Aditya Rahul
Climate change and disaster risk
consultant, Ernst & Young,Gurugram, India

Dr. Aditya Rahul is a climate change and disaster risk
consultant at Ernst & Young, with doctorate in climate scienceand overall 10+ years of experience working in the domain
ranging from climate modelling, risk assessment, pre-disasterplanning, and capacity building to evaluating resiliencebuilding solutions. He is highly equipped with skillsets tostrengthen resilience against climate change and disaster risks
through sustainable strategic interventions, including naturebased solutions.
He received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology
Roorkee, India, in 2021, and his Master of Architecture in 2014.
He has undertaken various projects in the domain of climatechange resilience and has 9 publications in the field of climatechange and disaster resilience.

Shobha Poudel
Marie Curie Research Fellow,
Fondazione Eni Enrico
Mattei, Italy

Dr. Shobha Poudel completed her PhD in Global Environmental
Studies from Kyoto University, Japan. She has several years ofinterdisciplinary research experience in Climate change adaptation,
Vulnerability and risk assessment, Agriculture and Food security,
Disaster risk management and Environmental Economics, PublicPolicy. She has won several international prestigious researchawards. Recently, she has been awarded Marie Curie Postdoctoral
Research Fellow 2021 by European Commission under HORIZON
program. Furthermore, she was granted a collaborative research
grant from the Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Researchawarded to contribute to impactful research efforts work in South
Asia. She is also a recipient of Early Career Women Scientists
Fellowship 2018 from Organization for Women in Science for theDeveloping World (OWSD), UNESCO. She is also a ContributingAuthor, Chapter 10 (Working Group II) of IPCC AR6 and has also
served as Thematic Lead for Climate Resilience at USAID Biodiversity.
She has published several research papers including policy briefs
and book chapters as well as she voluntarily reviews scientificarticles in number of reputed journals.

Iuliana Armas
Head of the Doctoral School ofGeography and of the Disaster
Management Master Program andcoordinates the Risk Research Center,the University of Bucharest

Prof. Dr. Iuliana Armas obtained a BSc in Geography, a BScin Psychology, and her PhD (Geography) from the Universityof Bucharest. She has over twenty years of research andteaching experience in natural hazards, social vulnerability,risk assessment, and risk perception. She is the Head of theDoctoral School of Geography and of the Disaster
Management Master Program and coordinates the Risk
Research Center at the University of Bucharest. She lecturesnatural hazards, spatial risk analysis, physical geography,
and risk perception at the University of Bucharest. Her areaof interest is vulnerability assessments, multi-hazards andrisks, risk perception, and geomorphic evolution of fluvial
landscapes. She has published various papers in peerreviewed journals.

Marius Dogeanu
Head of the Directorate-General for Civil
Protection of the Department ofEmergency Situations/ Ministry of Home
Affairs of Romania

MariusDogeanu–anelectronicengineer

withpost-graduate

specializations in public communication and relations and civil protection,
has over 20 years of experience in civil protection at both national andinternational level, currently acting as head of the Directorate-General for
Civil Protection of the Department of Emergency Situations/ Ministry ofHome Affairs of Romania.
The knowledge and experience gained during this period in the field of
disaster preparedness, prevention and response has been the basis for its
selection as a NATO expert on the disaster need assistance, or as Team
leader of the European Civil Protection team to support the nationalauthorities of the Philippines, Haiti or Mozambique in managing theconsequences of typhoon disasters such as Haiyan, Matthew or Idai, ordesignation by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as a member of theAdvisory Board of Central Emergency Response Found (CERF).
Has contributed since 2001 to the strengthening of the European Civil
Protection Mechanism by actively participating both in the setting thelegal framework by providing on a temporary basis the Presidency of theEU Council Working Party in Civil Protection, but also practical ones,
including the evolution of the European civil protection training systemthrough courses and exercises, coordinating over the last 5 years at the EU
level the field exercises with civil protection teams specialized in flood
response, forest fires and more.

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