 United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, Canada, the 2022 G20 Bali Summit in Indonesia, the United Nations Water Summit on Groundwater, held at the UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, and other international conferences.

Dr Renuka Thakore, PhD, MSc, BSc (Hons), PIEMA AFHEA, is the Founder of Global Sustainable Futures: Progress through Partnerships Network, United Kingdom. In this capacity, she leads a global network that administers multidisciplinary activities and research partnership development platforms. She has received several prestigious awards for her work, including the "Global Sustainability Award 2022," the "Development Leadership: Governor Enrique Tomás Cresto Award 2022," and the "Global SDG’s Women Ambassador Award 2022." With over 35 years of professional experience, Dr Thakore engages and connects with academics, businesses, and individuals from both the Global South and Global North to promote climate adaptation, resilience, and just transition. She applies systems thinking and transdisciplinarity to evaluate strategic realities and brings together technologies, emerging trends in data, skills, education and employment, and future scenarios to solve real-world problems.

Associate Professor Olga Laiza Kupika is a Natural Resources Conservationist and Climate Change expert with over a decade of experience in research, teaching, and community service. Until April 2023, she served as the Chairperson of the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at Chinhoyi University of Technology, Zimbabwe, and is recognized as the founding member of the Centre for Climatology and Applied Research (CCAR). As of 3rd April 2023, Olga is the Senior Research Fellow in Climate and Adaptation at Okavango Research Institute, University of Botswana. Olga has experience leading and working with multidisciplinary teams and is skilled at communicating with stakeholders and research partners at local, national, regional, and international forums. She has expertise in Climate Resilience projects, Climate change advocacy, Agro-ecology and Climate Change Adaptation, Biodiversity Assessments, Community Based Natural Resources and Livelihoods Monitoring and Development Projects, Environmental Safeguards/ Social and Environmental Standards Assessments, Environmental Policy Development and engagement, Environmental education campaigns, Academic mentorship, Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, and Education 5.0.

Ms Nancy Marangu is a passionate advocate for inclusion, gender, and climate mainstreaming. With 15 years of experience in strategic communication, planning, and management, she has enhanced disability and gender mainstreaming, entrepreneurship, and risk monitoring, evaluation, and management in the public, private, and development sectors. Nancy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication (Public Relations) and an MBA in Strategic Management and Electronic Commerce. She is a gifted storyteller and writes on thematic areas of environment, technology, and inclusion for Kenya's local dailies and Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) Energy Scoop Magazine. As a volunteer board member at the Gifted Community Centre, she empowers youth with disabilities with entrepreneurial skills. She has taught public speaking and served as an application reader for the 2022 and 2023 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. Nancy previously served on the board at Ukarimu Ministries Trust and as a mentor at the Global Give Back Circle-MasterCard Foundation Scholars Community Platform Mentoring Program.

Dr Kushal Adhikari, an Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering at the Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, focuses on integrating sustainability dimensions into engineering to build a sustainable and resilient society, with an emphasis on reducing, reusing, and recycling. His research interests include water sustainability through reclamation and reuse, climate-smart agriculture, water resource management optimisation techniques, food-energy-water nexus, and materials sustainability. Dr Adhikari has published extensively in prestigious professional journals such as the Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, and the Journal of Water Process Engineering, and has presented at multiple national and international conferences including ASCE-EWRI, AWWA, GSFN, and Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium 2022, where he recently served as a panel speaker.