Philip Kelly is an economic/labour geographer at York University in Toronto, Canada. He was born and raised in the United Kingdom and trained at Oxford, McGill and the University of British Columbia. Before arriving at York in 2000, he was Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. His research and teaching focus on issues of global development, economic inequality, labour and migration. He has a longstanding commitment to research in the Philippines and Southeast Asia, and has worked extensively on immigration issues in Canada. His current research focuses on Filipino labour migration to global fishing fleets. His publications include Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction (with Neil Coe and Henry Yeung; third edition, Wiley: 2020), Mobilities of Labor and Capital in Asia (co-edited with Preet Aulakh; Cambridge: 2020), Migration, Agrarian Transition and Rural Change in Southeast Asia (edited; Routledge, 2013), and, Landscapes of Globalization: Human Geographies of Economic Change in the Philippines (Routledge, 2000). 

Rowena Boquiren is a retired professor from the University of the Philippines-Baguio, where she served for over three decades. During her tenure, she taught courses in history, research methodology, and conservation and ecology, and held key academic positions, including Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

She has worked extensively as a consultant and researcher on environmental governance, indigenous land rights, and community-based forest monitoring across Southeast Asia. Her expertise contributed to major initiatives with organizations such as the Haribon Foundation, Conservation International–Philippines, NTFP-EP Philippines, GIZ–Ateneo School of Government, and the World Bank.

Professor Boquiren has been recognized with numerous awards for her scholarly work. These include the Gawad Bagong Kasaysayan para sa Pagtataguyod sa Kasaysayang Pangkapaligiran at Kasaysayan ng Kordilyera (2018) for her contributions to environmental and Cordillera history, and the Gawad Chancellor (1998) as Outstanding Faculty Researcher in the Social Science and Law Cluster.

Kristian Karlo Saguin is a Professor of Geography at the University of the Philippines Diliman with extensive research engagements on various political ecological dimensions of urban, agrarian and environmental change in the Philippines. He is the author of the Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila's Resource Frontier (University of California Press, 2022), which received the Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies and the Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography from the American Association of Geographers.