Ram Boojh is the CEO of the Mobius Foundation, and served with UNESCO New Delhi, leading its Ecology programme. He has worked with the Indian Government, as well as a number of universities internationally. He has received several honours and awards, including the prestigious Science Academy Medal in 1983, conferred by Indira Gandhi, then Prime Minister of India. He has published over 100 journal articles, and is the author and editor of 15 books on the environment and sustainability.Natarajan Ishwaran is the Executive Director for the International Promotion of Deep-time Digital Earth (DDE), a "big-science" initiative of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Environmental Development and as Visiting Professor at the UNESCO Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage, Beijing, and the Institute for Resources, Ecosystem and Environment of Agriculture at Nanjing Agricultural University, China. He is also an Honorary Professor at the College of Social Sciences and International Studies of the University of Exeter, UK.