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Dave Brunsdon

Director, Kestrel Group, New Zealand

Dave Brunsdon is a director of Kestrel Group, a small New Zealand consultancy that provides strategic advice on the resilience of buildings and infrastructure, and on emergency management issues. He is the principal engineering adviser to a range of national organizations and local …

   Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

David Dodman

Director, Human Settlements Group, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

David Dodman is the Director of the Human Settlements Group at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and a Lecturer in the Development Planning Unit, University College London (UCL). He holds a D.Phil. in Geography from the University of Oxford, and works in the fields…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

David Lee Kuo Chuen

Professor, Singapore University of Social Sciences

David Lee Kuo Chuen is a Professor at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. He is also the Vice President of the Economic Society of Singapore and council member of British Blockchain Association. He is the founder of several entities including Libai Academy, the external advisor to Stanford…

   Topic(s): ICT
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

David Nguyen

Associate Professor, Tohoku University

Dr. David N. Nguyen is an Associate Professor of Tohoku University's International Research Institute for Disaster Science in Japan, as well as a researcher at Japan's National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention. Dr. Nguyen is originally from the United States and…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Environment
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

David Simmons

Senior Director, Disaster Risk Finance, WTW

David Simmons has over 40 year’s re/insurance experience focusing upon catastrophic hazards. He has a mathematics degree from the University of Bristol and is a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute and a Vice-President of the London Insurance Institute.  He was a pioneer in…

   Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, Finance
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Debora Utami

Program Manager, YAKKUM Emergency Unit Indonesia

Debora Dian Utami or Amie is currently the Program Manager of YAKKUM Emergency Unit (YEU) Indonesia—an NGO that was established in 2001 and has mandates on inclusive emergency response, disaster risk reduction (DRR), and climate change adaptation. Amie graduated with a degree in communication…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

Deepa Joshi

Gender, Youth and Inclusion Lead, Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) and International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Deepa Joshi is the Gender, Youth and Inclusion Lead at WLE and International Water Management Institutes (IWMI). A feminist political ecologist by training, her research has analysed shifts in environmental policies and how these restructure contextually complex intersections of gender, poverty,…

   Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action

Despoina Kouria

Supplier Diversity and Sustainability Analyst , World Bank Group

Despoina Kouria is a Supplier Diversity and Sustainability analyst with Corporate Procurement at the World Bank Group (WBG), which she joined in 2020. She is part of the team that mainstreams sustainability considerations into over $1.7 Billion of annual purchases for the World Bank Group’s…

   Topic(s): Gender Equality, Governance and Public Sector Management, ICT
   SDG: Goal 5: Gender Equality, Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Digbijoy Shukla

Business Development Lead, Startup Ecosystem ASEAN, Amazon Web Services

Digbijoy has close to two decades of wide-ranging experience across diverse sectors, initially started his career in education marketing with reputed educational institutes and then subsequently joined the advertising and events industry to execute several large scale events/campaigns including a…

   Topic(s): ICT
   SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Donya Sheikh Khan

Senior Specialist in Data Management Sustainability Consultancy, Ramboll

Dr. Donya Sheikh Khan is a senior specialist in Ramboll specialized in data-driven services and data management for the built environment. She has been involved in a large-scale data analytic project for the Danish Energy Agency, a conceptual data strategy for a global real estate company in…

   Topic(s): ICT, Urban Development
   SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities