Dr Bob Rees is Professor in Agriculture and Climate Change and Head of the Carbon Management Centre at SRUC (Scotland's Rural College), UK. With over 150 published papers, Professor Rees is internationally renowned for his research on soil carbon sequestration, agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation, nutrient cycling and ways agriculture can adapt to climate change.

Dr Jørgen E. Olesen is Professor in Climate Change and Agriculture and Head of the Department of Agroecology at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is also an Adjunct Professor at both the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Ganzu Agricultural University, China. He has an international reputation for his research on the effect of agriculture on the environment and how environmental change affects agroecosystems.