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Margaret Arnold is the Global Lead on the Social Dimensions of Climate Change and a Senior Social Development Specialist with the World Bank. Margaret has been with the World Bank since 1995, and currently leads work on social resilience, inclusive approaches to climate and disaster risk management…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action
For the past twenty years, Maria Pia has designed and implemented integrated, climate-resilient urban development programs while leading environmental policy advisory across Asia—including China, India, Mongolia, and Pakistan—focused on water and air pollution and, more recently, the circular…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 13: Climate Action
Maria Theresa Medina Castro is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cooperatives and Bio-Enterprise Development (ICOPED), College of Economics and Management, University of the Philippines Los Banos. She finished her Master’s degree in Development Studies with Distinction at Victoria…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action
Marino Deocariza is an urban planner from Oxfam GB and Team Lead of Asian Development Bank regional technical assistance (TA) Promoting Urban Climate Change Resilience in Selected Asian Cities (Subproject 3). This TA project is implemented in eight cities in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and the…
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
He currently works in various thematic projects regarding Disaster Risk Management for ADB. He is also part of the ADB GIS- Working group. He is also developing a pro-ject together with the Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management team financed by the Austrian Government on a Next…
Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, Climate Change
SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action
Markus Repnik is an international development executive with 30 years of experience gained with the United Nations, World Bank Group, Austrian Government, NGOs, and private sector, including 16 years of field experience in developing and transition countries.
Since October 2017 Mr. Repnik…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Finance
SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action
Martha Rogers is an economist in The Nature Conservancy’s Center for Sustainability Science. In this role, she serves as the technical lead for the Conservancy’s ongoing collaboration with Dow. She works closely with Dow staff to develop tools and processes to implement the company’s ten-year…
Topic(s): Disaster Risk Management, Environment, Finance
SDG: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 14: Life Below Water
Matt is a seismologist who focuses on earthquake forecasting and seismic hazard modeling.
His role at GNS is twofold: he leads the National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM) - a scientific model that uses geodetic modeling and historical earthquake data to estimate the likelihood and strength of…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management, Environment
SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action, Goal 15: Life on Land
Md. Golam Rabbani is the Head of the Climate Bridge Fund (CBF), BRAC in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has been working on environment and climate change issues at national and regional levels for about nineteen years, mainly in the areas of climate risk and vulnerability assessment, risk management, policy…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
SDG: Goal 13: Climate Action
Medrilzam is Director of Environment at the Ministry of National Development Planning (BAPPENAS), Indonesia. He has been serving BAPPENAS since 1993 and had been appointed in various structural and functional positions since then. He is one of Indonesia’s leading experts on environmental and…
Topic(s): Climate Change, Disaster Risk Management
SDG: Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, Goal 13: Climate Action