Adithya Variath is an Assistant Professor of Law and Coordinator of the Centre for Research in Air and Space Law at Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai, India. He is also a Research Fellow at the Information Society Law Center, University of Milan, Italy. He was also a Research Group Member at the Centre for AI and Digital Policy, Washington, DC, USA. He writes frequently on issues of international law for Geopolitics, the Pioneer, Modern Diplomacy, Oriental Review, etc. He is the Founding Editor of the Indian Review of Air and Space Law.

Dr Jackson Otieno is Water Economist at Athi Water Works Development Agency and a Research Fellow of the EfD in Kenya where he also doubles up as an executive committee member. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cape Town, School of Economics. He is also a guest lecturer at the University of Nairobi and supports the Department of Meteorology at the University of Nairobi in supervision of students. He is a former Principal Economist with National Treasury and Planning, Kenya. His current research interest is in the area of biodiversity conservation, climate change, water and sanitation, valuation of non-market environmental amenities, and economics of wildlife conservation.

I am chief researcher/associate professor at the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) at the University of Cape Town, with a PhD in Sociology and close to two decades of experience in leading multi-disciplinary research projects that focus on youth, poverty and deprivation. My work spans longitudinal quantitative data analysis, ethnographic studies and implementation research, involving careful, high level policy engagement.

Canada Research Chair in Policies and Health Inequalities Chair and Professor, Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy, School of Population and Global Health Professor, Department of Sociology McGill University, Canada Founding Director of the Consortium on Analytics for Data-Driven Decision making (CAnD3), (https://mcgill.ca/cand3/), an international consortium of 38 academic, government, private and nonprofit organizations delivering training in support of data-driven decision making in ageing societies.