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Masaki Kataoka Editor

Steven Ratuva is the Pro-Vice Chancellor, Pacific as well as Distinguished Professor and Director of the Macmillan Brown Center for Pacific Studies.

Mercedes Alda-Fernández has PhD in Political Science and Public Administration. Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the Rey Juan Carlos University.

Dr. Dalila Gharbaoui is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Canterbury under the NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs funded Pacific Ocean and Climate Crisis Assessment.

Masaki Kataoka is a lecturer at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan. He received his PhD from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, in 2023.