Dr Amrita Lamba is a postdoctoral researcher on the EU funded project in understanding migration governance, and agricultural and rural change across Europe, Asia and Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Her main tasks are related to the qualitative comparative analysis process in the project. Her research has focused on the analysis of inclusive governance, particularly in natural resources and urban development in Brazil, South Africa and India. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in these countries, including the Inkomati basin and the Bushbuckridge region in South Africa; and the Jaguaribe basin, Ceará and the Verde para Sempre extractive reserve in the Brazilian Amazon. More recently she led a pilot study on urban change in Bangalore, India Her PhD at SOAS tested the practical adequacy of an analytical framework for inclusive governance through comparative analyses of natural resources governance processes in Brazil and South Africa. The study also developed and tested the practicality of a method for qualitative comparative analysis grounded in critical realist ontology. Her other major areas of interest include innovations in institutional design, forced migration, poverty alleviation, adaptation and climate change. As a Bartlett research fellow at the Institute for Global Prosperity and the Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London, Amrita’s work examined the interconnections between healthy built environment, resources nexus and urban governance through comparison across cities in developing countries. She was a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Development Studies, SOAS, where she convened a course on natural resources and development. She has also been a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the theory, policy and practice of development and the political ecology of development. Previously, she has worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the UNDP.

Vicente Paolo B. Yu III served as the Deputy Executive Director of the South Centre (July 2016-June 2018), the intergovernmental policy research institution of developing countries, and currently coordinates the Centre’s work on global governance, climate change, investment, South-South cooperation, and sustainable development issues. His substantive policy work includes overseeing the policy research and analysis and the provision of technical policy and legal advice to developing country governments, including on the right to development, international environmental law, development economics, international climate change policy, and South-South cooperation. He obtained his political science (with honors) and law degrees from the University of the Philippines, and his master of laws degree (with honors, specializing in international trade law and international environmental law) from Georgetown University where he was a Fulbright Scholar. Prior to joining the South Centre, he worked for Friends of the Earth International (FOEI) and was a Staff Attorney and head for Research and Policy Development of the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center (LRC) in the Philippines. He has taught law at the University of the Philippines. He has also been a consultant for various United Nations agencies, providing research and training/capacity building services on development policy and on climate change issues. He has published papers and articles on issues relating to trade and environment, energy policy, mining policy, sustainable development, environmental policy, climate change policy, South-South cooperation, and indigenous peoples' rights.

Sean is developing a workstream on Just Transition at TASC - the Think Tank for Action on Social Change - in Ireland. This work aims to identify and address knowledge and capacity deficits that must be overcome in order to include workers and their communities the design, planning and implementation of a fair transition to sustainable economies and societies. The findings will help to inform people-centred climate action and sustainable development in Ireland and Europe. Sean holds an B.Sc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in Development Practice awarded by Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin. Prior to joining TASC, Sean worked as a Policy Officer with the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice for five years. During this time he engaged with the negotiations leading to the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. He also led the Foundation’s work on intergenerational equity. Sean spent five years working in the private sector, as a catastrophe risk analyst with Renaissance Reinsurance. He also spent 2 years working in a hospice in Kolkata, India, and worked with the Environmental Protection Agency in Sierra Leone building the agencies capacity in Geographic Information Systems.

Abel Chemura is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany working on integrated agricultural systems research with crop models and earth observation data at local and regional scales with focus in the tropics. He has over 12 years experience in systems agronomy where he supports evidence-based decision making with satellite remote sensing for agricultural applications and biophysical modelling. His experience is in rapid crop appraisal for climate impact assessment and development of sustainable adaptation methods. He is also working with strategic foresight modelling which uses machine learning algorithms on big data on climate, management and remotely sensed data to establish production potential that is useful in informing technical and policy decisions on the probabilities of successful cropping under current and projected climatic conditions. He is passionate about contributing to agricultural development in Africa through use of integrated modelling to inform technical planning and policy making for climate resilience.