Elvira Rumkabu is a lecturer of international relations at Cenderawasih University based in Jayapura, Papua. She completed her Master's Degree at the Australian National University. Her areas of expertise are conflict resolution, peace studies, and Papuan politics. Elvira is a member of the Academics Forum for Papua Peace (FAPD), a forum established by Indonesian lecturers to initiate conflict resolution and peacebuilding in Papua. She is actively involved in the Peaceful Papua Lobbying Team, initiated by the Democratic Alliance for Papua (ALDP). Elvira has written about issues relating to the conflict in Papua in a number of publications. She has also spoken about conflict resolution in Papua, racism and marginalisation, and women, peace and security in national and international forums

Dr. George Carter is Professor at Australia National University.  His research interests focus on understanding small states and peoples’ influence in decision-making processes in international politics. His projects explore Pacific states and Small Island Developing States' agency in multilateral climate change negotiations, regionalism, climate security, climate knowledge and education, foreign policymaking and geopolitical security interests, Oceania diplomacy and Pacific diaspora politics.

Dr. Nicole Redvers, ND, MPH, is a member of the Deninu K’ue First Nation (Northwest Territories, Canada) and has worked with Indigenous patients, scholars, and communities around the globe her entire career. She is an Associate Professor, Western Research Chair, and Director of Indigenous Planetary Health at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University. She has been actively involved at regional, national, and international levels promoting the inclusion of Indigenous perspectives in both human and planetary health research and practice. Dr. Redvers is the author of the trade paperback book titled, ‘The Science of the Sacred: Bridging Global Indigenous Medicine Systems and Modern Scientific Principles’.

Tafue M Lusama is Climate Change Project Officer for the climate change unit of the Pacific Theological College in Suva, Fiji, where he also heads the Institute for Climate Indigenous Knowledge (ICIK) within PTC. His passion is on climate justice, and this, he believes, can only be achieved through a total transformation in our mindset, and the inclusion of indigenous climate knowledge in the climate narrative and policies. He completed his doctoral studies in 2021 in which he redefined the theology of God from a Tuvaluan indigenous perspective in relation to climate change and the suffering that the vulnerable communities in the region are facing.  He is the former General Secretary of the Ekalesia Kelisiano Tuvalu (Tuvalu Christian Church) and Program secretary for Peace and Justice within his national church, which includes dealing with the issue of climate change. He was instrumental in establishing the Tuvalu Climate Action Network (TuCAN), and advocating for the voiceless on climate justice regionally, and globally.