Irene Pérez Ibarra is a researcher at the AgriFood Institute of Aragon, part of the University of Zaragoza in Spain. Her research focuses on the intersection of social and ecological systems as well as the governance of small-scale agricultural systems and their resilience to global climate change.

Amineh Ghorbani is an associate professor in the Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. She co-developed the Institutional Network Analysis, a framework for studying institutional interdependency as well as identifying institutional voids and points of conflict. She is also a proponent of institutional modelling, which involves applying agent-based and simulation modeling to study institutional behavior and dynamics. Her research interests center on collective action around climate change.

Tomás Olivier is an assistant professor in the School of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University. His work focuses on the governance of shared natural resources, and he is particularly interested in how groups of actors collaborate to address collective action problems.

Seth Frey is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at U.C. Davis. He uses data science to answer quantitative questions about human institutions, with a special interest in how online communities support self-governance and personal empowerment. Seth has published numerous articles on these topics and has participated in several interdisciplinary research and education projects . . .

Tanya Heikkila is the Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver’s School of Public Affairs. She researches and teaches policy processes and environmental governance with a focus on conflict and collaboration in the context of interstate watersheds, large-scale ecosystem restoration programs, and unconventional oil and gas development . . .

Claudio Radaelli is Professor of Comparative Public Policy at the European University Institute’s School of Transnational Governance (Florence). He is also a long-time IGRI affiliate. Professor Radaelli’s research interests include the policy process of the European Union, the effects of EU policies on the Member States, the theory of policy learning, and the roles and usages of expertise and ideas in public policy and administration . . .