Nikolas Sellheim holds a doctorate in law from the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland. Having intensively published on Arctic governance and marine mammal issues, he specialises on the interplay between international conservation law and local communities. He has done fieldwork at the Barents Secretariat in Kirkenes, in the Canadian commercial seal hunt in Newfoundland and in the ‘Cove’ of Taiji, Japan. Nikolas conducted his two post-docs at the Polar Cooperation Research Centre at Kobe University, Japan, and at the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science in Finland. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Polar Record, the journal of the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. Nikolas runs his own consultancy Sellheim Environmental (www.sellheimenvironmental.org).  Dwayne Ryan Menezes is the Founder and Managing Director of two London-based think-tanks, Polar Research and Policy Initiative (PRPI) and Human Security Centre (HSC). He is also the Director of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Greenland in the UK Parliament, Vice-President at Arctic Today, Advisory Board Member at JONAA, an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, and an Honorary Fellow at the UCL Institute of Risk and Disaster Reduction at University College London. He read history at the LSE and the University of Cambridge, graduating from the latter with a PhD, and has been affiliated since with research centres at Cambridge, Oxford and London. Formerly, he served as Consultant to the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Principal Consultant to the European Parliament Intergroup on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Research Associate to a UN Special Rapporteur, Director of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Yemen in the UK Parliament, Governor of a Church of England school, and Founder and Director of the film company, Think-Film Impact Production. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Royal Geographical Society and Royal Society of Arts.