Julie Arrighi is a manager at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, a global reference centre supporting the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement in the areas of climate science, policy and practice. Julie manages the Climate Centre's teams that are focused on extreme event attribution, urban adaptation and social protection. She also has a joint position with the American Red Cross as Innovation Advisor for their international services. Julie has a master's degree in Climate and Society from Columbia University.
Aditi Bhonagiri works as a research consultant and digital media producer with IDS on projects focused on issues of gender, environment, agriculture, social and political movements. She holds an MA in Development Studies (IDS, University of Sussex), a graduate diploma in International Relations (London School of Economics and Political Science), and a BA in Public Communications and the Media Arts (University of Technology, Sydney). Her recent work includes co-producing an online learning module on Health, Environment and Development to strengthen health research across Africa and Asia; and authoring a topic guide on Social Movements aimed at UK's Department for International Development (DFID) officials.
Cecilia Costella is Senior Technical Advisor at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre. She is a social protection specialist, focused on the integration of social protection with disaster and climate risk management approaches. She has advised governments and international organisations in Africa and Latin America on social protection policy and programme design and implementation, and worked on global analytical projects in this area. She has previously worked with the World Bank and the United Nations World Food Programme. She holds a master's degree in Public Administration (University of the Western Cape) and an MA in Development Management (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).
Erin Coughlan de Perez is the manager of the Climate Science Team at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre. She has pioneered research that links extreme climate events with preventative action in the humanitarian and development sectors. A trained climate scientist, Erin's research focuses on forecast verification for extreme events, risk management, and evaluation of forecast-based risk management actions. Erin teaches at Columbia University, and is the liaison with the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI). She has a master's degree in Climate and Society (Columbia University) and is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam.
Siri Eriksen is Professor at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Faculty of Landscape and Society, at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), and project leader of 'Courting Catastrophe? Humanitarian Policy and Practice in a Changing Climate'. Her PhD is within the field of social vulnerability to climate change (University of East Anglia, UK, 2001). Her research focuses on the politics of climate change adaptation; biodiversity and natural resources in local adaptation strategies; and the links between vulnerability, poverty and sustainable development. She was a lead author in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (2014), and has conducted extensive field research in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Norway.
Ruth Haug is Professor of Development Studies at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Faculty of Landscape and Society, at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). She received her PhD from the University of Maryland and began her professional career working nationally and internationally within the field of rural development. At NMBU, Ruth was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (2008–13), and prior to that she headed Noragric for seven years. Her field of expertise is within agro-food systems; rural livelihoods, institutional and policy change; humanitarian actions; and long-term development.
Øivind Hetland is currently Senior Advisor for Disaster Risk Management at the Norwegian Red Cross (RC) international department specialising in areas of disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and disaster preparedness. He has previously worked in various capacities for the Norwegian RC in East Africa, as well as in Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands. He has a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Oslo specialising in development and political geography with a particular focus on decentralisation and democratisation in West Africa.
Catalina Jaime is the Forecast-based Financing (FbF) coordinator at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, developing synergies within the Red Cross Movement and with external partners and supporting technically the implementation of FbF projects. Catalina has over a decade of experience in disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and humanitarian coordination and operations with the Red Cross movement and various UN agencies. Catalina has a master's degree in International Humanitarian Action from the University of Deusto and Uppsala University and a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering.
Lutgart Lenaerts is a postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Faculty of Landscape and Society, at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), and was project leader of the 'Courting Catastrophe? Humanitarian Policy and Practice in a Changing Climate' project while Siri Eriksen was on leave during 2015–16. She received her PhD from the University of Leuven (Belgium) and has a background in land and forest management as well as cultures and development studies. She has conducted extensive field research in Ethiopia.
Andrei Florin Marin is a researcher at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Faculty of Landscape and Society, at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). He has a PhD in Human Geography. During the last ten years, his work has focused on vulnerability and adaptation to climate change among pastoralists and peasants in Mongolia, Norway and Kenya. He employs perspectives from political ecology, critical institutionalism and globalisation studies to explain the social and environmental contexts in which people adapt to climate change.
Marianne Mosberg has an interdisciplinary academic background within international development and environment studies, with degrees from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and the University of Oslo. Her research and studies have primarily focused on issues related to climate change vulnerability and adaptation, humanitarian policy and practice, solar energy, power relations and marginalisation processes in developing country contexts. Marianne is currently working as consultant for the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and the Norwegian Red Cross, and she has relevant work experience from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the University of Oslo, Bjorknes College and the Future in Our Hands.
Lars Otto Naess is a Research Fellow at IDS. He is a social scientist and has worked on climate change, development and agriculture over the past 20 years. His current research interests are the political and institutional dimensions of climate change and development, the role of local knowledge for adaptation to climate change, and adaptation planning in the context of international development cooperation. Previous affiliations include the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo (CICERO), the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Sigrid Nagoda is Senior Adviser in the Department for Climate, Energy and Environment in the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), and has a PhD in Development Studies. Until December 2016 she was a researcher at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Faculty of Landscape and Society, at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). She has broad experience working for humanitarian and development organisations in Africa, Asia and Latin America with a special focus on food security, good governance and rehabilitation efforts. In her research, she is particularly interested in how policy processes influence, and are influenced by, local-level vulnerability patterns. Based on extensive fieldwork in northwestern Nepal, she has investigated the effects of climate change adaptation policies on food security and differential vulnerability among rural households.
Bahadar Nawab is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Development Studies at the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Abbottabad, Pakistan where he also heads the newly established High Mountain Research Centre. Bahadar has an interdisciplinary academic background majoring in Environment and Development Studies. His core areas of specialisation are institutions and policy analysis, water supply and sanitation, post‑crises development, climate change adaptation and conflict, peace and development. Bahadar has completed and is currently pursuing several national and international research and education programmes in the above mentioned specialisms.
Ingrid Nyborg is Associate Professor in Development Studies at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Faculty of Landscape and Society, at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). Her research includes resource management, post-conflict/crisis development, human security, and humanitarian policy and climate change, and her field experience spans Africa and South Asia. She is particularly interested in participatory approaches to research and development, and regularly conducts research with development practitioners, building networks between researchers, practitioners and policymakers. She is currently heading a Horizon 2020 research project on Community-based Policing in Post-Conflict Police Reform, where her focus is mainly on gender, security and development in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Elvin Nyukuri is a researcher in climate change adaptation, land policy and gender spaces within environmental governance. Her research has focused on climate change attribution and communication, compatibility and development, democracy and climate change governance, climate adaptation funds initiatives, humanitarian policy and practice, and planning for climate change. She is also a Lecturer at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Environmental Law and Policy (CASELAP), University of Nairobi, and a programme committee member of the Leading Integrated Research Agenda for Africa, 2030. She is a reviewer of the Climate Impacts Research Capacity and Leadership Enhancement programme (CIRCLE), the Department for International Development (DFID).
Pablo Suarez is Associate Director for research and innovation at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, as well as visiting Fellow at Boston University, and honorary senior lecturer at University College London. He has consulted for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Food Programme, the World Bank, Oxfam America, and many other international humanitarian and development organisations, working in more than 60 countries. His current work addresses institutional integration across disciplines and geographic scales, and financial tools for integrating forecasts into existing disaster management mechanisms. Pablo holds a master's degree in Planning, and a PhD in Geography.
Maarten van Aalst is Director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, the global reference centre for the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. He previously worked on climate and disaster risk management with the World Bank and several other development banks, international organisations and government departments. In 2016, Maarten was appointed by Ban Ki Moon to the Leadership Group of the UN Secretary General's Climate Resilience Initiative (A2R). He has also been Coordinating Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He has a PhD in Atmospheric Science (Utrecht University in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz).
Bjørn K.G. Wold established the Division of Development Cooperation in Statistics Norway (SSB) in 1994, served as head until 2012 and is now a senior adviser. He has worked and written on statistical methods and household survey analysis, with a special focus on poverty and agriculture, mainly in African countries including Malawi. He has also designed and analysed surveys for the Millennium Development Goals and now on the Sustainable Development Indicators. He is an elected member of the global International Statistical Institute and has served as a consultant on statistical and survey analysis issues for the last 30 years.