Dr Neal Haddaway is a senior researcher specialising in evidence synhtesis methodology and currently a guest researcher at ZALF (the Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research), and a Research Associate at the Africa Centre for Evidence at the University of Johannesburg. He has been providing training in systematic reviewing and mapping for over 10 years, with extensive experience in developing methodology, best practices, guidance and tools for evidence synthesis across disciplines. Neal has authored over 150 research articles, mostly related to evidence synthesis methods, he is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence, he established and co-chaired the Campbell Collaboration Climate Solutions Coordinating Group, co-founded and runs the Evidence Synthesis Hackathon, and leads the Evidence Synthesis and Meta-Analysis in R Conference (ESMARConf). He co-edited the book Stakeholder Engagement in Environmental Evidence Synthesis. Neal is an endorsed CEE trainer in systematic review and map methodology.

Dr José Luis Vicente Vicente is a postdoctoral researcher at ZALF (Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research) currently focused on assessing the socio-ecological impacts from the implementation of food initiatives aiming at transforming the agri-food system. Currently he develops his work within the EU project FoodSHIFT2030, where he assesses the impacts of regional agroecology-based food hubs in the city of Berlin. During his career he has worked on mitigation and adaptation to climate change in agriculture, specialising in biogeochemistry of agroecosystems. Because of this, he has participated as an expert reviewer in a number of IPCC reports. José Luis’ work has also focused on evidence synthesis research projects, including leading a number of meta-analyses and systematic reviews on the topic.