Beau is the Natural Resource Officer – Climate Change and Climate Finance – for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. Over the past 19 years Beau has worked as a natural resource management specialist focused on promoting equitable, climate resilient and low emissions development.

Firuz Ibrohimov holds a BSc. in Agriculture, an MSc. in Land Management, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Science. He is an expert in natural resource management with over 20 years of practical experience in various domains, such as forest, pasture, and protected areas management, policy and planning, sustainable use, and natural resource governance. His main research interest is in community-based natural resource management and sustainable use under climate change scenarios. He has led several legal drafting initiatives at different scales, from national to regional and international.

Nuzhat Nueary is a mid-career development professional who has spent the last six years advocating for the rights of climate-affected women and youth. She is currently employed by Oxfam, an organization dedicated to fighting poverty and inequality. In line with her organization's mission, she like to alleviate poverty in climate-affected communities through advocacy and movement building.

Nueary academic specialization is in development studies and natural resource management, which complements my mission to bring justice to Bangladesh's climate-vulnerable women and youth.

Robert Steele is Founder and Director of Systainability Asia (www.systainabilityasia.com), a Thailand based consultancy that works closely with national governments, NGOs, international agencies, private sector companies and education institutionsin the Asia-Pacific region to find solutions to sustainability challenges. Robert has a BSc. in geology and MSc. in natural resource management.