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Jerry Skees is the Executive Director of Global Parametrics and is also the primary founder and visionary behind Global Parametrics. With a career of 35 years as a professor of agricultural economics at the University of Kentucky, Jerry, and his previous firm, GlobalAgRisk, were at the forefront of…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action
John Taylor is an urban planner and serves as the Chief Technical Advisor for FAO's Dhaka Food System Project in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action
Jothiganesh Sundaram (Jothi), is Regional Technical Lead on Climate and Weather-related risk and PRISM, at United Nations World Food Programme Regional Office for Asia-Pacific at Bangkok. At WFP, he focuses on strengthening capacity of Government systems in the Asia-Pacific region on climate risk…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Economics
SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 13: Climate Action
Julia Angela Mae Collado is the OIC-Chief of the Technical Assistance Division at the Environmental, Land Use and Urban Planning and Development Bureau, Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development, Philippines. She is an environmental planner and an agricultural engineer. She started her…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action
Julien Oliver currently leads the development and implementation of consultancies and digital solutions supporting hydro-meteorological disaster risk analysis and management at DHI. He has more than 16 years of experience in hydrological and hydraulic modelling, IT system development, extreme value…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 13: Climate Action
Julija Kuklyte Polycarp is a Climate Change Specialist at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, where she is leading the Bank’s climate adaptation policy and strategy, as well as overseeing its adaptation investment portfolio. She is responsible for ensuring climate resilience-related…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Katherine Miles is the gender consultant to the InsuResilience Gender Working Group and a technical expert on the gender dimensions of climate and disaster risk finance and insurance. Katherine co-authored research and guidance including Integrating Gender Considerations into Different Models of…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Urban Development
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action
Kirsten McDonald is an associate principal with Arup’s International Development team in the Australasian region. Kirsten has 28 years’ experience scoping, planning, designing and delivering programs and projects that maximise impact throughout Asia, Australia, and the Pacific for organisations…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Urban Development
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 13: Climate Action
Kotchakorn Voraakhom is a landscape architect from Thailand who works on building productive green public space that tackles climate change in urban dense areas and climate-vulnerable communities.
Winning a contract to build Bangkok’s first public park in three decades, she created an 11-acre “…
Topic(s): Agriculture and Natural Resources, Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Energy, Environment
SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty, Goal 2: Zero Hunger, Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 14: Life Below Water, Goal 15: Life on Land
Krishal is a qualified Civil Engineer, who joined McLarens as a Loss Adjuster in early 2018 after gaining valuable experience in a highly regarded local engineering firm, working closely with the insurance market.
He specialises in Property and Construction and Engineering losses, utilising…
Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, Finance
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities