Chair: Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla

Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla is a left-wing policy advisor from Hyderabad, India. She is co-general coordinator of Progressive International. Her work focuses on public policy in favour of internationalism. Previously, Varsha Gandikota worked on a reproductive justice campaign for Women Deliver in New York, was a policy officer for the Economic Development Board of the Government of Andhra Pradesh in India, and was a strategy consultant in Hong Kong. At Princeton University, she studied comparative political economy, critical theory and feminist politics, and graduated with a degree in international development. Her writing has appeared in Jacobin, Boston Review, Salon and Wire.

Binalakshmi Nepram

Binalakshmi Nepram is an Indigenous peacebuilder and scholar, fellow at the Asia Centre at Harvard, spearheading the women-led peace and disarmament movement. Bina co-founded India's first civil society organisation for conventional disarmament issues, Control Arms Foundation of India, as well as a Manipur Women Gun Survivor Network and the Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples, Gender Justice and Peace. Bina has received the Seán MacBride Peace Prize, the CNN IBN Real Heroes Award, and the Anna Politkovskaya Award. Action on Armed Violence listed Bina as one of the '100 most important people in the world working on Armed Violence Reduction'.

Vijay Prashad

Vijay Prashad (PhD) is an Indian historian and journalist. Prashad is the author of forty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. His latest book On Cuba. Reflections on 70 years of Revolution and Struggle (2024) was written with Noam Chomsky. He is executive director of Tricontinental: Institute of Social Research, and chief correspondent for Globetrotter. He is also the chief editor of LeftWord Books (New Delhi) and a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. He has appeared in two films - Shadow World (2016) and Two Meetings (2017).

Tori Tsui

Tori Tsui is a climate justice activist and writer from Hong Kong. Her debut book It’s Not Just You explores the intersections between the environmental and mental health crisis, it was shortlisted for the Wainwright prize. She is a Senior Advisor for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, Climate Justice Lead for Brian Eno’s Earth Percent and Campaigner with the Stop Rosebank coalition.

Professor David Whyte

David Whyte is Professor of Climate Justice at Queen Mary University of London where he is the Director of the Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice. His research focusses on the relationship between law and corporate power. He has researched the regulation of business in a wide range of contexts, including working conditions, institutional fraud and corruption, economies of war and conflict and ecological breakdown. His books include How Corrupt is Britain? (2015, Pluto Press), The Violence of Austerity (2017, Pluto Press) and Ecocide: kill the corporation before it kills us (2021, Manchester University Press).