Professor Ian Lowe is an emeritus professor in the School of Science at Griffith University, an adjunct professor at two Australian universities and is the president of the Australian Conservation Foundation. His principal research interests are in policy decisions influencing the use of energy, science and technology and sustainable development.

Andy Merrifield is an independent scholar, urbanist and writer. He is the author of The Politics of Encounter, Magical Marxism, Dialectical Urbanism and Metromarxism, as well as numerous articles and essays on urbanism, art, literature and politics. His most recent book, The New Urban Question (2014), grapples with establishing new coordinates for urban research and politics under the current conditions of planetary urbanisation. His forthcoming book The Amateur (Verso, 2017) explores the spirit of amateurism in our age of the professional expert.

David Bandurski is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and other publications. He received a Human Rights Press Award in 2008 for an investigative piece on China’s use of professional associations to enforce internet censorship guidelines. Currently analyst and editor at the China Media Project, a research program at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism & Media Studies Centre, he also produces Chinese independent films and documentaries through his production company, Lantern Films.