Aditi Mukherji is a Principle Researcher at the International Water Management Institute and a coordinating lead author of the water chapter of the Working Group II report of the IPCC Sixth Assessment.  

She has over 21 years of experience working on policies and institutions of water resources management with a special focus on water-energy-food nexus. She has published over 50 peer reviewed papers. Aditi has served as a Permanent Consultative Committee member of GEF-FAO’s Groundwater Governance project hosted by FAO at Rome and is a Board member of an Indian research NGO called SACiWaters. 

She is the first ever recipient of the Borlaug Field Award (2012) endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation and given by the World Food Prize Foundation, USA. 

Aditi is a human geographer by training and has a PhD from Cambridge University, United Kingdom, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. 

Dr. Christopher Trisos directs the Climate Risk Lab  at the African Climate and Development Initiative, based at the University of Cape Town. The Climate Risk Lab integrates data and methods from environmental and social sciences to advance understanding of climate change risks to health, economies, food systems and ecosystems and to help inform more rapid, just and equitable responses to climate change. 

Dr. Trisos is a coordinating lead author for the chapter on Africa for Working Group-II of the IPCC 6th Assessment Report and is also a member of the core writing team for the overall IPCC Synthesis Report. He has consulted on climate change risk and adaptation options for the World Bank and other international development organisations. He is also the co-creator of a climate change choose-your-own adventure game called ‘Survive the Century‘. You can find him on twitter @christrisos.

Nicholas Harrison brings 20 years’ experience working across Europe and internationally on sustainable development and climate change governance and implementation.

Prior to joining C2G, Harrison served as an adviser on climate action in the Executive Office of the United Nations secretary-general, supporting delivery and ratification of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Before this, as a senior consultant at Ecofys, he coordinated global teams of experts delivering high-profile international research assessments and analysis on climate change, sustainable energy, and low emissions development

In previous roles, Harrison served as an adviser on climate change and strategic intelligence for the UK Department of International Development, Department of Communities and Local Government, and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. He began his career in environmental engineering, moving into communications to promote renewable energy technologies, followed by various roles in city, regional, and national government, improving the use of data and evidence to deliver more sustainable development.

Harrison has written and presented widely on climate change and sustainable development, served on the Sustainable Communities committee of the British Standards Institution (BSI) and worked extensively to promote integrated multi-level governance and the role of cities, states, and other non-state actors in climate action.

He holds an MSc in organisational psychology from City University, London, is a fellow of LEAD International and the Norfolk Charitable Trust, and is an independent expert for the Climate KIC, Europe’s largest public-private innovation partnership focused on climate innovation to mitigate and adapt to climate change.