Chris Barrett is the Stephen B. and Janice G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics and Management and a professor in the Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy.

Steven Osofsky is the Jay Hyman Professor of Wildlife Health and Health Policy in the College of Veterinary Medicine. His current interests include conservation of free-ranging wildlife; relationships among sustainable conservation, system resilience, economic development, and human health and well-being; and developing science-based policy guidance to address challenges at the interface of wildlife, agriculture and other types of land use, and people.

Dotsevi Sogah's research covers the design and synthesis of new polymers, preparation of protein-based polymers, and application of living polymerization methods to surface functionalization of nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes.

Peter Mcintyre is an aquatic conservation ecologist and the Dwight Webster Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow. Working with a wide range of collaborators, he develop management approaches that balance human interests with protecting biodiversity. Their work is worldwide in scope, using detailed field studies at sites in New York, the Great Lakes, East Africa, Southeast Asia, and Hawaii to gain general insights and identify global patterns.

Kifle Gebremedhin is an international professor of biological and environmental engineering. He is an elected fellow of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) and a member of ASCE, National Frame Building Association, Institute of Biological Engineering, and various honor societies.

He is the recipient of numerous awards for teaching, research, advising, service and leadership. Gebremedhin has published over 200-refereed journal articles and research technical publications and has made several invited presentations nationally and internationally.

Chantal Thomas directs the Clarke Initiative for Law and Development in the Middle East and North Africa at Cornell Law School. She is a 2021–22 Global Public Voices fellow.

Muna Ndulo, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of International and Comparative Law, is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of constitution making, governance and institution building, international criminal law, African legal systems, and human rights. He led the Einaudi Center's Institute for African Development from 2001 to 2020.