Dr. Paul Venton specializes in strengthening people’s disaster and climate resilience and is passionate about the protection, restoration and sustainable management of nature. He has 24 years of experience in more than 25 countries and an action-research PhD in improving the sustainability and scale of community-based disaster risk management. Paul co-designed and teaches a course on Emergency Response, Disasters and Public Health at Harvard University as part of a Master of Public Health degree.
Paul began his career with the NGO Tearfund, working with local partners and communities in contexts of conflict, insecurity, and disaster. At Tearfund, he helped to establish a pioneering disaster mitigation and preparedness agenda with partners across the international community. Subsequently, he has been a freelance consultant for 18 years. He has advised and worked in teams with bilateral and multilateral donors, many UN agencies, NGOs, research and academic institutions, intergovernmental organisations, think tanks, the private sector, and documentary filmmakers, as well as with civil society and local community groups.