Tjasa Griessler Bulc PhD Biology is a full professor for sanitary engineering, specialized on water management and nature based solutions (NBS). She works as a lecturer, researcher, project manager, and as a consultant. In her career she has presented her work in many publications and at numerous national and international conferences and meetings. Since 1990 she has participated in planning of more than 60 applications of nature based solutions (NBS) e.g. constructed wetlands. for wastewater treatment and reuse as well as for other green infrastructure. In Madrid in 2001, she was awarded with prestigious Lillehammer Award for innovative development of NBS in the framework of the biggest industrial development programme Eureka. In 2002, she and her colleagues were nominated for the European Award of the Year for landfill remediation based on NBS. She obtained 3 patents for her innovations for water treatment in Slovenia and Croatia. In 2008 she and her colleagues at Limnos Ltd. were awarded for innovative wastewater reuse solutions with the Energy Globe Award in the European parliament by high EU representatives). Since 2009 she has been working at the University of Ljubljana at Faculty of Health Sciences and Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering where she researches in the frame of international and national research projects and lectures water relating topics. Tjaša Griessler Bulc is Chair of Global Water Partnership for Central and Eastern European countries (GWP CEE). She is a a reviewer of many scientific publications, and a holder of European Certification & Qualification Association (ECQUA) certificate: EU project manager.

Markus Groth works with the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS). He is primarily concerned with i) impacts of climate change on the energy sector and other "critical" infrastructures, ii) analyzing the political framework of the German energy transition ("Energiewende") in order to take account of climate change impacts, iii) the identification and classification of climate change related opportunities and risks for companies, iv) the development of climate services for companies to integrate climate change into business strategies as well as v) the development of climate services for cities/municipalities to help them adapting adequately to the impacts of climate change. Besides his work for GERICS, he acted as a visiting scientist and lecturer in the field of sustainability economics at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg from October 2014 to September 2017. Previously, Markus Groth worked at the University of Göttingen, the University of Lüneburg and the University of Hamburg as a research assistant and lecturer in the fields of sustainability economics, environmental and resource economics, as well as energy and climate policy.