Julie Ann de los Reyes is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. She obtained her PhD in Geography from the University of Manchester in the UK. Her research is concerned with the dynamics of energy transition in East and Southeast Asia, focusing in particular on coal investments (and disinvestments) and emerging hydrogen supply chains. She has been a recipient of prestigious grants and fellowship awards, including the EU’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, Erasmus Mundus Scholarship, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science’s Grant-in-Aid for early career scientists. Her articles have been published in high-impact journals such as Geoforum, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, and the Journal of Peasant Studies.
Jojo Nem Singh is an Assistant Professor at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Netherlands. He is a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP), Washington DC and an Affiliate Research Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS), The Netherlands. He leads a major research programme, Green Industrial Policy in the Age of Rare Metals: A Transregional Comparison of Growth Strategies in Rare Earths Mining (GRIP-ARM), funded by the European Research Council Starting Grant No. 950056 (2021-2026). He is author of Business of the State: Why State Ownership Matters for Resource Governance (Forthcoming, Oxford University Press) and editor of three special issues, including The Politics of Designing and Negotiating Industrial Policy in the 21st Century (2023, Third World Quarterly) and Developmental States beyond East Asia (with Jesse Ovadia, 2018, Third World Quarterly).
Leonardo Guzmán Sanabria is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of International Business, Santo Tomas University, section Tunja, Colombia. Graduated as Finance and International Relations from Universidad Externado de Colombia and MSc in Sociology from the National University of Colombia. he has fieldwork experiences on international and local environmental and social development studies, these complemented with Asian and Latin American studies, both from social and critical perspectives.
Isamu Okada is a political scientist and a Professor at the Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University. Before his current position, he worked at the Japanese Embassy in the Plurinational State of Bolivia and as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Japan Society for Promotion of Science. He has publications in resource governance, political participation, and Latin American politics. His latest research covers policy measures and citizens’ reactions under the pandemic COVID-19 in Japan and Latin American countries. He has numerous fieldwork experiences in Peru, Bolivia, and other countries. Also, he has publications employing quantitative methods and on-site and online surveys before and during the pandemic. He was awarded by the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization, Japan Society of Social Science on Latin America, and the Japanese Association of Electoral Studies.
Olga-Lucia Castillo, is retired full professor and independent researcher; her research interests are focused on critical analyzes on the "development” concept and the discourses and practices that it entails; also, on the socio-ecological conflicts generated by the current dynamics of exploitation, production, distribution and consumption of fossil fuels and the socio-political challenges brought by the energy transition. Among her recent publications on the topic are Castillo, O.L. (2022) Who, How and How Far – Renewable Energy Transition in Industrialized and Emerging Countries (Green Energy and Environmental Technology Journal); Martínez V. & Castillo O.L. (2019) Colombian Energy Planning – Neither for Energy not for Colombia (Energy Policy) and Martínez V. & Castillo O.L. (2016) The political ecology of hydropower - Social justice and conflict in Colombian hydroelectricity development (Energy Research & Social Science).