She is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Hamburg and an associated researcher to the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA). Her research focuses on contested international norms, more specifically on the rights of indigenous peoples in the context of conflicts over resources and land. Conceptually, she brings together norms research in International Relations, postcolonial perspectives, and critical (legal) anthropology. Her current interests is to understand and further conceptualize the politics of translation between different ontologies involved in resource conflicts. Her regional focus is on the Amazon rainforest, especially Peru.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Amazon Rainforest, Peru

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Professor Prakash C. Tiwari, Emeritus Professor of Geography at Kumaun University, Nainital, India, is a distinguished authority on Mountain Natural Resource Management and Climate Change Adaptation. He currently serves as Expert Consultant for the Hindu Kush Himalaya Spring Assessment Outlook at ICIMOD, Kathmandu, while also holding key international roles as Senior Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project (ESG) and Vice Chair of the IGU Commission on Cold and High-Altitude Regions (CHAR). With decades of pioneering research, Professor Tiwari has advanced interdisciplinary knowledge on climate resilience, adaptive resource management, and sustainable mountain development. His contributions as Lead Author of ICIMOD’s flagship HIMAP report have shaped regional climate policies across the Himalaya. He has successfully directed major collaborative projects funded by NASA, the European Union, USAID, AUSAID, SDC, NORAD, DFG, JSPS, DAAD, and other prestigious agencies. An internationally acclaimed scholar, he has held highly competitive fellowships, including the Mercator Fellowship (DFG), JSPS Invitation Fellowship (Japan), DAAD Guest Professorship (Germany), and Shastri Fellowships (Canada). He has also served as Visiting Professor at leading universities in the UK, Canada, Japan, Sweden, Austria, and Finland, and Visiting Scientist in Germany. His global academic engagements reflect his enduring commitment to advancing sustainable mountain futures.

Country/Region of interest/research focus:  High Mountains, Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH)

Silke Oldenburg is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is the PI of the research project “Space, Agency and Climate Change in a Contested Urban Landscape: Exploring Urban Environmental Futures in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia”, funded by the Leading House of the Latin American Region, Switzerland. She integrates critical urban theory approaches with political ecology and is passionate about the untold stories within environmental politics. Her recent ethnographic focus is on wetlands and the entanglements of race, ecology and socio-spatial inequalities in mangrove restoration in Cartagena de Indias, a city on the Colombian Caribbean coast.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Cartagena de Indias, Colombian Caribbean and Goma, Eastern DR Congo

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PhD student in Transdisciplinary Sustainability with a background in Agricultural Economics, Sustainable Development and Community Organizing as well as Fund Raising. Wrote and researched on Fast Fashion, then continued in the field of plastic bag usage, development of megacities that lead to more environmental degradation and economic gentrification that displaces people. Margaret Ojochide Aligbe is presently researching on the loss of marine biodiversity at the transdisciplinary level through the lens of methodological cosmopolitanism and ocean governance.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Europe, Africa and North America

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Researcher in the Research Group Bioeconomy and Inequalities. Transnational Entanglements and Interdependencies in the Bioenergy Sector at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Her current research in Argentina and Europe focuses on socio-ecological conflicts, green grabbing and strategies of social-ecological transformation. She draws on Political Ecology, post- and decolonial perspectives and transnational studies. Further research focuses are global social inequalities, development theory, health and social policies, gender and intersectionality and social movements. Her main research areas are in Latin America, recently mainly Argentina and Nicaragua.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Latin America, esp. Argentina and Nicaragua

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