Navitri Putri Guillaume is a PhD Candidate at the Political Science Department of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. While her main research interests are environmental politics, land conflicts and deforestation, she has been working on other issues including children right, land mine impacts on indigenous community, crisis prevention and recovery, and migrant detention.

Maev O'Collins taught at the University of Papua New Guinea from 1972-1989. She was appointed Professor of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology in 1979, received an MBE in the Papua New Guinea Honours List in 1987, and was awarded the title of Professor Emeritus by the University Council in 1989. Now living in Canberra, she is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Change at the Australian National University and an Adjunct Professor at the Canberra Campus of the Australian Catholic University. The focus of her current research is on social justice in a multicultural context, and Australia's relationship with Papua New Guinea and other South Pacific island nations and dependent territories. Her publications include Social Development in Papua New Guinea: 1972-1990: Searching for Solutions in a Changing World 1993, An Uneasy Relationship: Norfolk Island and the Commonwealth of Australi 2002 and 'What if they don't want your kind of development? Reflections on the Southern Highlands', in Conflict and Resource Development in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, edited by Nicole Haley and Ronald J. May, 2007.