Dr Jewellord (Jojo) Nem Singh is a Principal Research Fellow in Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex, UK, and Lead Convenor of the Critical Minerals Policy Lab. He serves as Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded GRIP-ARM project on green industrial policy and rare metals. His expertise spans global political economy, resource nationalism, and industrial policy in developing countries.

Dr Anabel Marín is a Research Fellow and Leader of the Business, Markets and State Cluster at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). Her research examines how mineral-rich countries can turn extraction into innovation, industrial development and fairer governance, with recent work on lithium value chains, civic power in mining conflicts, and critical minerals partnerships.

Dr Yingfeng Ji is a Research Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher on the ERC-funded GRIP-ARM project at the University of Sussex. She holds a PhD and an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge. Her research covers green industrial policy, China's overseas supply chains, and the political economy of critical minerals, with fieldwork in Central Asia.

Dr Arnie Cordero Trinidad is a Research Fellow at the University of Sussex and an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He holds a PhD in Sociology from Trinity College Dublin. His work on development, migration, class, and disaster risk reduction has been published in European Societies, Sociology, and the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.

Dr Joanna Morley is a Fellow of the Critical Minerals Policy Lab and holds a PhD in Latin American Studies from the University of Liverpool (ESRC-funded). Her research focuses on the political economy of energy transitions, large-scale infrastructure projects, and contested natural resource governance in extractive industries.