Plenary Speaker

Peter Amos is the Managing Director of Damwatch Engineering Limited, a specialist consulting dam engineering and dam safety company based in New Zealand.  He is a Principal Civil Engineer with 34 years of experience in several countries, specialising in dams and heavy civil engineering, with specific experience in structural and seismic engineering together with dam…

Shaun Awatere (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Uepohatu) has been active supporting Māori manage collective assets in a more sustainable manner consistent with the kaupapa-Māori principles of kaitiekitanga, manaakitanga and whakatipu rawa. He is currently engaged in research and policy to help prepare iwi/hapū Māori for climate change mitigation and adaptation planning. Shaun and a team of…

Currently Interim Chief Executive (interim), Peter re-joined GNS Science in October 2018 as General Manager, Science. He is responsible for the leadership and management of our research teams, as well as the quality and performance of our research projects and geohazard monitoring activities.

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…

Emily Campbell (Ngāti Porou, Ngāi Haina) is the Pou Whakamahere Kaupapa Here l Tikanga Māori Planner at Hutt City Council in Te Whanganui-a-Tara and a research consultant. Her work explores the intersection of planning and design concepts, and te ao Māori across the areas of resource management, disaster risk reduction and climate change to deliver…

A/Prof. Nguyen Canh Thai graduated Civil Engineering and started working at Thuyloi University in 1987 as a faculty lecturer of Hydraulic Structural Engineering Department. He completed MSc and then PhD in 2000 from Kyoto University, Japan. In 2013 he was appointed as Vice President of Thuyloi University in charge of science and technology and international…

Ms. Shannen Chua is a Treasury Operations Officer under the Capital Market Strategy and Planning Division of the Bureau of the Treasury. She leads the design and implementation of the Philippines’ various disaster risk financing and insurance programs. She spearheads the BTr’s risk analysis initiative using GIS (Geographic Information System) to better quantify and qualify…

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…

Apoorv Dabral (Senior Vice President) is the Head of Public Sector for Asia-Pac based in Guy Carpenter’s Singapore office. In his current role, he is responsible for leading the Guy carpenter’s public sector projects and initiatives in the region. Before moving into this role, he was a member of GC analytics team, specifically looking into…