Selam Kidane Abebe is a senior research fellow in Net Zero Law at the Oxford Net Zero Programme and a member of the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme. She is also a legal advisor to the Africa Group of Negotiators on Climate Change under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Prior to this, she worked as an environmental law expert for the Environmental Protection Authority of Ethiopia. Selam holds a PhD in law from the University of Reading, where she was a Leverhulme doctoral scholar on climate justice.
Elisa Calliari is a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Vienna and at the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change in Venice. She is also an associate senior research fellow at the Department of Political Science, University College London. Her research explores how policymakers at different governance scales understand and address those impacts from climate change that exceed the capacity to adapt. She has published in high-impact interdisciplinary journals such as Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Global Environmental Change, Environmental Politics, Environmental Research Letter, Environmental Science and Policy, and Science of the Total Environment. Elisa is part of the Italian and European Union delegation at the UNFCCC, where she focuses on loss and damage negotiations.
Md Fahad Hossain is the program coordinator of the Least Developed Countries Universities Consortium on Climate Change, hosted at the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) in Bangladesh. His responsibilities include, among others, managing multiple projects focused on building in-country capacities of least developed countries to address loss and damage, including researching case studies and developing frameworks to integrate loss and damage into national policy and institutional frameworks, with universities serving as the vehicle for these initiatives.
Asaye Ketema is a policy engagement specialist at the Environment and Climate Research Center and the Environment for Development Center (Ethiopia), working on the Inclusive Green Economy program.
Monserrat Madariaga Gómez de Cuenca is a PhD candidate in climate change law at University College London. Before her doctoral studies, she practiced public and environmental law in Chile, working with various civil society organizations on the preparation of the twenty-fifth session of the Conference of the Parties. Monserrat lectures on international environmental law at University College London and different Chilean universities and works for Legal Response International, a nongovernmental organization providing legal support to developing countries in the UNFCCC negotiations and in the development of domestic responses to climate change. She is also the legal advisor to the Chilean delegation to the UNFCCC.
Nusrat Naushin is the program coordinator of the Loss and Damage Programme at the ICCCAD. Her research focus lies in the areas of noneconomic loss and damage, climate negotiations, locally led adaptation, climate finance, advocacy, and storytelling.
Michai Robertson is a Senior Advisor on Climate Finance for the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). He is also Lead Negotiator on Climate Finance to the AOSIS chair and has previously advised the AOSIS chair on climate change, oceans, and legal matters. Michai also works as a policy officer within the Department of Environment of Antigua and Barbuda, where he is responsible for international and domestic environmental law and policy matters, including climate change adaptation planning, finance, and loss and damage. He has also been a research associate at ODI Global Advisory.
Adelle Thomas is Senior Director, Adaptation at the Natural Resources Defense Council and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II Vice-Chair for the IPCC’s seventh assessment cycle. Prior to this, she served as an IPCC lead author in the sixth assessment cycle and was a senior Caribbean research associate and resilience expert at Climate Analytics. Her particular focus is on aspects of social vulnerability, adaptation strategies, and loss and damage. Her work has been published in Science, the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Nature Climate Change, and Regional Environmental Change. Adelle is also Director of the Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Research Centre at the University of The Bahamas.
Lisa Vanhala is Professor of Political Science at University College London and was the principal investigator on the European Research Council Starting Grant on the Politics and Governance of Climate Change Loss and Damage. She is also Pro Vice-Provost for the Grand Challenge of the Climate Crisis at UCL. Her recent work on loss and damage, climate change litigation, and environmental legal mobilization has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Global Environmental Politics, Global Environmental Change, and Environmental Politics. She is also the author of Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage on the history of loss and damage in the UNFCCC.
Douwe van Schie is a PhD candidate at the University of Bonn and a researcher at United Nations University’s Institute for Environment and Human Security. Previously, he was a visiting researcher on loss and damage at the ICCCAD. His research focuses on (noneconomic) loss and damage, values, and intersectional inequalities.
Latonya Williams is employed with the Forestry Unit, Ministry of the Environment and Housing as Forest Supervisor in The Bahamas. She is specifically responsible for the implementation and advancement of Geographic Information Systems initiatives, including land use–land cover mapping, forest inventory, and forest management.
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