Shaun Grech (Phd) is Honorary Associate Professor in Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction at the University of Cape Town, founder and director of The Critical Institute (Malta) and Affiliate Associate Professor in International Relationsat the University of Malta. He is also editor-in-chief of the international journal, Disability and the Global South (DGS) and co-editor of the book series, Palgrave Studies in Disability and International Development. Grech is an established international academic and has published extensively in academic journals, is author of the book Disability and Poverty in the Global South: Renegotiating Development in Guatemala (Palgrave Macmillan), and co-editor of Inclusive Communities: A Critical Reader (Sense Publishers), Disability in the Global South: The Critical Handbook (Springer) and Disability and Colonialism: (Dis)encounters and Anxious Intersectionalities (Routledge). He serves on the board of numerous international journals including Social Inclusion, and the Annual Review of Critical Psychology among others.

Jörg Weber (PhD) is Senior Global Advisor Community Based Inclusive Development (CBID) for CBM International and Honorary Research Affiliate at the University of Cape Town. He has over 20 years of experience advising community programmes as well as UN bodies, professional organizations and government agencies in inclusive community development, rehabilitation, education and inclusive livelihoods. He has designed grassroots tools and training for organisations, community mobilizers and primary school teachers. Joerg has conducted programme evaluations in more than 40 countries worldwide, for governments, INGOs and multilaterals, including WHO and PAHO. He is executive Editor of the WHO online Training "INCLUDE".