Steve is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Fenner School of Environment & Society, at the Australian National University, working in resilience and sustainability science. His research involves a broad range of intensive interdisciplinary collaborations on topics including water resources, Earth system science, corporate and financial sustainability, climate change, biodiversity loss, fisheries, poverty and agriculture. He takes a complex systems approach to resilience and sustainability, integrating mathematical methods and concepts with disciplinary knowledge and approaches. Steve is also a Centre Associate at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and a Commissioner at the Earth Commission convened by Future Earth.

Kendra is a Research Fellow at the Fenner School of Environment and Society of the Australian National University, and holds an appointment as Associate Professor at the Dept. of Environmental Science of the Ateneo de Manila University. She serves on the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Programme and the extended secretariat of the Earth Commission. Kendra has broad interests in sustainability, climate and disaster resilience, earth system science, and in relevant applications of systems thinking and system dynamics modeling. 

Caroline is a Research Fellow at the Australian National University, working in natural resource management, anticipatory planning, resilience and sustainability science. She has a multi-disciplinary background in molecular biology, environmental sciences and integrated water management, and recently completed her PhD, focusing on methods and tools to build capability for long-term and adaptive water planning. Driven by a passion for justice in decision-making, Caroline is dedicated to developing practical approach that prioritise people and the Environment, fostering sustainable outcomes and improved livelihoods.

Aryanie is a climate and environmental policy specialist currently undertaking research on corporate and financial sector sustainability as a PhD candidate at the ANU Fenner School of Environment & Society. Her research aims to critically assess and advance corporate sustainability action especially how they align with global environmental limits and targets, particularly the Planetary and Earth System boundaries. In doing so, she analyses existing standards and ratings and applies the novel Earth System Impact score tool to case studies in the agrifood sector.

Her research will be informed by her experience in climate and environment advisory and program management with the UN, development agencies, consulting, and think-tanks. She holds a master’s degree in international cooperation and development from the University of Pavia (Italy) and a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering from the Bandung Institute of Technology (Indonesia).

Vitor is a PhD student at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University (ANU). His research focuses on developing models of socio-ecological systems. By taking an interdisciplinary approach, he integrates computational and mathematical tools with social and biological knowledge to address environmental challenges. In his PhD, Vitor is developing the concept of resilience as pathway diversity to operationalize resilience and support decision-making in water management. Before joining ANU, he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and a Master’s degree in Complex Systems Modeling from the University of São Paulo, Brazil.