Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes, PhD, is Head of Discipline (Architecture, Industrial Design and Planning) at Griffith University. She specialises in climate change adaptation, urban and disaster resilience, and natural resource management. She is active in Urban Climate Change Research Network and UN‑Habitat’s Planners for Climate Action. With a keen interest in planning education, she leads major organisations as Chair of Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) and President of Australia and New Zealand Association of Planning Schools (ANZAPS). She co‑edited Off the Plan: The Urbanisation of the Gold Coast and serves on the Journal of Planning Education and Research Editorial Board.Andrea I Frank, PhD, is Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research interests encompass comparative international planning, sustainable development and climate change, public participation, and pedagogy. She has represented the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) and chaired the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) 2010–14. She is coordinating the AESOP Thematic Group on Planning Education. Her recent publications include Urban Planning Education (Springer, 2018), Teaching Urban and Regional Planning: Innovative Pedagogies in Practice (Elgar, 2021), Transformative Planning: Smarter, Greener and More Inclusive Practices (DURP, Vol 7, 2022) and The Routledge Companion to International Comparative Planning (2025).Christopher Silver, PhD, FAICP, is Emeritus Professor of Urban and Regional Planning who joined the faculty at the University of Florida in 2006 as Dean of the College of Design, Construction and Planning. He is a four-time Fulbright Senior Scholar in Indonesia and holds honorary professorships at the University of Indonesia and the Institute of Technology, Bandung. His scholarship includes 9 books, 21 book chapters and 21refereed articles dealing with race, politics and planning in the U.S and international planning, beginning with Planning the Megacity: Jakarta in the Twentieth Century (2008) and Urban Flood Risk Management: Looking at Jakarta (2022). He is past co-editor the Journal of the American Planning Association and served as co-editor of Dialogues 6 and Dialogues 7.