Professor Walter Leal holds the Chair of Climate Change Management and Health at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany), the first of ist kind in Germany, and the Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). He directs the Research and Transfer Centre "Sustainability Development and Climate Change Management". His main research interests are in the fields of sustainable development and climate change, also including aspects of climate change and health.

Dr Franziska Wolf heads the Climate Change and Health Division at the Research and Transfer Centre "Sustainability Development and Climate Change Management" and directs the International Expert Centre on Climate Change and Health (IECCH) at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. Her main research interests are in the field of sustainable adaptation to climate change including aspects of climate change and health, in particular but not limited to the Global South.