Dr Michelle Lim is an Associate Professor in Law, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University. Her interdisciplinary scholarship occurs at the intersection between biodiversity conservation and sustainable livelihoods. Lim’s work focuses on futures-oriented biodiversity law research aimed at advancing equity and sustainability under conditions of unprecedented environmental change. She is increasingly interested in approaches which allows affective engagement with scholarship and explores ways which challenge the form of scholarship including through creative and imaginative means of expression (e.g. speculative fiction, poetry). Michelle was a fellow on the Global Assessment of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and an author of the IPBES/IPCC joint workshop report. She was awarded the 2021 Law Society of Australia New Zealand scholarly article publication prize for the paper: "Extinction: hidden in plain sight–Can stories of 'the last' unearth environmental law's unspeakable truth?" published in the Griffith Law Review. 

Professor Emmanuel B Kasimbazi is a Professor of Law at the School of Law, Makerere University.  He is an International Environmental Lawyer and a scholar with direct experience in international environmental law and policy-making.  His research ranges from legal analysis examining the interactions between international legal regimes in to empirically-based national case studies. His expertise on environment for the last 20 years is enriched by providing expert advice to United Nations agencies, International Financial institutions especially the World Bank and Africa development Bank and Regional Economic Commissions such as EAC, IGAD and SADC.  He is the Environmental Law Expert of the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds and an active member in the IUCN as a member of the Academy on Environmental Law and a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law.

He is a Fellow of the Uganda National Academy of Sciences, the African Academy of Sciences and the World Academy of Sciences.  He is a member of the Allard Law Agenda 2063 Project University of British Columbia, Canada. He has published in different legal aspects relating to environment, water, soils, mining, climate change, oil and gas, energy, wildlife, crimes, human rights, forests and health.