Litea BIUKOTO 

Pacific Community

Litea Biukoto currently serves as the Team Leader for Disaster Risk at the Pacific Community (SPC) and has more than 15 years of experience. Previously, she served as a Programme Manager for the Pacific Resilience Programme and as a Senior Advisor for Risk Reduction at the Pacific Community.

Victor CARDENAS 

Universidad Panamericana

Victor Cardenas is a Professor at the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico and his areas of expertise include catastrophe and climate change risk financing. Previously, he has worked as a senior consultant at the World Bank and at the Inter-American Development Bank.

Amir H. DELJU  

Climate Services Branch, World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Amir Delju currently works as a Senior Scientific Officer in the Climate Services branch at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). His areas of expertise include climate monitoring, data analysis, vulnerability assessment, and cataloguing high impact events. Previously, he served as Senior Scientific Coordinator in the Climate Adaptation and Prediction branch at WMO and as a meteorological observation and climate expert at the Iranian Meteorological Organization (IRIMO).

Fatima DRIOUECH 

University Mohammed VI Polytechnic, Morocco

Fatima Driouech currently works as Associate Professor at the University Mohammed VI Polytechnic, Morocco. She is the Vice-Chair of Working Group I of the IPCC and the Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee on Climate Services of the World Meteorological Organization. Previously, she served as the Head of the National Climate Centre as well as the Head of the Meteorological Research Center of the Moroccan Meteorology. She was also the lead author of the IPCC 5^th Assessment Report.

Anne HAMMILL 

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

Anne Hammill currently serves as the Senior Director of Resilience at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). Her most recent work is on developing and applying decision-support tools for climate change adaptation, undertaking participatory field research on livelihoods and climate change and building capacity of governments and civil society to integrate climate risk into policies and field projects. She has also worked with organizations in Eastern and Central Africa to better understand and address the links between conflict and conservation activities.

Ekhosuehi IYAHEN 

Insurance Development Forum (IDF)

Ekhosuehi Iyahen is the Secretary General for Insurance Development Forum (IDF). Her areas of expertise include comprehensive disaster risk management, disaster risk financing, risk analytics, risk transfer, insurance, public private partnerships, and climate adaptation. Previously, she served as the Director of Policy and Technical Advisory Services at the African Risk Capacity and as Vice President and Facility Supervisor at the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility.

Sönke KREFT 

United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)

Sönke Kreft serves as the Head of Unit at the United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and as the Executive Director at the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative. His areas of expertise include climate risk insurance, climate risk management, risk governance, financial protection approaches, adaptive social protection. Previously, he served as Associate Academic Officer for the Environmental Migration, Social Vulnerability and Adaptation division at UNU-EHS and as a Team Leader, International Climate Policy at Germanwatch.

Animesh KUMAR 

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

Animesh Kumar works as the Head of Office of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) in Bonn. His areas of expertise include comprehensive (climate and disaster) risk management, disaster loss and damage accounting, the Sendai Framework and SDG monitoring. Previously, he served as Deputy Head of Asia-Pacific and Africa in UNDRR.

Gernot LAGANDA 

United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

Gernot Laganda serves as the Director of Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction Programmes at the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). His areas of expertise include humanitarian action in a changing climate, climate risk financing, climate risk insurance, forecast-based financing and anticipatory action, climate information services, sustainable energy solutions in food systems, and ecosystem-based adaptation. Previously, he served as the Lead Technical Specialist on Climate and Environment at IFAD and as a Regional Technical Advisor for Climate Change Adaptation at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Sheri LIM 

CARE International UK

Sheri Lim currently serves as the Lead Advisor for Gender, Resilience and Climate Change for CARE International. Her areas of expertise include community-based climate change adaptation, natural resource management, forecast-based anticipatory action, and resilience in fragile and conflict affected states. She was one of the founding representatives of the START Network FOREWARN group on forecast-based early action and involved as a civil society representative for the InsuResilience Global Partnership. Previously, she has worked with various agencies and governments developing national climate change adaptation plans and legislation, supported community and grassroots levels on natural resource management and disaster preparedness programming, and helped develop and deliver climate change and resilience training for universities and civil society.

Shaban MAWANDA

Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

Reinhard MECHLER 

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Reinhard Mechler currently serves as the Head of the Systemic Risk and Resilience Group at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and as a Senior lecturer at the University for Economics and Business in Vienna. He has more than 20 years of experience and his areas of expertise include socioeconomics of natural disaster risk management and climate adaptation, climate risk and resilience analysis, risk management and climate change policy, and governance. Previously, he served as Visiting Professor at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz.

Rebecca NADIN 

Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

Rebecca Nadin is the Director for the Global Risks and Resilience programme at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and has more than 15 years of experience. Currently, she leads a multidisciplinary team of analysts to pioneer policy-driven research on emerging risk vectors and resulting opportunities to reduce vulnerability, build resilience and drive transformative and sustainable change. She is also an adjunct lecturer at the Centre for Environment and Population Health at Griffith University in Australia. Previously, she served as Director of the Adapting to Climate Change in China Project (ACCC Phase I and II) and as the Deputy Director of the British Council’s Global Sustainability Programme.

Stefan RÖSNER 

Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD)

Stefan Rösner is currently affiliated with the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) and is the Coordinator of WMO’s Regional Association VI (Europe) Regional Climate Centre (RCC) Network. His areas of expertise include climate monitoring and systematic observation. Previously, he was the Head of Regional Climate Monitoring division at DWD.

Linda Ann SIEGELE 

Independent Expert

Linda Ann Siegele is an Independent Legal Consultant and Trainer. Previously, she served as Staff Lawyer at the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD).

Harjeet SINGH 

Climate Action Network

Harjeet Singh currently acts as the Strategic Advisor for Global Partnerships to the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative and as Senior Advisor, Climate Impacts at the Climate Action Network. He is also a member of the Technical Expert Group on Comprehensive Risk Management (TEG-CRM) under the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage. His areas of expertise include social protection, displacement and migration, emergency response and rehabilitation, disaster risk management, loss and damage finance. Previously, he served as a Board Member of the Climate Action Network International (CAN-I) and the Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR).

David STEVENS 

Independent Expert

David Stevens is an Independent Expert with three decades of experience. His areas of expertise include climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction ensuring alignment with local, regional and national development policies and programmes across Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean and Africa, mostly in LDCs and SIDS. Previously, he has worked for the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank.

Adelle THOMAS 

Climate Analytics;

University of the Bahamas

Adelle Thomas serves as Regional Lead, Caribbean Science at Climate Analytics and is a Senior Fellow at the University of the Bahamas. She is also a Lead Author for the IPCC 6^th Assessment Report Working Group II, focusing on adaptation and loss and damage. She has over 15 years of experience and her areas of expertise include policies and mechanisms to address loss and damage, loss and damage in SIDS, non-economic loss and damage, particularly human mobility in the context of climate change, and limits and constraints to adaptation. Previously, she served as a Lead Author for the IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C and as a Contributing Author for the IPCC 5^th Assessment Report.

Ashley CODNER

Sustainable Development Specialist, Planning Institute of Jamaica

Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage

Camila Minerva RODRÍGUEZ 

Disaster Risk Reduction Director, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Dominican Republic

Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage

Elisa CALLIARI 

Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage

Viktoriia SHTETS 

Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage

Viktoriia Shtets has 14 years of work experience and her areas of expertise include climate policies, sustainable development, adaptation to climate change, particularly in agriculture, land issues, technology transfer, and capacity building. In 2020 she was engaged as a climate change expert for the German-Ukrainian Agricultural Policy Dialogue. Previously, she served as the Policy Dialogue Coordinator for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), as a Senior Expert for the Climate Strategy division of the Climate Policy department in the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine and as a Senior climate change Expert with the State Environmental Investment Agency of Ukraine.