Bereket Tsegay is Senior Researcher and Policy Analyst at the London based not-for-profit research institute the Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa (PENHA). He taught also as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and earned a PhD in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), the University of London working on the issue of Green Economy in Sub-Saharan Africa. His research has focused on policy analysis, natural resource governance, food security, pastoralism, dynamics of institutions in development, climate change resilience and green economy, risk management as well as social protection. Bereket has rich experience in both consultancy and programme management of the EU and UN-supported activities in the Horn of Africa region countries including Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somaliland, South Sudan and Sudan and Uganda.

Andrew is Lecturer in International Development, in the Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London. He is Programme Convenor for the MSc Environment, Politics and Development, in the Department of Development Studies, and the MSc Climate Change and Development, in the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy. He brings practical and theoretical insights from social anthropology and human geography to a research agenda which encompasses environment and development in Southern Africa and South America, with a particular focus on climate change adaptation and development.

I am a specialist in global commodity chains, sweatshop labour, global labour standards, CSR and ethical trade, labour unfreedom in garment factories and home-based settings, and on the political economy of India. I do also work on gender and globalisation and feminist and social reproduction approaches.

I am a recent graduate in Political Science from Loyola Marymount University, and will be starting a Master's degree in Public Policy at Sciences Po. I currently work at the Social and Human Sciences Unit at UNESCO Jakarta Office.