ICDRI 2021- The International Conference on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Ms. Mami Mizutori

Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Prof. Jim W. Hall

Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks, University of Oxford

Mr. Kamal Kishore

Member, India’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and Indian Co-chair of CDRI’s Executive Committee

Ms. Paola Albrito

Chief of Branch for the Intergovernmental Processes, Interagency Cooperation and Partnership,UNDRR

Ms. Lauren Anders Brown

Global Health Film Producer

Mr. Haward Wells

Director of the National Integrated Planning and Programme Unit

Dr. Roberto Rudari

CIMA Research Foundation

Mr. Hans-Peter Teufers

Director, International Programs, The UPS Foundation

Dr.Arunabha Ghosh

Founder - CEO, Council on Energy, Environment and Water(CEEW)

Ms. Olga Pleumeekers

Director, Nelen and Schuurmans

Dr. Omar-Dario Cardona

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Mr. Sanjaya Bhatia

Head of Office UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Global Education and Training Institute (GETI)

Dr. Kayla Laserson

Deputy Director, Infectious Diseases, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Mr. Sandeep Poundrik

Director General, CDRI

Mr. Carlos Sanchez

Executive Director, CCRI and Climate Resilience Investment Director at Willis Towers Watson

Mr. Pankaj Jain

Additional Secretary | Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, Government of India

Mr. Abhishek Poddar

Managing Director | Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA), Macquarie Group.

Ms. Elizabeth Petheo

Asia Pacific Regional Representative & Principal Miyamoto International, Inc.

Dr. Krishna S.Vatsa

Member, National Disaster Management Authority

Mr. John J. Haley

Chief Executive Officer, Director of Willis Towers Watson

Dr. John Murton

UK Government COP26 Envoy

Dr. Gabriel Bernal

Chief Scientific Officer, INGENIAR

Prof. Banny Banerjee

Director and Founder, Stanford ChangeLabs

Ms. Kelly Christodoulou

Senior Consultant, AustralianSuper

Dr. Tina Comes

Scientific Director, 4TU Resilience Engineering, Associate Professor, TU Delft

Mr. Amir Dinur

CEO, Seismic AI, ISRAEL, Winner of TechEmerge innovation by the World Bank 2021

Ms. Jacqueline Hood

Highways Market Director, Amey Consulting, UK

Mr. Deryck Omar

Chief Executive Officer, CARICOM Regional Organization for Standards and Quality, CROSQ

Dr. Janise Rodgers

Chief Operating Officer, GeoHazards International

Mr. Michael Ridley

Senior Responsible Investment Specialist, HSBC

Mr. Andrew Maskrey

Founder, Risk Nexus Initiative

Dr. Margreet van Marle

Researcher Climate Resilience and Wildfires, Deltares

Ms. Frederique de Groen

Junior Advisor/Researcher Data Science and Disaster Impact Assessment, Deltares

Ms. Katrin Bruebach

Global Director Programs, Innovation & Impact, R-Cities

Ms. Sacha Stolp

Director of innovation for Future Proof Assets, City of Amsterdam

Mr. David Jácome Polit

Municipality of Quito / Resilient Cities Network

Mr. Amit Prothi

Regional Director, Regional Director, APAC, Resilient Cities Network

Ms. Aruna Pidikiti

‎Senior Vice president, Network operations Head, Bharti Airtel Limited

Mr. Mimura Satoru

‎Advisor, Global Environment Department, Japan International Cooperation Agency- JICA

Dr. Garmalia Mentor-William

‎Haiti Representative, GeoHazards International (GHI)

Mr. Abhilash Panda

Head of Infrastructure Resilience United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

Prof. Anand Patwardhan

School of Public Policy, University of Maryland

Dr. Juliet Mian

Associate Director, Infrastrucure Advisory, and Deputy Exec. Director at the Resilience Shift

Mr. Ayaz Parvez

Lead DRM Specialist, GFDRR (WB), Washington DC

Mr. Kaushlendra Tripathi

Director - Power & Utilities, PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt. Ltd.

Prof. Aromar Revi

Director of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS)

Ms. Gloria Steele

Acting Administrator, USAID

Mr. Ronald Jackson

Head, Disaster Risk Reduction & Recovery for Building Resilience Crisis Bureau, UNDP

Mr. Satoshi Sasakura

Executive Manager (Disaster Countermeasures Office Manager), Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation Network Business Headquarters

Mr. Brad Morell

Senior Advisor for Network, Technology, Operations and International Engagement

Mr. Philippe Lorec

Advisor to the General Secretariat of Ministry of Environment, Government of France

Ms. Vanessa Gray

Head of the Environment and Emergency Telecommunications Division,Telecommunication Development Bureau, International Telecommunication Union

Prof. Simon Pietro Romano

Professor of Computer Networks, University of Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

Mr. Jagan Shah

Senior Infrastructure Adviser, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

H.E. Mr. Satoshi SUZUKI

Ambassador of Japan to India

Mr. Manuel de Araujo

Mayor, Quelimane Municipality, Mozambique

H.E. Mr. Alex Ellis

British High Commissioner to India

Mr. Isaac Anthony

CEO, CCRIF SPC

Ms. Rachel Turner

Director, International Finance at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Mr. Achim Steiner

Administrator, United Nations Development Programme

Prof. Osvaldo Luiz Leal de Moraes

National Centre for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters (CEMADEN), Under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation

H.E. Mr. Ugo Astuto

Ambassador of the European Union to India

Ms. Liza Silerio

UNDRR ARISE Global Board Member and SM Prime, Philippines

Ms. Vasiti Soko

Director – National Disaster Management Office, Fiji

Mr. Rob Jauncey

Chief Investment Officer for the Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for the Pacific (AIFFP)

Ms. Noelle O’Brien

Principal Climate Change Specialist in ADB’s Pacific Department

Ms. Barbara Riksen

Team Leader, Economic Cooperation, Investment and Agriculture, EU Delegation for the Pacific

Ms. Andria Grosvenor

Deputy Executive Director, CDEMA coordinating unit.

Mr. Daniel Best

Director Projects, Caribbean Development Bank