Dr Javier Arellano-Yanguas (Vice-Rector for Research and International Relations, University of Deusto)

Francisco Javier Arellano Yanguas is Vice-Rector for Research and International Relations at the University of Deusto, Bilbao. His professional career is marked by the combination of direct work as a practitioner in the field of development and interest in making a rigorous contribution to the field through empirically grounded, interdisciplinary, and applied research. He has an interdisciplinary academic background with degrees in development studies, agronomy, and philosophy and religion studies, as well as many years’ experience of development work with both overseas and Spanish based NGOs, including three years working with indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest and twelve years as Director of the Spanish organisation, ALBOAN. His current research is on the interaction of local governments, mining companies and social movements at the local level in the Peruvian context. His approach highlights the importance of bridging bottom-up and institutional perspectives, emphasising that many of the development ideas and policies to answer huge global challenges will come from below.

Professor Emmanuel Katongole (Professor of Theology and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame)

Emmanuel Katongole is Professor of Theology and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He holds a joint appointment with the Keough School of Global Affairs, where he serves as a full-time faculty of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Before joining the University of Notre Dame (Jan 2013), he served as Associate Professor of Theology and World Christianity at Duke University, and as founding co-director of the Duke Center for Reconciliation.  The author of several books concerning the intersection of Africa, the environment, and reconciliation, Katongole is co-founder and President of Bethany Land Institute, Luweero, which provides Uganda's rural poor with an integrated education program in sustainable land use, economic entrepreneurship, and spiritual formation. He is a Catholic priest of Kampala Archdiocese, Uganda where he was ordained in 1987.

Dr Christiana Zenner (Associate Professor of Theology, Science and Ethics, Fordham University)

Christiana Zenner is Associate Professor of Theology, Science and Ethics in the Department of Theology at Fordham University, where she is affiliated faculty in Environmental Studies and American Studies. Her research into emerging and established fresh water ethics intersects with ecological theory, religious ecologies, developments in the earth sciences, and the ecological turn in Catholic social teaching. She lectures nationally and internationally on these topics and has provided analysis of contemporary topics in ecological ethics and religion and science in venues such as Public Radio International, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The New Republic, the Washington Post, TED-Ed, MSNBC, and others. Publications include numerous peer-reviewed articles, two co-edited volumes on sustainability and bioethics, and the monograph Just Water: Theology, Ethics, and Global Fresh Water Crises (second edition, Orbis Books, 2018; first edition, 2014).

Denise Humphreys Bebbington is Research Associate Professor in the Department of International Development, Community and Environment at Clark University in Massachusetts, Worcester, MA (USA). She is an affiliate faculty member of the Women's and Gender Studies Program and faculty convener of a new earth conversation at Clark. Her research has explored the political ecology of natural gas in Bolivia and the implications of the gas economy for both Indigenous peoples and regional societies; the dynamics of socio-environmental conflict and mobilization linked to natural resource extraction and large-scale infrastructure investments; and the relationship between gender, environment and development, specifically how women gain access to and control over natural resources. Prior to her academic research, she served as Representative to Peru for the Inter-American Foundation (IAF), South American Regional Sub-Director for Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and Latin America Program Coordinator for the Global Greengrants Fund (GGF). She is co-author of Governing Extractive Industries: Politics, Histories, Ideas (2018) and Evaluacian y Alcance de la Industria Extractiva y la Infraestructura en Relacidn con la Deforestación: Amazonia (2019).

Sharon A. Bong is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University Sunway City, Malaysia. She graduated with a PhD in religious studies (2002) and MA in women and religion (1997), University of Lancaster, UK. She has authored Becoming Queer and Religious in Malaysia and Singapore (2020) and The Tension between Women's Rights and Religions: The Case of Malaysia (2006) and co-edited Gender and Sexuality Justice in Asia (2020), Trauma, Memory and Transformation in Southeast Asia(2014) and Re-imagining Marriage and Family in Asia: Asian Christian Women's Perspectives (2008). She is former coordinator and consultant to the Ecclesia of Women in Asia and a forum writer for the Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church.

Lisa Sowle Cahill is the J. Donald Monan, S.J., Professor, Boston College (Massachusetts, USA). Dr Cahill is a past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America (1992-3) and the Society of Christian Ethics (1997-8). She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She received her MA and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago Divinity School. Her works include 'Blessed Are the Peacemakers': Pacifism, Just War and Peacebuilding (2019), A Theology and Praxis of Gender Equality (2018), Global Justice, Christology and Christian Ethics (2013) and Theological Bioethics: Justice, Participation, and Change (2005). Ethics in Apocalyptic Times: Realistic Hope and Christian Politics is in progress. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Religious Ethics; the Journal of Catholic Social Thought; Theology; the Irish Theological Quarterly; Asian Horizons and Mellita Theologica (University of Malta).

Sierra Cloud is a graduate of Fort Valley State University (Georgia, USA). She has interned at the University of Pittsburgh in the Particle Based Functional Material Research Experience. Her research interests are in sustainability and water justice.

Celia Deane-Drummond is Director of the Laudato Si' Research Institute (LSRI) and Senior Research Fellow in Theology, Campion Hall at the University of Oxford (Great Britain). After beginning her academic career in natural sciences with a focus on plant physiology and agricultural botany, Dr Deane-Drummond retrained in theology, education and environmental ethics. She has a PhD in plant physiology  from the University of Reading and a PhD in systematic theology from the University of Manchester. As Director of LSRI, she leads its multidisciplinary research work and develops and fosters its collaborative partnerships and projects with the church and other allied organizations. She is also responsible for LSRI’s strategic growth plan and promoting its education and outreach work nationally and internationally. Her main research interests are in theological and ethical engagement with the natural and social sciences on questions related to ecology, genetics, animal studies and anthropology. She was Chair of the European Forum for the Study of Religion and Environment and is currently Vice President of the Science and Religion Forum of Great Britain, a trustee of the International Society for Science and Religion and a visiting Professor in 'Theology and Science at the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University. Her publications include The Wisdom of the Liminal: Human Nature, Evolution and Other Animals (2014); Technofutures, Nature and the Sacred, ed. with Sigurd Bergmann and Bronislaw Szerszynski (2015); Ecology in Jurgen Moltmann's Theology, 2nd edition (2016); Religion in the Anthropocene, ed. with Sigurd Bergmann and Markus Vogt (2017); Theology and Ecology across the Disciplines: On Care for Our Common Home, ed. with Rebecca Artinian Kaiser (T&T Clark, Bloomsbury, 2018); The Evolution of Wisdom Volume I: Theological Ethics through a Multispecies Lens (2019) and Shadow Sophia: Evolution of Wisdom Volume 2 (2021).

Josianne Gauthier is a Canadian lawyer with over twenty years of experience in international development and solidarity, focusing on human rights, children's rights, social justice and faith-inspired advocacy work. She joined Coopération Internationale pour k Développement et la Solidarité (CIDSE), an umbrella organization for Catholic development agencies from Europe and North America, as Secretary General in 2017. Before this, she led the Public Engagement, Advocacy and Campaigns teams at Development and Peace - Caritas Canada, the Canadian member of CIDSE, working on an array of international development and policy issues. Her work at CIDSE includes involvement in networks and actions focusing on climate justice, systemic change, and promoting sustainable lifestyles. A mother of three young children, she is also passionate about engaging and forming youth on issues of social justice and integral ecology and communicating about personal commitment and just relationships to broad audiences. In October 2019, she participated in the Synod on the Pan Amazon Region in Rome on behalf of CIDSE.

Marion Grau is Professor of Systematic Theology, Ecumenism and Missiology at the MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion, and Society (Oslo, Norway). Her teaching interests are in constructive theology and critical intersectional theories. Her current research projects include a constructive theology of energy transitions and climate change. She is the author of Pilgrimage, Landscape, and Identity: Reconstructing Sacred Geographies in Norway (2021), Refiguring Theological Hermeneutics: Hermes, Trickster, Fool (2014), Rethinking Mission in the Postcolony: Salvation, Society, and Subversion (T&T Clark/Continuum, 2011) and Of Divine Economy: Refinancing Redemption (T&T Clark/Continuum, 2004).

Linda Hogan is Professor of Ecumenics, Head of School and Director of the Irish School of Ecumenics at the Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). As an ethicist and ecumenist, Dr Hogan has published extensively on religion, gender and human rights. She is the founder of Trinity's College's Ethics Lab, where she helps resolve the ethical challenges encountered by academic and industry partners in the social sciences, life and data sciences and health. Dr Hogan served as vice-provost/chief academic officer and deputy president of Trinity College Dublin. She also serves as Chair of the Board of the Marino Institute of Education and as board member for the Coombe Women & Infants University Hospital, the Irish Council for Bioethics, and Science Gallery. She is an elected member of the International Women's Forum. Among her publications are From Women's Experience to Feminist Theology (1998), Confronting the Truth: Conscience in the Catholic Tradition(2000), Keeping Faith with Human Rights, Moral Traditions Series (2015), Nigel Biggar and Linda Hogan (eds) Religious Voices in Public Places (2009), Linda Hogan and Dylan Lee Lehrke (eds) Religion and the Politics of Peace and Conflict (2009) and Linda Hogan and A. E Orabator (eds) Feminist Catholic Theological Ethics: Conversations in the World Church (2014).

Felicia Jefferson is Associate Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her work, funded by multiple federal grants, has appeared in top science journals, including a recent publication in the Frontiers in Computer Science. Her other recent publications include work that used CRISPR-Cas9 technology and an investigation of cognitive decline in patients. Dr Jefferson served as an invited speaker of the 475th meeting of the National Science Board, which advises US Congress and the president, to discuss issues of diversity in academic STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine). She was also the lead author for a publication by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine and presented the study's preliminary results publicly to the National Academies. She is a delegate to National CDEI under ASEE's board of directors and served as the workshop/special session organizing chair for the Brain Informatics' 11th International Conference.

Catherine Keller is George T Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology in the Graduate Division of Religion of Drew University (Madison, New Jersey, USA). Her work on theology covers a spectrum of dimensions: ecofeminist, process, pluralist, political and philosophical. Her books include From Broken Web: Separation, Sexism and Self (1986), Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public (2018) and Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy and Other Last Chances (2021). She is the co-editor of Postcolonial Theologies (2012), Common Good/s: Ecology, Economy and Political Theology (2015) and Entangled Worlds: Religion, Science and the New Materialism (2017). She holds a PhD in the philosophy of religion and theology from Claremont Graduate School.

H. Kailean Khongsai works in creation care in West London for the environmental ministry A Rocha UK. He is a Church Mission Society, Oxford mission partner. His initial role was in outreach, building bridges among different faith backgrounds and using environmental projects to inspire and teach people to care for the environment. Currently he manages the community side of A Rocha UK through project management, coordinating events and volunteers. He was the pioneer in transforming a three-acre area of derelict land into a beautiful multipurpose green space for people and wildlife in Southall, West London. Originally from Manipur, North-East India, Kailean has an MSc in ecology and an MSc in environmental waste management.

Hilda P. Koster is the Sisters of St. Joseph of Toronto Associate Professor of Ecological Theology and the Director of the Elliott Allen Institute for Theology and Ecology m the Regis St Michael's Faculty of Theology in the University of Toronto (Canada). A native of the Netherlands, she holds a BA and MDiv from. the University of Groningen, a ThM from Princeton Theological Seminary and earned her doctorate from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. Dr Koster's publications on theology, eco-feminism and environmental ethics have appeared in Theology Today, Modern Theology, The Journal of Religion, The Anglican Theological Review and Scriptura. Among her book-length co-edited/authored publications are The Gift of Theology: The Contribution of Kathryn Tanner (2015), Planetary Solidarity: Global Women's Voices on Christian Doctrine and Climate Justice (2017) and the T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Theology and climate Change (Bloomsbury, 2019). Dr Koster is the co-editor of the T&T Clark book series Explorations in Theology, Gender, and Ecology (Bloomsbury).

Marianna Leite is an international human rights lawyer, researcher, activist and specialist in gender and development, currently affiliated with the University of Coimbra (Portugal). Over the past few years, she has been primarily concerned with gender, business and human rights. This work is very much linked to a robust analysis of structural systems such as (neo)colonialism, patriarchy and neoliberalism. Until December 2020, she was Women’s Rights Strategic Advisor at Christian Aid. Prior to that, she was Christian Aid’s Global Lead on Gender and Inequality, working on the development of holistic approaches to gender and intersecting inequalities that ensure equality of outcomes and rights for all.

Kuzipa Nalwamba serves at the World Council of Churches (WCC) as programme director for Unity, Mission and Ecumenical Formation (Geneva, Switzerland). A theologian and educator by training, Dr Nalwamba earned her doctorate at the University of Pretoria (South Africa). Her research was at the intersection of Christian tradition, science and African world views and cosmologies as resources for eco-theology and eco-ethics. Dr Nalwamba was a high school teacher and served in student ministry. She became the first woman general secretary of the Zambia Fellowship of Evangelical Students (ZAFES) and later associate regional secretary and publishing secretary at the Africa region of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES). A retired ordained minister of the United Church of Zambia (UCZ), she was congregation minister, school chaplain and lecturer at the UCZ Theological College (Kitwe, Zambia), where she was academic dean. Before joining WCC, she worked at the Council for World Mission (CWM).

Deborah Delgado Pugley is Principal Researcher and Assistant Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru/Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Lima, Peru). She has extensive experience in environmental governance and climate policy, particularly regarding Indigenous peoples and tropical forests. Dr Delgado Pugley has conducted interdisciplinary research and extended fieldwork following Indigenous social movements, human and environmental rights, and natural resources management. She has considerable field experience in the Amazon regions of Bolivia and Peru, where she has led research teams on climate change, Indigenous movements, human rights, natural resource management, forestry development and gender.

Oliver Putz is Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam (Germany), where he studies the role of religion in a global societal transformation towards more just, equitable and sustainable futures. Before coming to the IASS, he was Assistant Professor of Theology and Science at Santa Clara University in California. Dr Putz holds a PhD in biology from the Freie Universitat Berlin (Germany) and a PhD in theology from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. Aside from the role of religion in the Anthropocene, he has conducted research on animal theology, theological anthropology and suffering as a challenge for a contemporary theodicy.

Rheygan Reed is a Neuroscience Bioengineering and Sleep Lab Manager at Fort Valley State University (Georgia, USA) and a graduate student in the Public Health Degree Program at the University of Nevada, Reno (Nevada, USA). She has co-authored multiple research papers on the effects of sleep deprivation on public safety.

Tebaldo Vinciguerra serves the Holy See, initially with the Pontifical court for Justice and Peace and currently as an official of the Dicastery for Promotion of Integral Human Development, created by Pope Francis. He works on environmental issues - chiefly mining, energy, agriculture, water and oceans – in the light of Catholic Social Teaching and participates in many working groups and conferences, including major UN environmental summits and various working groups within the Catholic Church. Previously, he was a researcher on natural disasters at the Center for Strategic Studies of the Italian Ministry Defense and the coordinator of numerous development projects promoted by the Archdiocese of Lima (Peru). He completed university studies in political science and international studies at the Political Science Institute of Bordeaux (France) and the Faculty of Political Science of Turin (Italy). He co-founded the Italian NGO Puri di Cuore, promoting awareness about and recovery from the damage caused by pornography. Mr Vinciguerra is married and has three children.