Steve Widdicombe is the Director of Science for Plymouth Marine Laboratory.

Dr. V.B. Mathur is the Chairperson, National Biodiversity Authority, India since September 2019. Prior to this, he served as the Director of the Wildlife Institute of India between 2014-19. Dr. Mathur is the Regional Vice-Chair of the IUCN-World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA-South Asia) and Member of the International Association of Impact Assessment (IAIA). He has now spent over three decades in actively contributing to a wide range of training, research and academic programmes in the field of biodiversity conservation.

Dr. Santosh received his Ph.D. from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands. His expertise lies in Fluid-structure-interaction (FSI), CFD, Contact & Continuum Mechanics. He authored numerous international journal papers and presented technical papers in various international conferences and workshops. He helped Structural Mechanics group of TU Delft win many research funding proposals and collaborated with many esteemed research groups and universities in the US, UK, Europe. Currently, he’s heading Engineering dept. of HSL Constructor Pte Ltd.

Dr. CHOU Loke Ming is Emeritus Professor at the National University of Singapore (Department of Biological Sciences). He obtained his PhD in Zoology from the University of Singapore in 1976. His research on coral reef ecology and integrated coastal management covers Southeast Asia. His current research focus is reef restoration, and he is particularly interested in how corals can be re-established in the highly turbid conditions of rapidly developing coastal areas. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Biology and a Fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science.

Dr. Lu has been working for nature conservation for 20 years and is specialized in wetland ecology and biodiversity conservation. He is involved in various conservation and management associated initiatives at both national and international level, including the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, EAAFP, IUCN, GEO BON, and UNESCAP and NEASPEC projects. His main research interests are wetland ecosystem change and drivers, biodiversity dynamics and conservation biology, endangered migratory waterbirds and habitat, and mechanisms for transboundary cooperation in the EAAF.