Sahir Advani is a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver with a research focus in the Andaman and Nicobars Islands, India. He is exploring the influences of culture, history, and export markets on how small-scale fishing communities value marine resources.

Tom Horton is a post graduate research student at the University of Exeter

Maarten Bavinck is a professor in coastal governance at the University of Amsterdam and the UiT Arctic University of Norway, and director
of the Center for Maritime Research, University of Amsterdam

Joeri Scholtens is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam, working currently on the so-called Fish4Food project, which aims to understand obstacles for fisheries to support the food security of low-income populations.

Umeed Mistry is a dive instructor, underwater photographer, and cameraman, writer, and educator. He is driven by the desire to spark in others the same love he has for marine and freshwater spaces.

Aarthi Sridhar is Trustee and Programme Head, Dakshin Foundation and a doctoral candidate at the University of Amsterdam.

Shweta Basnett is a PhD student at ATREE and is interested in Evolutionary Biology. She is studying the flowering phenology of high altitude
Rhododendrons and its interaction with the pollinators.

Katie Badowski is a graduate student at Miami University studying biology with a focus in wildlife conservation. During her master’s
coursework she spent time in Sabah, Borneo working on communitybased conservation projects involving orangutans, reforestation, and
community education.

John Kurien is currently Visiting Professor at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. He has been associated with Cambodia’s community
fisheries initiative since 2005.

Dan Brockington directs the Sheffield Institute of International Development at the University of Sheffield. His research covers diverse aspects of conservation, agriculture development and celebrity entailing fieldwork in remote parts of East Africa and offices and events in central London.

Madhusudan Katti is Associate Professor for Leadership in Public Science in the Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. He studies how an evolutionary understanding of cities as social-ecological systems can help us reconcile nature and biodiversity conservation with human development.

Ritwick Dutta is an Environmental Lawyer and Managing Trustee, Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment.

Georgianne Griffiths is a community ecologist who studies invertebrates in all their wonderful diversity. She is interested in finding out about
the things insects do that help us humans, from eating the pests that attack our crops, to recycling nutrients for plant growth. She currently works in New Zealand and the UK.

Aparajita Datta leads NCF’s Eastern Himalaya programme, under which research and community-based conservation with hornbills as a
flagship has been carried out for 20 years. She has been a member of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and a member of
the State Wildlife Advisory Board of Arunachal Pradesh. She has evaluated and critiqued proposed dam projects in Arunachal. Her interests
include plant–animal interactions, understanding human impacts on wildlife, and engaging with tribal communities for conservation.

Katie Shanks studies the combination of optics and solar power to develop more efficient technology made from novel materials. This has led her into areas of biomimicry and building applicable designs for maximum impact. She has always been interested in the self-sustainability of renewable energy and enjoys the mixture of creative design and problem-solving that comes with this cutting-edge technology.

Andrew Szopa-Comley is a PhD researcher at the University of Bristol, working on personality and predatorprey relations in freshwater fish.

Emmanuelle Briolat has recently completed her PhD at the University of Exeter, researching the striking warning colours of burnet moths.

Prashanth M.B. is a Research Associate at ATREE, who has studied birds in humandominated landscapes and grassland-savannas;
apart from harriers, he has also worked on inventorying and mapping waterbirds with the help of citizen scientists. Prashanth has worked
with Dr. T. Ganesh, who has led the project on tracking harriers to understand migration patterns and identifying key habitats.

Farzeen Kapadia is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. She’s happiest when she is illustrating children’s books, and more recently, birds. If she’s not drawing, you will find her curled up with a book and a cup of tea.