◆ Professor Kim Fortun is an interdisciplinary ethnographer specializing in comparative studies of environmental knowledge, injustice, and governance. Her research began with the aftermath of the 1984 Bhopal disaster in India and has focused on environmental justice throughout her career.

◆ She is particularly concerned with compound vulnerabilities and "combo disasters," examining how factors in various systems intersect to exacerbate problems. Her work emphasizes the role of knowledge infrastructure in shaping environmental vulnerability and response capabilities.

◆ She has conducted extensive fieldwork in India and the United States, with active collaborations across East Asia. Additionally, she has helped develop digital research infrastructure, including the Platform for Experimental, Collaborative Ethnography (PECE), to support distributed, collaborative research and teaching. PECE is now freely available and used worldwide for various projects.

◆ Borrowing profound relevant experience in engaging the crucial teaching and research problematics through the Platform for Experimental, Collaborative Ethnography (PECE).

◆ Providing insights to understand the status quo and challenges of environmental and social governance across the global, regional, and local scale, which echoes one of our aims of ISESEA-10.

◆ Through in-depth exchanges in the keynote session, to come up with possible frameworks of how countries in East Asia under current phase of sustainable transition from brown economy manage to confront the regional economic and social inequalities.