Prof. Manjula Ranagalage is a professor in environmental management at the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka. He has more than 17 years of experience as a GIS and Remote sensing specialist in South Asia. He has completed over 50 Geoinformatics-related research and published them in high-impact journals. His research expertise spans various critical areas, including land use and Landcover changes, forest cover change, urban sustainability, urban geography, urban climate change, urban green volume and built-up volume, urban heat island, and GIS and remote sensing applications for water resources management, disaster management, environment management, tsunami vertical evacuation, and soil erosion management. Prof. Ranagalage conducted his research not only in Sri Lanka but also in some Asian countries such as India, China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, and some countries in the African Regions.

Ranjitha Puskur leads the research program on ‘Gender and Livelihoods' at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and is IRRI’s Representative to India. She has been with the CGIAR since 2002, working at theInternational Water Management Institute (IWMI),International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), WorldFish and IRRI. Her work focuses on generating knowledge, learning and evidence that can translate into technical and institutional innovation and lead to more equitable outcomes for women and other vulnerable social groups engaged in agriculture.She also the leads the Evidence Module in the CGIAR GENDER (Generating Evidence and New Directions forEquitable Results) Platform. The Evidence Module of theGENDER Platform aims to deliver new evidence to fill key gaps in the gender and food systems domain to inform research, development practice and policy to facilitate design and implementation of solutions and trajectories to reduce gender inequalities.In her role as IRRI’s Representative to India, she engages with government, non-government, civil society, private sector and, investors to garner support for IRRI’s R4D program and policy engagement in India, to contribute to agricultural sector development. Ranjitha is an alumna of IARI from the Ag EconomicsDivision and won the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for outstanding doctoral thesis.

Dr. Carly Muir is a Geospatial Analyst at the AidData lab in the Global Research Institute of William & Mary. She is formally trained in the field of Geography and specializes in climatology and land system science, with a specific focus on investigating dynamics of human-environment interaction and climate change. Her research is interdisciplinary and uses spatial analyses to examine sustainable agricultural land use. She has conducted field work in several African nations, including her dissertation work, which focused on evaluating large scale land acquisitions in Ethiopia. The overarching goal of her work is to employ geospatial techniques for improving synergies between agricultural production and ecological sustainability. Previously, she was a graduate instructor at the University of Florida where she taught classes in geography, sustainability, and geographic information systems.

Dr. Kunwar Singh is a Senior Geospatial Scientist at the AidData research lab and an Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Geospatial Analysis at William & Mary. Kunwar has more than 20 years of experience in remote sensing data acquisition, processing, and analysis, including the applications of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and drones to measure, map, and model land characteristics and resources. His research is at the nexus of land change and geospatial sciences where he investigates how the terrestrial system can support future land conversions and resource consumption under a changing climate. He uses geospatial data and technologies supplemented with data from ground observations and weather stations to develop workflows for large spatiotemporal data processing, assess broad-scale land change and its implications to natural resources, and measure outcomes of new adaptations to diminishing natural resources