Sajal Roy is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Livelihoods and Wellbeing (CLAW), UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney. Sajal is an expert in Critical Development Studies with geographical concentrations on South Asia, West-Africa, Scandinavia and Australia. His research interests centre on intersectonality, livelihoods, material wellbeing, gendered relations, refugee crisis management, non-economic loss and damage (of climate change), post-disaster recovery and disaster epidemiology. He possess specialisations in interdisciplinary studies, particularly Business, Society and Policy; Rural Development; Women & Gender, Development, Disaster Risk Management, as well as other fields. Debasish Nandy (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal, India. Dr. Nandy is the Coordinator of the Centre for Studies of South and South-East Asian Societies at the same university. He is theVisiting Faculty Member in the Department of Foreign Area Studies, Tajik National University, Dushanbe (Tajikistan) and Indian Cultural Ambassador to Tajikistan. A position awarded by the Tajik Society of Friendship with Foreign Countries, the Republic of Tajikistan in 2019. He was also a Guest Faculty Member in the Department of Political Science, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. Dr. Nandy has a very well-established publication record regarding publications in academic journals. He is the author of four books, and co-author of another two books. He also appears regularly on Bengali TV channels as a political analyst. His research interests include India’s Foreign Policy and South Asian Politics, and South-East Asian Affairs.
