Jothiganesh Sundaram

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 analytics, impact-based forecasting, last mile climate services and climate informed decision making. He has more than 10 years of experience in implementing Climate Risk Management, Disaster Risk Reduction projects, in collaboration with several International, UN, and Government agencies.

Yen Nguyen Thi

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 (CVCA), community resilience capacity building, resilient livelihood linked with nature-based solutions, and agro-climate information services targeting poor ethnic minority women.