Eric Zusman is a senior policy researcher/area leader at the Institute for Global Environmental Studies (IGES) in Hayama, Japan. Dr. Zusman holds a bachelors degree in Mandarin Chinese from Rutgers University, a dual Masters Degree in public policy and Asian studies from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. For much of the past two decades he has conducted research on environmental issues in Asia.

Sanjay Upadhyay, Advocate, Supreme Court of India, is the Founder and Managing Partner of the India’s first environmental law firm, Enviro Legal Defence Firm. Sanjay has been practicing environment and development law since 1993.

Matthew was called to the NSW Bar in 1991. He has been involved in the area of environmental law since 1987. Since 2010 he has worked in ASEAN, providing environmental legal advice on a range of environmental and social governance (ESG) matters. He has worked in most of the ASEAN countries providing advice on legislation and ESG and has worked with UN Environment, UNDP, ADB, IFC, WB, WWF, Vermont Law School and Earthrights International.

Ritwick Dutta is an Environmental Lawyer and Managing Trustee for Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE). He has focused exclusively on environmental litigation and has supported communities, civil society groups, and affected citizens in bringing environmental issues before the Court. His principal focus is the National Green Tribunal where he has served as the Secretary of the National Green Tribunal Bar Association.

Prof Dr. Dr. h.c. Antonio Herman Benjamin is a member of the National High Court of Brazil (STJ), Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law, and Secretary-General of the

United Nations Environment Programme International Advisory Council for Environmental Justice. He has published over 30 books and articles on environmental law.

Maria-Goreti Muavesi joined IUCN Oceania Regional Office (ORO) in 2013 where she oversees the implementation of ORO’s environmental law programme. She obtained her law degree from the University of the South Pacific in 2004 and was admitted to the Fiji High Court Bar in 2005. In 2018, she graduated from the University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia with a Master of Fisheries Policy.

Maria Cecilia T. Sicangco is a Climate Change Law and Policy Specialist/Knowledge Management Specialist (Consultant) under the Law and Policy Reform Program of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Her work includes environmental law, climate change law and policy, women’s legal literacy and access to justice in Islamic countries, gender sensitization, and energy and water sector regulation in Southeast Asia and small-island developing states in the Pacific.

Rosemary Lyster is the Professor of Climate and Environmental Law at the University of Sydney Law School and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. Rosemary’s special area of research expertise is Climate Justice and Disaster Law. She has published two books in this area: Rosemary Lyster and Robert M. Verchick (eds.) Climate Disaster Law (Edward Elgar: 2018) and Rosemary Lyster Climate Justice and Disaster Law (Cambridge University Press: 2015).