资料来源: Eustace Crispin d’Auvergne
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Eustace Crispin D'AUVERGNE
Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
Eustace Crispin d’Auvergne serves as a Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management Coordinator with the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and also serves in the Paris Committee on Capacity-Building. Previously, he worked with the Government of Saint Lucia in the fields of fisheries, natural resources, environment and energy, with his final position being that of the Chief Sustainable Development and Environment Officer. He also served as Saint Lucia’s climate change Negotiator for 15 years.
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Kristie EBI
University of Washington, USA
Kristie L. Ebi is a Professor at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on sources of vulnerability, health risks of climate change, adaptation policies and risks’ reduction in multi-stressor environments, and the health co-benefits of mitigation policies. She has assessed vulnerabilities and implemented adaptation policies and programmes for countries in Central America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. She has been an author on multiple national and international climate change assessments, including the fourth U.S. National Climate Assessment, the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC 6th Assessment Report. and the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C. She has edited four books on aspects of climate change and has more than 200 publications.
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Gersom van der ELST
UNFCCC Least Developed Countries Expert Group
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Nigel CRAWHALL
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Nigel Crawhall is Chief of Section for the Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems programme at UNESCO, within the Sector for Natural Sciences, Division for Science Policy and Basic Sciences. He is the UNESCO focal point on climate adaptation and on loss and damage, with a focus on non-economic loss and damage. He is formerly the UNESCO focal point on Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Nigel Crawhall holds a PhD in Sociolinguistics from the University of Cape Town.
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资料来源: Sisira Madurapperuma
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Sisira MADURAPPERUMA
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
Sisira Madurapperuma is the Director at the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC). He also works as a Researcher at the Global Disaster Resilience Center, School of Applied Science at the University of Huddersfield, UK. His areas of expertise include disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, and sustainable development, especially in the thematic fields of risk governance, estimation of economic and non-economic costs of climate change and disaster impacts, post-disaster damage, and loss estimation, resilient recovery, food security and overall institutional system development including policy, strategy and programme formulation. Previously, he served as the Head of Department at the ADPC.
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资料来源: Deissy Martínez-Barón
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Deissy MARTÍNEZ-BARÓN
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS); International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Deissy Martínez-Barón is the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Regional Programme Leader for Latin America based at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture. She has over eight years of experience in bringing science to support decision-making processes across scales, her research has focused on climate-smart agriculture, low emissions development and decarbonization pathways, policy science interface and engagement, sustainable finance, and more recently, on social capital and enabling environments for building scaling pathways for low carbon and climate resilient food systems. Previously, she served as a Science Officer at CCAFS for Latin America and as a Consultant in the National Planning Department (DNP) and in the National Administrative Department of Statistics in Colombia.
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Karen McNAMARA
The University of Queensland
Karen is a Professor in development geography in the School of the Environment at the University of Queensland (Australia). She is ultimately interested in how people experience and can improve their capacities to respond to the triple crises of poverty, disaster risk, and climate change. Over the last 20 years, Karen has been undertaking applied research in resilient livelihoods, non-economic loss and damage, community-based adaptation, human mobility, and gender, in close partnership with governments and NGOs throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Some of her recent advances have included a world-first conceptualisation of loss and damage across the Pacific Islands, an understanding of how climate change is violating people’s human rights, the identification of optimisation points to improve adaptation outcomes, and strategies for supporting women in disaster recovery.
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Godwell NHAMO
University of South Africa
Godwell Nhamo serves as the Exxaro Chair in Climate and Sustainability Transitions and as the Chief Researcher in the Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the University of South Africa. His current work focuses on cyclones and floods in southern Africa. His areas of expertise include climate policy, disaster risk reduction and management, climate resilience, adaptation, and SDGs in low-income countries.
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Venge NYIRONGO
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women)
Venge Nyirongo is Inter-governmental Specialist at UN-Women’s Inter-governmental Support Section working as the organization’s focal point for gender and the Rio Conventions and supports agency-wide work on the gender and climate/environment nexus. He has extensive experience on women’s economic empowerment in the context of sustainable development, having focused on rural development, climate-resilient agriculture, the labour market and women’s land rights; and management of a multi-stakeholder coalition on Economic Justice and Rights – advancing global action on the care economy, decent work and employment, productive resources in the context of a changing climate, and gender-transformative economies – to mobilize for a world where gender equality is a reality and prosperity for all people and planet.
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资料来源: Sandeep Chamling Rai
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Sandeep Chamling RAI
WWF International, Singapore
Sandeep Chamling Rai is the Senior Advisor for the Global Climate Adaptation Policy in the Climate and Energy Practice at WWF International in Singapore. He has significant professional experience on climate change adaptation and loss and damage issues both at the national and global levels. Previously, he served as the Adaptation Policy Coordinator for the Global Climate and Energy Initiative at WWF International, Singapore and as a Member of the Board of Directors for the Climate Action Network International (CAN-I). Prior to that, he served as a Senior Programme Manager at WWF Nepal.
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Gunn-Britt RETTER
UNFCCC Facilitative Working Group of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform
Gunn-Britt Retter is indigenous to Sápmi, the ancestral home of the Sámi in today’s Norway, Finland, Sweden, and north-west Russia. Ms. Retter holds two degrees, one in teaching from the Sámi University of Applied Sciences and another in bilingual studies from the University of Wales. She has combined her academic knowledge with the skills she learnt from her family and community growing up on the land and sea to focus her professional career on incorporating Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge into both research and action related to climate change, biodiversity, language, pollution, and natural resource management. After a four-year period with the Arctic Council’s Indigenous Peoples Secretariat, Ms. Retter has served the Saami Council for 17 years, as the Head of its Arctic and Environmental Unit. Her main role is to coordinate Saami Council’s participation in the Arctic Council, and the UN CBD and the UNFCCC.
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Seyni SALACK
West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL)
Seyni Salack is the Regional Thematic Coordinator of Research in Risks and Vulnerability to Climate Extremes at the West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL). His current work focuses on risks and vulnerability to climate extremes. His areas of expertise include disaster risk reduction and management, climate extremes, operational adaptation, agroclimatology/agrometeorology, near surface observation systems and research in climate science. Previously, he worked as the Coordinator of Observation networks and Seasonal forecasting at WASCAL and prior to that as a Senior Scientist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
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Giuliana Torta
UNFCCC Adaptation Committee
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Irfan ULLAH
UNFCCC Youth Constituency - YOUNGO
Irfan Ullah is a Researcher at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security in Bonn, Germany and is the Founder of Sustainability Week Pakistan. His areas of expertise include climate change adaptation, flood risk assessment, exposure and vulnerability analysis, community mobilization, youth empowerment and development. Previously, he served as the South and Central Asia Regional Focal Point for the United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth (UNMGCY) and prior to that, as a Community Development Officer at the Islamic Relief Pakistan.
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Caroline ZICKGRAF
Hugo Observatory: Environment, Migration, Politics, University of Liège
Caroline Zickgraf is the Deputy Director at the Hugo Observatory for the Environment, Migration and Politics at the University of Liège (Belgium). She is also a Scientific Coordinator of the HABITABLE project (2020-2024), funded by the European Commission, which looks at current and future scenarios of climate change and human mobility in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. She specializes in a range of human mobility issues such as migration, displacement, and immobility drivers, dynamics, and impacts. Previously, she has consulted for the World Bank, the Nansen Initiative, the Green European Foundation (GEF), the International Center for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on the links between climate change and migration.
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Yvonne WALZ
United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security
Dr. Yvonne Walz is the Head of the Environmental Vulnerability and Ecosystem Services (EVES) division of UNU-EHS. She is a geographer by training and has expertise in understanding drivers of risk, identifying ecosystem-based approaches to reduce current and future risks and evaluating adaptation strategies to impacts of climate change. In addition, she conducts research with the specific focus to support countries in monitoring progress towards the implementation of international frameworks and conventions.
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Jerome ILAGAN
Climate Change Commission, Philippines;
Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage
Jerome Ilagan is the Chief Planning Officer of Policy Research and Development division, Climate Change Office in the Climate Change Commission of the Philippines. He represents the Philippines in climate negotiations and is the Focal Point on Loss and Damage matters. His areas of expertise include climate policy and strategy, institutional support, financial resource mobilization, planning and programming, training and development.
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Angela RIVERA GALVIS
Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Colombia;
Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage
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资料来源: Stella Brożek-Everaert
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Stella BROZEK-EVERAERT
International relations officer, Directorate General- Climate Action, European Commission;
Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage
Stella Brożek-Everaert is an international relations officer at the European Commission, Directorate-General for Climate Action, where she works on adaptation to climate change, including loss and damage associated with climate change. Previously, she served as Head of Sector for the European Green Deal and coordinator of the Sustainable Development Observatory of the European Economic and Social Committee.
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Friederike Elisabeth EPPEN
Advisor Climate Policy Support Programme
Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage
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