Liz Fisher is Professor of Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. She is author of many books and articles on environmental law and administrative law including Risk Regulation and Administrative Constitutionalism (2007) and Administrative Competence: Reimagining Administrative Law (2020)(with Sid Shapiro) which both won awards. She was General Editor of the Journal of Environmental Law 2012-22. She is currently working on a three year research project on legal imagination and environmental problems.

Louis Kotzé is Research Professor of Law at North-West University, South Africa, and Senior Professorial Fellow in Earth System Law at the University of Lincoln. His research focuses on law and the Anthropocene, global environmental constitutionalism, and earth system law. A former Klaus Töpfer Sustainability Fellow at the Research Institute for Sustainability Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, he is the current Programme Chair of The New Institute’s Future of Democracy Programme.

Josephine van Zeben is Professor and Chair of the LAW group at Wageningen University (WUR, the Netherlands). She is also a visiting professor at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), co-editor-in-chief of Transnational Environmental Law, and board member of several associations, such as the Society for Environmental Law and Economics. Her research focusses on the regulation of environmental issues by public and private actors across jurisdictions, specifically through transnational environmental law, with particular attention for polycentric governance theory, and developments related to the European Union. She is research lead of the LAW Group's program "Law for the Living Environment". Her research also draws on her teaching of law to non-law students and lawyers from foreign jurisdictions by actively searching for optimal ways of analysing complex legal and societal problems so as to facilitate interdisciplinary solutions.

Professor Kari Kuusiniemi is President of the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland since September 2018. Previously, he served as Justice and Vice-President of the Court since 1999. Prior to his career in the judiciary, he was Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Turku. His previous academic posts include i.a. acting Professor of Law, and Lecturer in Environmental Law at the Helsinki University of Technology, and Junior Research Fellow at the Academy of Finland. Kuusiniemi is Docent at four Finnish Universities. He was appointed Member of the Academy of Science and Letters in 2014. He is Member of the Board of the National Defence Course Association (2011), and Chairman of the Board since 2020. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, expert in the South-African Water Law review, and Member of ERA Board of Trustees. His publications include some 20 books and more than 200 articles, reviews, and case comments in the field of Environmental and Administrative Law.

Tessa is the founder and Executive Director of Uplift and an international climate change and human rights lawyer and campaigner. Before founding Uplift, she was co-founder and Co-Director of the Climate Litigation Network, a project of the Urgenda Foundation, which supports groundbreaking strategic climate litigation around the world. She has spent more than fifteen years supporting grassroots, regional and international movements for justice and has served as an expert advisor to UN human rights bodies and national governments, while working in Thailand, Egypt, India, the US, the Netherlands and Australia. Her writing has been published in international media outlets and academic publications, she is a regular commentator in UK and international media, and she has been invited to speak at the United Nations and events convened by The Economist, Wall Street Journal and TED. She is a graduate of the University of Oxford (BCL(Dist)) and University of Western Australia (LLB(Hons)/BA). In 2019, Tessa was named by TIME magazine as one of fifteen women leading the fight against climate change. She is also an awardee of the Climate Breakthrough Project.