Damien Short is Director of the Human Rights Consortium (HRC) and Professor of Human Rights and Environmental Justice at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. He has spent his entire professional career working in the field of human rights, both as a scholar and human rights advocate and activist. He has researched and published extensively in the areas of indigenous peoples' rights, genocide studies, reconciliation projects and environmental human rights. He is Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Human Rights.

Martin Crook is Associate Lecturer at Roehampton University and a PhD Candidate at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. His research interests include human rights and the ecological crisis, the political economy of genocide and ecocide, energy harms and development. He is Assistant Editor of the International Journal of Human Rights.