Nandita Singh is Associate Professor and researcher in the field of water resources management. An environmental anthropologist by education, she has more than two decades of experience in research, education and advocacy in diverse areas in the sector, including water policy, gender, human rights, climate change, integrated water resources management, participatory processes, and traditional knowledge systems. After a 17 years long tenure at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, she is presently working at Södertörn University, Stockholm where she led a recently concluded transnational EU Cooperation project on Nature-Based Solutions for Water Management in the Peri-Urban. She currently leads three diverse research projects, one that explores Stakeholder Engagement in Wetland Restoration in Nordic region, while the other two examine Hydro-territorial Rights and Rural Sustainability and Gendered Traditional Ecological Knowledge around Wetlands in Global South contexts. She has authored several international publications, most significant being the pioneering book The Human Right to Water: From Concept to Reality from Springer International, which situates the human right to water discourse in a broader interdisciplinary paradigm. Together with environmental documentarian Om Prakash Singh, she has founded Millennium Water Story (www.millenniumwaterstory.org), the first initiative in the world that aims at water sensitization through exclusive photo-documentary works.

Shivangi Shreya is currently a PhD. Researcher at department of Environment, Development and Sustainability Studies Södertörn University, Sweden. She holds a Master's degree in Environmental Sciences and a Bachelor’s degree in Environment and Water Management from A.N. College, Patliputra University, India. Currently, she is writing her doctoral thesis on “Valuing Stakeholder Engagement in Wetland Restoration Projects” identifying and analyzing the value of Stakeholder Engagement in wetland restoration projects in Sweden. She is working on interdisciplinary approach connecting Environmental Sciences and Social Sciences. She was part of the international consortium of the transnational EU Cooperation project on Nature-Based Solutions for Water Management in the Peri-Urban (NATWIP) during her master’s program and she wrote her master’s thesis on "Nature-based Solutions for Water Management in India", identifying and analyzing the different forms of NBS adopted and policy support for NBS in urban and peri-urban areas. She gained research experience in “Water Quality” while working as a Trainee with Central Ground Water Board, Patna, India and “Water Footprint” while working as a Research Intern at Asian Development Research Institute, Patna, India. She received the Linnaeus Palme Scholarship for studies at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden in 2017 and qualified National Eligibility Test for Assistant Professor in India in December 2020.