Marie-Luise Frost (born 1986) studied Religious Studies, Area Studies Asia/Africa and Religion and Culture in Potsdam, Berlin, Lausanne and Oslo. Besides different freelance activities in the cultural field, she has been working as researcher in the Research Programme on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development at Humboldt University Berlin since 2015. She is Research Associate at the University of Pretoria.

Professor R. Simangaliso Kumalo is Acting Dean of the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics and Director of the Centre for Constructive Theology at University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and Fellow of Wesley House College, University of Cambridge, UK.

Nora Laetitia Monzer is the Coordinator of the International Network on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development.

Full Professor in Anthropology (Religion & Gender) & National Rated Scientist. Received institutional and national recognition for interdisciplinary research. In 2013, won a National Award (Department of Science & Technology for Women in Science). On editorial Boards of Anthropology Southern Africa (Taylor Francis), Oriental Anthropologist (Sage) and Religion & Development (Brill). Her background in feminist research allows for critical empirical work across international projects.

Philipp Öhlmann is Senior Associated Researcher in the Centre for Rural Development at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Botswana. Moreover, he is a Research Associate at the University of Pretoria. Philipp works on religion, development and sustainability. He is editor of the IN//RCSD journal Religion & Development and the book series Studies on Religious Social Practice.

Teddy Chalwe Sakupapa is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Religion and Theology and teaches ecumenical studies and social ethics. Originally from Zambia, his research traverses the fields of ecumenical studies, systematic theology and social ethics, decoloniality, African theology and the history of Christianity in Africa on which he has published several articles and book chapters. He is also an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Tradition.

Juliane Stork (born 1991 in Berlin) is the John S. Mbiti Research Fellow at the Research Programme for Religious Communities and Sustainable Development. She pursues a PhD on "The Production of Theology in African Independent Christianity - the Case of Ecology in the Zion Christian Church in South Africa".

Dr Tanya van Wyk is Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology, Christian Ethics and Spirituality at the Faculty of Theology and Religion. Her current research foci include political theology, feminist theology and ethics and religion and sustainable development with a focus on gender equity. She is the Chairperson of the Research Ethics Committee of her Faculty and is currently a research fellow with the Programme for Religious Communities and Sustainable Development at Humboldt University.