Ruben BASANTES

Associate Professor, Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam

Ruben Basantes’ research focuses on understanding climate through glacier response in the Andes region. He also studies the Amazonian influence on the behavior of glaciers in the inner tropics. Ruben collaborates with the GLACIOCLIM monitoring program (France), the research teams of INAIGEM (Peru), and UMSA (Bolivia).

Bettina KOELLE

Senior Learning Specialist, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

Bettina Koelle is a Senior Knowledge and Learning Specialist with the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre. She is a geographer who has been facilitating community-based development and adaptation for the past 20 years whilst also engaging in policy-related research and discourse both in South Africa and internationally.

Musonda MUMBA

Director, Rome Centre for Sustainable Development Nature

Musonda Mumba is the Chief of the Terrestrial Ecosystems Unit with over 20 years of experience working at both scientific and political levels on climate change adaptation, conservation, protected areas management and wetlands ecology. She has also been UN Environment’s focal point on Mountains.

Jaroslav MYSIAK

Director, Research Division, Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change

Jaroslav Mysiak’s 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.

Parashram Jakappa PATIL

Agricultural and Natural Resources Economist, Asian Development Bank

Dr Parashram Patil is an international expert in the field of agriculture and natural resources economics. He has professional work experience in forest accounting, biodiversity loss, forest and land economics, desertification, natural resources valuations, ecosystem services, sustainable development and agriculture economics.

Albert SALAMANCA

Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute

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 resources management, conservation, development, and sustainable livelihoods issues in several countries in Southeast Asia.

Akhilesh SURJAN

Associate Professor, Charles Darwin University

Dr Surjan was a Lead Author of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report and Contributing Author of the UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. Under UNDP's Disaster Risk Management Program, he also facilitated mainstreaming of community-based disaster preparedness concepts in the Indian Government's policy, planning and implementation.

Jerome ILAGAN

Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage

Jerome Ilagan represents the Philippines in climate negotiations and is the Focal Point on Loss and Damage matters. He shepherds the implementation of Philippine NDC and the development of the Philippine NAP while heading the Secretariat of the Climate Change Commission’s National Panel of Technical Experts. Dr. Ilagan also steers the implementation of the National Climate Risk Management Framework.

Muhammad Imran KHAN

Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage

Penehuro Fatu LEFALE

Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage

Malcolm RIDOUT

Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage

Malcolm Ridout is responsible for Adaptation and Loss and Damage climate negotiations for the incoming UK presidency of the UNFCCC. He is also a technical adviser for the UK’s International Development department on livelihoods and climate change. Previously, he worked with NGOs and the UN, leading the development and humanitarian relief programmes in Africa and Asia.