Jagannath Ambagudia is Professor and Dean, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, and Deputy Director, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati Campus, Assam, India.
Ian G. Baird is a Professor, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States.
Ahmed Bendella is Amazigh, a researcher with the Global Diversity Foundation, and LADSIS Hassan II University of Casablanca.
Omaira Bolaños Cárdenas is Director, Latin America and Gender Justice Programs, Rights and Resources Initiative, Washington D. C., United States.
Ricardo Camilo Niño Izquierdo is Indigenous Arhuaco, and Coordinator for the Indigenous Secretariat of the National Commission of Indigenous Territories, (CNTI), Colombia.
Mari Carmen Romera is a researcher with the Anthropology and History of the Construction of Social and Political Identities (AHCISP) and Laboratori d’Anàlisi de Sistemes Socio-Ecològics en la Globalització (LASEG) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB).
Emily Caruso is a researcher with the Global Diversity Foundation.
Joel E. Correia is an Assistant Professor in the Human Dimensions of Natural Resources Department at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States.
Sandra Cortés Acosta is an Environmental Economist, EnviroStrat, Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Ugo D’Ambrosio is a researcher with the Global Diversity Foundation.
Daniel Diamond is a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation and an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba, Canada.
Pablo Dominguez is a researcher with GEODE/Éco-anthropologie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the Global Diversity Foundation and the Anthropology and History of the Construction of Social and Political Identities (AHCISP) and Laboratori d’Anàlisi de Sistemes Socio-Ecològics en la Globalització (LASEG) Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB).
Fernanda Frizzo Bragato is a Professor of Law, Universidade do Vale do Rios do Sinos (Unisinos) Law School, Brazil.
Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum is a Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, United States.
Marcos Glauser is a researcher with Tierraviva and PRONII-CONACYT, Paraguay.
Robert K. Hitchcock is a Professor, University of New Mexico, Alberquque. United States.
Carwyn Jones is Ngāti Kahungunu and Pūkenga Matua (Head Lecturer) for the Ahunga Tikanga Programme (Māori Laws and Philosophy) at the Te Wānanga o Raukawa, Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Lassana Koné is a lawyer with the Forest Peoples Programme, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
Oula-Antti Labba is Sámi from Eanodat / Enontekiö, Sápmi, and currently works in the Ministry of Justice, Finland.
Soufiane M’Sou is Amazigh and a researcher with the Global Diversity Foundation.
Francis Markham is a Research Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) at the Australian National University.
Gary Martin is a researcher with the Global Diversity Foundation.
Smith Moeti is G//ana San from Metsiamong and a member of the Central Kalahari Residents Committee.
William Nikolakis is an Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada.
Heidi Norman is a member of the Gomeroi Nation and Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii) is a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation, and the Prichard Wilson Chair in Law & Public Policy, and Decanal Advisor on Indigenous Issues, University of Toronto, Canada.
Maria Sapignoli is an Associate Professor, University of Milan, Italy.
Yogeswaran Subramaniam is Advocate and Solicitor, Associate Member, Centre for Malaysian Indigenous Studies, University of Malaya, Malaysia.
Alexandra Tomaselli is a senior researcher at the Institute for Minority Rights of the European Academy of Bozen-Bolzano, Eurac Research, Italy.
Rodrigo Villagra-Carron is a Professor, Federal University of Latin American Integration, Brazil, and researcher associated with Tierraviva.
Robert A. Williams Jr. Member of the Lumbee Tribe, North Carolina is the Regents Professor, E. Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Chair of the University of Arizona Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, United States.
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