Dr Hamza Hamouchene is a London-based Algerian researcher-activist, commentator and a founding member of Algeria Solidarity Campaign (ASC), Environmental Justice North Africa (EJNA) and the North African Food Sovereignty Network (Siyada). He is currently the Arab region Programme Coordinator at the Transnational Institute (TNI). His work is focused on issues of extractivism, resources, land and food sovereignty as well as climate, environmental, and energy justice in the Arab region. He is the author/editor of four books: Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region (2023), The Arab Uprisings: A Decade of Struggles (2022), The Struggle for Energy Democracy in the Maghreb (2017) and The Coming Revolution to North Africa: The Struggle for Climate Justice (2015).

Lebohang Liepollo Pheko has over 25 years experience working at the intersection of movement building and activist scholarship. She is respected as an activist scholar, public intellectual, political economist, international movement builder and Decolonial Afrikan(ist) feminist theoretician. She is also a fellow of the Africans Futures Lab and a member of the Well Being Global Alliance on Economics. She was a founding faculty member of the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute. Among her areas of writing and research include international trade and international economics in the context of South/North relations, political economy, regional integration of Afrikan states, feminist and well-being economics, international development, international relations in relation to Afrikan positionality.