Ruben BASANTES

Associate Professor, Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam

Rubén Basantes Serrano currently works as an Assistant Professor at the Earth and Water Science Faculty at the Universidad regional Amazónica Ikiam in Ecuador. He collaborates with international research groups such as the GLACIOCLIM monitoring program (France), INAIGEM (Peru), UMSA (Bolivia), UAF and UAH (US). His areas of expertise include glaciology, remote sensing, risk assessment, and understanding climate through the glacier response in the Andes region. Previously, he served as a climate risk and adaptation Advisor to the Government of Ecuador, as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centro de Estudios Cientìficos (CECS), Glaciology Lab in Chile and as a Research Assistant at the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS).

Bettina KOELLE

Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

Bettina Koelle is a Senior Knowledge and Learning Specialist with the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre. She has 20 years of experience in facilitating community-based development and adaptation and in policy-related research and discourse both in South Africa and globally. She is a Contributing Author to the current draft of the IPCC 6^th Assessment Report and is a member of the Adaptation Fund NGO network. Previously, she served as Senior Technical Advisor at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre and has also contributed to the IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (IPCC SREX). She has also served on the South African Steering Committee of the National Implementing Entity (NIE) for the Adaptation Fund as well as on the Project Advisory Committee for the NIE’s Community Adaptation Small Grants Facility Project.

Musonda MUMBA

Rome Centre for Sustainable Development

Musonda Mumba is the Director of the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Rome Centre for Sustainable Development. She is also the outgoing Chair of the Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration (GPFLR) and Vice-Chair of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF). She has over 25 years of experience working at both scientific and political levels on issues related to climate change adaptation, conservation, protected areas management and wetlands ecology. Previously, she served as the Chief of the Terrestrial Ecosystems Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and as UNEP’s Focal Point on Mountains.

Jaroslav MYSIAK

Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change

Jaroslav Mysiak currently serves as Senior Scientist and Research Director at the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change. His research focuses on risk assessment and governance, including behavioural responses to risks and risk-reduction measures, risk perception and transformational social change, environmental economics, sustainable finance, climate adaptation and services. Previously, he served as a Senior Scientist at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.

Parashram Jakappa PATIL

Nehru Museum Memorial and Library, Ministry of Culture, Government of India

Parashram Patil is a Fellow at the Nehru Museum Memorial and Library, Ministry of Culture of the Government of India in New Delhi. His areas of expertise include agriculture economics, forest accounting, and climate change. Previously, he has served as a Consultant in the Asian Development Bank, at Startup India and with the Government of India.

Albert SALAMANCA

Stockholm Environment Institute – Asia Centre

Albert Salamanca is a Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute’s Asia Centre where he leads the Climate Change, Disasters and Development cluster. He has over 15 years of experience working on climate change adaptation, natural resource management, conservation, development, and sustainable livelihoods issues in several countries in Southeast Asia. Previously, he served as a Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute - Asia Centre.

Akhilesh SURJAN

Charles Darwin University, Australia

Akhilesh Surjan is an Associate Professor and Research and Theme Leader at the Humanitarian, Emergency and Disaster Management Studies Program at the Charles Darwin University in Australia. His areas of expertise include disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation (in human settlements), urban sustainability (urban resilience, local governance, sustainable consumption and waste reduction). Previously, he served as Associate Professor in the Inter-Graduate School Program for Sustainable Development and Survivable Societies at the Kyoto University in Japan. He was also a Lead Author of the IPCC 5^th Assessment Report and Contributing Author of the United Nations Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction.

Faisal Mohammed ALSWIED

Acting director-general running the Climate affairs, Ministry of Energy, Saudi Arabia

Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage

Camila Minerva RODRIGUEZ TAVAREZ

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

Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage

Penehuro Fatu LEFALE

Government of Tokelau/New Zealand

Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage

Penehuro Lefale serves as a Senior Climate Advisor in the Government of Tokelau/New Zealand and is the Director and Climate Analyst at LeA International. His areas of expertise are climate science, climate policy, indigenous ecological knowledge, international environmental legal studies and policy. Previously, he served as an International Climate and Policy Analyst at Bodeker Scientific and as the Pacific Manager at the National Weather Service in Wellington, New Zealand.

Frode NEERGAARD

Chief Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage