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Sharon Friel is an ARC Laureate Fellow, Professor of Health Equity and Director of ARCHE | Australian Research Centre for Health Equity at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia, and the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.

Dr Nicholas Frank is a Laureate Research Fellow with the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse in the School of Regulation and Global Governance. Prior to this, he was an Associate Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University. Nicholas specializes in the political economy of trade and investment governance. He employs formal theory, econometrics, inferential network approaches, and text-as-data techniques in his research.

Dr Hridesh Gajurel is a Laureate Research Fellow with the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse in the School of Regulation and Global Governance. Prior to this, he was Lecturer and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Queensland. He is a political economist who specialises in comparative capitalism, corporate governance, financialisation, and new institutional theory.

Giorgia (Gio) is a Laureate PhD candidate at the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse. Her thesis will focus on the role of philanthropy in shaping planetary health equity research priorities. Originally trained as a biomedical scientist, Gio worked with various non-profit organisations focused on global health and sustainability including Health Care Without Harm Europe, Buy Better Food at ICLEI Europe and the Wellbeing Economy Alliance.

Roxana is a Laureate PhD candidate at the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse. Her research examines the impact of digitalisation on curbing greenwashing in the Australian and European food sectors. Roxana is an experienced political scientist with a passion for sustainable development. Her focus areas include Circular Economy, resource efficiency, the EU Single Market for Green Products, product life-cycle and Environmental Footprint.

Chelsea Hunnisett is a Laureate PhD Candidate and Government Relations Specialist at the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse. Chelsea's research focuses on planetary health equity metrics within Australia's approach to the wellbeing economy. Chelsea is an experienced policy, advocacy and government relations specialist with expertise in planetary health, food and preventive health policy. Chelsea has held positions at the Climate and Health Alliance, The George Institute for Global Health and the Climate Action Network Australia.

Amy is our Senior Project Officer, and is also a Research Officer within the ANU’s School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), working on the NHMRC Ideas Project ‘Behind the scenes of socioeconomic advantage and health inequities: evaluating the role of public policy and privilege’, and a member of the Australian Research Centre for Health Equity (ARCHE). Her research interests include governance for healthy, sustainable, and equitable food systems, including the roles of both those traditionally understood as being responsible for governing (e.g., governments), and others (e.g., civil society actors). She is also interested in wellbeing economies and the ways these alternatives could contribute to planetary health equity.

Dr Megan Arthur is a Laureate Research Fellow with the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse. She is an interdisciplinary qualitative researcher working at the intersection of social policy and public health. She studies the politics of governance for health and wellbeing at multiple levels, with a particular interest in the social and environmental determinants of health equity, and how these are mediated by political, economic, cultural, and commercial environments.