Maeve is Project Lead at the Social Guarantee and a Non- Executive Director at Positive Money. She is also studying a MSc in Urban Planning at Newcastle University. Her work is focused on developing Universal Basic Services and a Feminist Green New Deal. During her undergraduate degree Maeve co-founded Rethinking Economics, an international, student-led campaign to reform economics education.

Luisa Cortesi (dual Ph.D., Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Yale University, with distinction) is an environmental anthropologist who studies how people know about, and adapt, to water disasters, a process that involves technologies and infrastructure, as well as institutions and social differences. Her work intersects with science and technologies studies, the environmental sciences of water, development studies, the environmental humanities, South Asian studies. She is Assistant Professor at the International Institute of Social Sciences, Erasmus University; Marie S. Curie Junior Fellow, Sustainability Fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies; Affiliate Professor of Environment and Sustainability, Cornell University. She has been Stanford H. Taylor Postdoctoral Fellow in Science and Technology Studies and Anthropology, as well as Atkinson Fellow in Sustainability, at Cornell University, USA (2018-2020). Her work has been awarded the 2019 Field Prize for “poetic and literary” scholarship, the highest honor for graduate dissertations at Yale, the (2017-2018) for “high academic standards” based on a national competition amongst graduate students of any discipline in the U.S.A.; the 2017 Eric Wolf Prize for “advancing the field of political ecology”; the 2017-2018 biennial PRAXIS Applied Anthropology Award for “outstanding achievement in translating anthropological knowledge into action”; and the 2016 Curl Essay Prize by the Royal Anthropological Institute for “the best paper relating to the results or analysis of anthropological work.” Her research has been supported by the Fulbright-IIE, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Josephine de Karman Foundation, American Institute of Indian Studies, MacMillan Centre, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, The Tropical Institute, the European Union. Luisa has served as a water expert for the United Nations, and continues to support several NGOs in India and in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has founded and leads the Water Justice and Adaptation LAB, a new platform for collaborative work between scientists and communities on water-related environmental justice.

Yume is an Associate Researcher at Includovate, a research incubator based in Australia and Ethiopia. She holds a BA with a First-Class Honours in International Development with International Education from the University of Sussex. In 2019 and 2020, she received global research awards for her research focused on marginalised groups of people including women and children, including the Thomas Clarkson Gold Medal Award in the Social Sciences: Anthropology and Cultural Studies category from the Global Undergraduate Awards.

As Director of the SME Climate Hub at We Mean Business, I work with international partners, multinational companies and governments to accelerate a global movement and develop a one-stop-shop platform mobilizing small and medium-sized enterprises to take climate action on net zero. I previously served as Head of City Business Climate Alliances at C40 Cities, where I was responsible for expanding C40’s service offering to member cities relating to the acceleration of climate solutions with local and global businesses. My experience also includes initiating and leading multi-partner programmes focused on innovation and sustainability for Virgin Unite, the non-profit arm of the Virgin Group, and University of the Arts London.