Kirsty is the Executive Director of the Environment Centre NT, and is an advocate, researcher and strategist with 25 years experience. She has been based in the Northern Territory for over two decades, where she worked for a number of years as a native title and environmental lawyer for an Aboriginal land council, where she negotiated resource agreements, conducted native title and land claims, and ran strategic litigation. In 2020, she completed her doctorate analysing the intersection of the state, the environment, Indigenous institutions and extractive development in northern Australia, and she has published widely in these areas. Kirsty is an adjunct research fellow at Charles Darwin University, and a Councillor of the Australian Conservation Foundation. She is committed to ensuring the continued flourishing of the worldclass landscapes and communities of Australia's Great North.

Dylan is originally from the south-east of South Australia. He completed his PhD in hydrogeology at Flinders University in 2014, and has worked at Charles Darwin University since 2021. Describing himself as a ‘recovering groundwater modeller’, his research spans the topics of groundwater recharge estimation, river-aquifer interactions, groundwater-dependent vegetation, remote sensing, ‘big data’ approaches, and climate change impacts on water resources.

Andrew was appointed as the independent Controller of Water Resources in the Northern Territory in May 2023. He has extensive State, National and International experience in environmental, natural resources and water resources management. He has been involved in major policy reform in the Murray Darling Basin, Lake Eyre Basin and South Australia including the establishment of NRM Boards across the state. Prior to his retirement from the SA Government in 2015 he was Group Executive Director in Primary Industries and Regions SA with responsibility for SA Research and Development Institute, Biosecurity SA, Rural Solutions SA and the SA River Murray Sustainability Initiative. Andrew was awarded a Public Service Medal in 2012 for services in environmental and natural resources management. He was the South Australian Water Industry Alliance’s “Industry Leader of the Year” in 2017 based on his many years of experience and leadership in water and environmental management. His extensive international experience includes working with senior Government Officials in Nepal to develop its national water policy and legislation.

Marianna works on investments and tech in energy, transport, mining and manufacturing that will prosper in the 2050 Australian economy. Marianna is a company director with governance roles across the public and not-for-profit sector including with the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (clean-tech enabler) and the McKell Institute (think tank). With a passion for gender equality, she is also a Chief Executive Women (CEW) committee member and a founding committee member of an organisation to promote gender equality in politics. In 2018, Marianna co-founded the McKell Institute in Queensland which promotes public dialogue around key policy challenges in areas such as housing, early childhood education, superannuation, productivity, and energy. Earlier in her career she worked at the World Bank in Washington, then as an adviser to the Prime Minister in Canberra and with green investment bank, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.