Professor Bhaskar Vira is Professor of Political Economy and Head of the Department of Geography. He researches the political economy of environment and development. In particular, he asks how large-scale economic, societal and environmental transformations are governed; questions the values that frame how human societies engage with each other and with nature.

Until 2019, Bhaskar was Founding Director of the University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute. He remains closely involved with Cambridge’s Conservation Initiative, and Global Food Security Interdisciplinary Research Centre. He also works with the Centre for Science and Policy, Cambridge Zero, and the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

Professor Mike Hulme is Professor of Human Geography, and studies the cultural and epistemic construction of the idea of climate change. Before joining Cambridge in 2017, he was Professor of Climate and Culture and Head of Department at King's College London. Mike was the Founding Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, based at the University of East Anglia.

He led the preparation of several climate reports for the UK Government, and in 2007 the Nobel Peace Prize committee formally recognised his 'significant contribution' to the work of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.