Rhea Katsanakis

Rhea is a Programme Management Officer at the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Headquarters in Geneva. She is currently the Project Lead for the UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. She previously worked as a Tsunami Officer and Programme Officer in the UNDRR Regional Office for Africa in Nairobi, Kenya, supporting African governments in measuring progress in disaster risk reduction and developing national risk reduction policies and plans. She has relevant field experience in 20 African countries and has more recently supported work in the Asia Pacific, Arab States, Central Asia, and European countries. She holds a Master's in Political Science, Sociology, and Public Law.