• Professor Ryan Plummer - Director of the Environmental Sustainability Research Centre (ESRC) Brock University, where his program of research concerns the governance of social-ecological systems.
• Assistant Professor Jessica Blythe - human geographer with research expertise in ocean governance, sustainable transformations and climate change adaptation.
• Professor Iain White - environmental planner whose interdisciplinary research explores institutional change with regard to new forms of spatial development and climate change adaptation.
• Associate Professor Daniel Henstra - political scientist who studies the governance of complex policy areas such as climate change adaptation, emergency management and flood risk management.

PhD Students

• Dr Miguel Frohlich - an environmental planner and lawyer whose research explores how legal frameworks for coastal management can influence the adoption of adaptive management.
• Dr Jonathan Raikes - applies his experience working on international disaster risk reduction strategies to investigate the intersection of governance for disaster risk reduction and sustainable development goals in Australia and Canada.
• Pippa Huddleston - an environmental planner who will draw on her practical experience in infrastructure planning to compare governance tools in coastal infrastructure retreat in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.
• Angela Mallette - applies her experience working in municipal climate change adaptation planning to explore opportunities for learning through Canadian and Australian case studies.