Archive for October 2022

Jackie Bubb is the Director Domestic Operations at New Zealand Red Cross for the Emergency Management and International team.  For the past three years she has led Red Cross people to prepare and respond to emergencies across Aotearoa. She has experience in emergency management and disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the Pacific and Aotearoa. Jackie…

Nadia is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Co-Director of the Migrant and Refugee Health Research Center at the Auckland University of Technology. She specialises in qualitative and participatory research methodologies. Her research focuses on reducing health inequities faced by migrant and refugee populations.

Patrina Dumaru is a Senior Social Scientist at the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Science (GNS) where she is engaged in research on the wellbeing impacts of resilience investments in New Zealand, Pasifika youth perceptions of risk and resilience and climate resilient development and mobility in the Pacific. She has led applied research on adaptation…

Tim Grafton became Chief Executive of the Insurance Council of New Zealand Te Kāhui Inihua o Aotearoa (ICNZ) in November 2012 and a member of the executive board of the Global Federation of Insurance Associations. Tim has extensive experience in providing strategic, policy and communications advice to public and private sector leaders and was an adviser to…

Loïc is a Senior Lecturer at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) where he coordinates the Master of Disaster Risk Management and Development. Loïc’s interest lies in bridging the knowledge and action gaps between local people and agencies involved in disaster risk management. His work focuses on developing participatory approaches and tools for disaster risk management,…

Jay is a professor of social work at the University of Auckland and co-director of the Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies.  As a forced migration scholar, he has published more than 80 papers related to disaster risk reduction, use of digital communication technologies and the experiences of everyday settlement. He is a current Rutherford…

Dr Garry McDonald is a founding Director of MEResearch, a private research company employing 25 people.  Garry and his team have developed long-standing relationships with many organisations and have an extensive client base including major private sector companies, infrastructure providers, government agencies, research institutes, and universities. Over the last 20 years, he has led many…

Ilan is the Chair in the Economics of Disasters and Climate Change – Te Āwhionukurangi, at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. His research and teaching focus on the economic aspects of natural hazards, disasters, and climate change, and other related topics in environmental, development, and international economics. He is also the founding Editor-in-Chief of…

Dr Wendy Saunders is the Principal Advisor, Risk Reduction & Resilience at Toka Tū Ake EQC, and their Champion of Land Use Planning.  Wendy’s focus is on improving how we make land use planning decisions for natural hazard and climate related risks, and is currently seconded to Ministry for the Environment to assist in the development…

Amelia Sharman is Director Sustainability Reporting at the External Reporting Board (XRB), responsible for managing the execution and coordination of the climate-related disclosure framework for Aotearoa New Zealand, as well as the XRB’s wider sustainability reporting work programme. She has held a range of project and policy roles across the public and private sectors in…