Nam Pham is director of the Economy and Environment Partnership for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA) and Environment for Development center in Vietnam (EfD-Vietnam), UEH University. His research interests include environmental and experimental economics with a particular focus on climate change, green growth and behavioral development issues. He has published in a number opeer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic Behavioral and Organization, Journal of Economic Psychology, Land Use Policy or Journal of Development Studies.

Professor of Education, Harvard University. Paola's research in educational linguistics examines language and literacy development in monolingual and bilingual learners and seeks to inform research-based pedagogies that empower all learners’ voices. She studied linguistics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and earned her doctoral degree in Human Development and Psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She leads the Language for Learning research team https://languageforlearning.gse.harvard.edu/.

Evan Grégoire is a dual Ph.D. candidate specializing in political theory at Columbia University and Sciences Po, working with Nadia Urbinati (Columbia) and Bernard Reber (Sciences Po). His dissertation seeks to answer the question, “under what conditions can deliberation work?" paying particular attention to the collegial and deliberative governance of professional service firms. Evan Grégoire is a 2022-2023 Fulbright recipient. Prior to enrolling at Columbia, Mr. Grégoire received four master’s degrees with distinction from the École Normale Supérieure Ulm (in philosophy, with a concentration in contemporary philosophy), Paris Sciences et Lettres, Sciences Po (in political science, with a concentration in political theory) and HEC Paris (in management, with a concentration in sustainability and social innovation). He was a visiting student at Scuola Superiori Sant’Anna (Italy), Scuola di Studi Superiori "Ferdinando Rossi"(Italy), and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). As part of his Ph.D., Mr. Grégoire taught courses in political science and management both at Sciences Po and Columbia University and participated in the grading of graduate-level exams (notably, at the School of Management and Impact, the Paris School of International Affairs and Columbia School of Professional Studies). Mr. Grégoire is a French citizen with fluency and international work experience in English and French. He also worked for leading companies including Mazars (the largest French consultancy) and Carrefour (the largest European food retailer), as well as top universities including the University of Bristol and ESCP Business School and international organisations (UNESCO). He speaks fluent French and Spanish which helped him conduct foresight analysis, write policy briefs and recommendations, as well as lead stakeholder engagement tasks.

Jon Einar Flatnes is an applied development economist and Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. He holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural & Resource Economics from the University of California, Davis, USA. His area of expertise is poverty, resilience, and climate adaptation among poor and vulnerable populations, and his research to date has focused on understanding how innovative financial products, such as microfinance and insurance contracts, can help mitigate risk and improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.