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 and institutional analysis, and adaptation to climate change. Golam Rabbani was one of the key team members for preparing Bangladesh’s National Adaptation Programmes of Action (2005), Second National Communication (2012), and Adaptation Chapter for the Third National Communication of Bangladesh.

Sophie De Coninck brings over 20 years of international development, environment, and climate change experience to her role as Manager for the Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility, or LoCAL. Designed by the United Nations Capital Development Fund, LoCAL is a standard and internationally recognized country-based mechanism that finances locally led climate change adaptation, active in over 25 least developed countries (LDC) and African countries. Prior to joining LoCAL, Sophie worked on climate issues for the European Union.

Aage Jorgensen has for the past decade been Program Manager at the Nordic Development Fund (NDF) where he has helped build up a portfolio of climate change projects. He works with community-based adaptation, climate-resilient infrastructure, and urban development and is responsible for the NDF support to several countries in Africa, Asia, and Central America.

Shoubhik Ganguly has worked in the infrastructure development and financing sector in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Africa for more than 16 years. He has worked for multilateral and bilateral development institutions and governments for the development and financing of projects in the areas of climate resilience, water, and sanitation, urban infrastructure, municipal financing, and governance. He has supported national governments in the development of enabling frameworks and capacity for leveraging private finance in infrastructure.

Maria Moita is Senior Emergency and Post-Conflict Specialist in International Organization for Migration’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific based in Bangkok, covering over 30 countries. Maria supports prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery programs in countries across the region, dealing with the impacts of disaster and conflict-induced crisis, through migration and displacement lenses.

Enamul Mazid Khan Siddique is a development practitioner based in Bangladesh. He has been working in South Asia for the last 12 years on climate justice and a rights-based approach to natural resource management. Right now, he is working as Interim Country Director for Oxfam in Bangladesh.

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 (UNDRR) as researcher and policy analyst at the Risk Knowledge Section based in Geneva. He also supported UNDRR’s Regional Office for Africa, based in Nairobi, where he conducted capacity building activities on disaster risk knowledge in over 15 countries.