Ian Adams, director of Organica Engineering is a Sustainability Engineer and a industry leader with over 20 years’ experience in delivering sustainable buildings and developments.  Ian has successfully integrated ESD solutions into hundreds of developments around Australia.   He is a certified assessor and trainer for the Green Building Council of Australia, regularly lectures at RMIT and Melbourne Universities on sustainable design and city infrastructure. Ian has been instrumental in helping develop industry toolkits such as Green Star, BESS, and InSite Water, and he has an in-depth knowledge of how to implement sustainable design in buildings. His experience includes working with organisations like the Frasers, Mirvac, DHHS, Department of Defence, Councils and industry organisations on implementing and reporting on their Sustainability Strategies. Ian is passionate about both technology and environmental issues, and he loves getting out into national parks and wilderness (while using the latest high tech outdoor gear).

Ibukun is a final-year PhD Energy and Climate Change Policy Researcher at the University of Salford. Her research aims to explore how cities implement large scale district heating (DH) networks from a socio-technical perspective with a view to finding best practices and effective governing measures that can overcome the main barriers limiting the uptake and delivery of district heating at scale. Her PhD thesis seeks to provide evidence-based guidelines and policy levers on how to implement large scale DH networks which provide greater opportunities for decarbonisation, increased energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness in the heat sector through secondary case study research in Copenhagen, Stockholm and Helsinki as well as primary case study research in Greater Manchester (GM). Over the years, Ibukun's skills, experience and continued interests in the study of public policy has contributed significantly to her understanding of the literature on policy studies, how it pertains to various fields, and the key components integral to the success of policies. She currently works as a policy advisor on Home Retrofit and Energy Efficiency Standards in the Private Rented Sector at the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy.

Afolabi, Aanuoluwapo Adeyimika is a young Public health expert with experience in local and global public health events. Aanuoluwapo's research interest is focused on public health, global health, epidemiology, infectious diseases, environmental health, reproductive health, and family health. Aanuoluwapo is a member of the Epidemiological Society of Nigeria, Society for Adolescent and Young people's health in Nigeria, and the American Society of Microbiology. She has co-authored more than thirty publications on the prevention and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases which have been published in national and international journals. She has presented in many scientific conferences including the First African and Second Nigerian Coference of the Society for Adolescent and Young People's Health in Nigeria, Nigeran Conference of Applied Epidemiology, and the Epidemiological Society of Nigeria Conference 2021. Aanuoluwapo has excellent data analysis skills and exhibits team spirit in all her engagements.

Yahaya Abbas Aliyu is a faculty member with the Department of Geomatics, Faculty of Environmental Design, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria since 2011. His research interest includes land surveying, spatial data analysis, exposure assessment, exposure assessment, satellite image analysis and geoinformatics.

I am a psychologist graduated from the Universidad de La Frontera (Temuco, Chile) since 2016. Later, I obtained my master's degree in psychology in 2018 and I am currently studying a doctorate in Social Sciences at the same university. I have worked on several research projects in the area of ​​environmental and social psychology. Our research team mainly studies the relationship between air quality or PM2.5 and people's perception of air pollution, their attitudes, level of consciousness, information and many others. We also analyze the effects of wood heating systems on air quality, since it is the main heating system in southern Chile (Temuco). Our goal is to produce valuable information to improve public policies on air quality and the environmental conditions of many vulnerable cities that shape southern Chile, Latin América and the world.

Dr. Farshad Amiraslani has been involved in dryland management and research over the last 20 years. As a Terrestrial Ecologist, he has worked and supervised research on analysis of human-environment interactions at various spatial or temporal scales with topics varied from ecological response to changes (e.g., climate, land-use) to wildlife habitat to carbon sequestration of forests to long-distance dust transport by employing RS/GIS technologies and linking empirical data with quantitative models. He has won several international awards and fellowships and published over 85 publications (including in Nature). He has been invited as a reviewer for global environmental reports as well as top scientific journals. He is serving as an Editorial Board Member of Pollutants Journal. He has been elected or invited for various consultancies and publication assignments for the UN and international organizations. Since 2016, he has been elected as one of the 14 Scientific and Technical Committee (STC) members, currently as the Vice-Chair, for “4 per 1000” initiative to improve soil carbon at the global level. During 2012-13, he served as one of the 12 global members to serve on the Ad Hoc Working Group on Scientific Advice to design a new mechanism for science-policy communication for the UNCCD.

A computing student of the British Columbia Institute of Technology with an interest in security and databases.

Ms Ingrid Andersson, Senior Expert at IKED, holds an Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) from HEC Paris, with a major in Differentiation and Innovation through Services. Her focus areas include business development, innovation strategies and tailoring to special customer needs and co-creation. In URBiNAT, she is responsible for community engagement in support of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), applying behavioural-change methodology in digital communication. Further, she has many years' experience of developing “zero-emissions” eco-houses and local community development. In collaboration with Japanese partners, she established the "Swedish Ecovillage" in Nagoya, Japan, based on exports from Sweden of tailor-made pre-manufactured houses and comprising a self-reliant ecosystem embedding renewable energy systems as well as water- and waste-management. As a serial entrepreneur, she engages in mentorship of women entrepreneurs, facilitating private equity and business angel investment. She is a member of the OECD-MENA Women´s Business Forum. In a research and action project coordinated by Qatar University, funded by the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), she is responsible for cross-border linking of business incubators, notably between Europe and the Middle East. Among other positions, she is a board member at the Qatar Investment Fund, and a member of the Steering committee of the Global Forum,