David R. Boyd is an environmental lawyer and internationally renowned expert on human rights and the environment. David served as the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment from 2018-2024. On July 28, 2022, the UN General Assembly recognised the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment for all people - a victory owed to civil society, youth activists, women and Indigenous peoples who fought for this right for 30 years, and to Boyd’s advocacy. He has presented more than 20 reports to the United Nations explaining that a healthy environment includes clean air, a safe climate, a healthy biosphere, sufficient access to safe water, healthy and sustainable food and a non-toxic environment. In his role as UN Special Rapporteur, he also filed amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs in 15 leading cases at the national, regional and global levels. Boyd is the author of ten books and over 150 articles on environmental and human rights issues.

Ana Lucía Maya-Aguirre is the Director and Co-Founder of the Center for Marine Justice. She is a lawyer with a diploma in constitutional law from the National University of Colombia, and she holds an LLM in Energy and Environmental Law from Tulane University with the support of the J. William Fulbright scholarship. She is part of the Marine Working Group of the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW). She was a visiting scholar of the Environmental Constitutionalism Program at the Global Scholar-in-Residence at Delaware Law School, Widener University. She was a fellow at ELAW. She has been a consultant at The Access Initiative of the World Resources Institute, Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) and the Swiss Foundation for Development Cooperation (Swissaid). She worked at the Environment and Society Association of Colombia. She coordinated the Right and Displacement Network, made up of 14 universities in Colombia with programs to address the internally displaced people by the armed conflict, a project implemented by the Latin American Institute for an Alternative Law and Society (ILSA) and supported by UNHCR and the Norwegian Refugee Council.

Jessica Newberry Le Vay is a Climate Change and Health Policy Fellow at the Climate Cares Centre, a collaboration between Imperial College London’s Institute of Global Health Innovation and the Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment. The Climate Cares Centre works to improve understanding and response to the interconnections between climate change and mental health. Jessica co-led the Wellcome-Funded Connecting Climate Minds Global Research and Action Agenda for climate change and mental health. This effort convened 1000 experts in 90+ countries, and developed research and action agendas in every Sustainable Development Goal region and globally with young people, Indigenous communities and small farmers and fisher peoples. Jessica is Research Theme Lead for Women’s Health and the Environment for Imperial’s Women’s Health Network. Previously, Jessica led Cancer Research UK's policy research programme on cancer prevention.

Yann is a research fellow at Utrecht University working on quantifying what are fair and ambitious mitigation contributions from state and non-state actors to align with the Paris Agreement mitigation goals. He holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne focused on quantifying equitable mitigation scenarios for all countries to meet the Paris Agreement goals. His results, published in Science, Nature Climate Change and Nature Communications, and are used in IPCC and UNEP reports, court cases, by diplomats at UN climate negotiations and by national and subnational governments to set their emissions targets.

Mayuri Anupindi is the Global Advocacy Strategist at the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC), which strives to advance human rights through grassroots collaborations. She is an international human rights and criminal lawyer from Australia. She has investigated and prosecuted atrocity crimes in South-East Asia on behalf of the UN, advised the Australian government on international human rights law and international crime cooperation, and worked with human rights defenders around the world. Prior to joining UUSC, she co-taught the international human rights clinic at Stanford Law School.

Joshua Cooper balances academia and advocacy, focusing on international human rights law through diplomacy and direct action. He is able to persuade passionately and pressure persistently in global human rights mechanisms with intensity and intellect. Cooper is an educator with over a decade of experience teaching at numerous higher education institutions in Hawaii and worldwide. He has developed curricula in over 40 courses in political science to focus on core themes of nonviolence, ecology, human rights and social justice. Cooper has taught over 100 classes at the University of Hawaii. He was the Dean of the International Human and Peoples Rights Law Program in Vienna, Austria. He participated in the drafting of UNDRIP.