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Dr Amrita Malhi is Senior Adviser Geoeconomics at Save the Children Australia; and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Flinders University and The Australian National University. Amrita has researched and published extensively on anti-colonial politics in Southeast Asia, including in conditions of imperialist great power competition around the First and Second World Wars. She has also served as Development Economics Adviser at the Australian Council For International Development, as a Research Fellow at the University of South Australia, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Berkeley and Amsterdam funded by the Social Science Research Council, and as Project Coordinator for a bilateral community development project spearheaded by Rio Tinto in Indonesia.
Prof. Saleemul Huq is the Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) and Professor at the Independent University Bangladesh (IUB) as well as Associate of the International Institute on Environment and Development (IIED) in the United Kingdom. In addition he is a Senior Adviser on Locally Led Adaptation with Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA).
He is an expert in adaptation to climate change in the most vulnerable developing countries and has been a lead author of assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has published hundreds of scientific as well as popular articles on climate change, adaptation and resilience, and was recognized as one of the top twenty global influencers on climate change policy in 2019 and top scientist from Bangladesh on climate change science.
Ridhima Pandey is a student and climate activist from Dehradun, Uttarakhand India. She been noted on BBC’s 100 most empowering and influencing women's list 2020. Ridhima was among the 16 child petitioners who filed a complaint with the United Nations to protect lack of government action on the climate change crisis at the UN Climate Action Summit 2019 held in New York.
At age 9, Ridhima filed a petition before the “National Green Tribunal” in India to raise issue on the environment pollution and failed to take appropriate action on climate change and how environment protection laws continue to be routinely flouted. Ridhima, together with 14 other children from across the world, filed a complaint against Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, and Turkey, who the activists believe are causing the most pollution. Ridhima is 15 years old.
Dr. Yanghee Lee is most noted for her work in international human rights organisations. Lee is highly recognized nationally, regionally, and internationally for her expertise in human rights. She has published numerous articles and books on human rights and children’s rights. Yanghee Lee currently serves on the Advisory committee of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea. She is the founding President of the International Child Rights Center, a non-profit organization based in Seoul.
In 2009, she received the Order of Civil Merit, the highest recognition given to a civilian in Korea, for her work in human rights. Lee served as chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, a body monitoring State obligation to comply with the Convention on the Rights of the Child from 2007 to 2011. She also served as chairperson of the Meeting of Chairpersons of Human Rights Treaty Bodies from 2010 to 2011. From 2014 - 2020, Dr. Lee served as the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation of Myanmar. In 2021, she co-founded the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M) with former members of the Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar.