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Tom Wilms is a coastal engineer with over 10 years of involvement in various Building with Nature projects around the world and integrated, multi-disciplinary projects in the coastal zone. For this project he is the project manager at Witteveen+Bos and as such responsible for the implementation of…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Environment
SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action
Prior to his appointment as the Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India in January 2022, Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran was a writer, author, teacher and consultant.
He has written a weekly Mint column for fifteen years on Tuesdays since 2007.
He has co-…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Finance
SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action
Vicente Anzelini leads the global and regional analysis team at Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and coordinates the production of the Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID), regional reports, and country profiles. He previously worked for the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action
Dr. Wei-Sen Li is the Executive Director of APEC Emergency Preparedness Capacity Building Center (EPCC) and the Secretary General of National Sceince and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR). Dr. Li holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from National Central University, where he specializes…
Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, Finance
SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals
Wiwi is a distinguished expert in urban and regional planning, currently serving as the Head of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Universitas Diponegoro. With over 15 years of experience, Wiwi has been actively involved in urban sustainability and resilience projects. She has led…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Urban Development
SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action
Xianfu, ADB’s focal point for climate change adaptation, has worked on the science and policy of climate change adaptation for the past 20 years. Trained as an applied meteorologist, he spent the first 10 years of her career researching climate scenarios and their use in climate change impacts and…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action
Nguyen Thi Yen is the climate change and disaster reduction advisor of CARE International in Vietnam. She has approximately 20 years experience in areas of community-based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, particularly in climate and disaster vulnerability and capacity analysis…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action
Dr. Yu joined IGES in April 2013 and is a Senior Policy Researcher and task manager in the Climate and Energy Area. Her current research has focused on climate finance, in particular the governance mechanism, the institutional arrangements, and the effectiveness of climate finance. Before IGES, she…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Environment, Finance
SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action