Speakers
Meet our fantastic UR22 Wellington Satellite speakers.
Peter Amos
Peter Amos is the Managing Director of Damwatch Engineering Limited, a specialist consulting dam engineering and dam safety company based...
Shaun Awatere
Shaun Awatere (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Uepohatu) has been active supporting Māori manage collective assets in a more sustainable manner consistent...
Peter Benfell
Currently Interim Chief Executive (interim), Peter re-joined GNS Science in October 2018 as General Manager, Science. He is responsible for...
Jackie Bubb
Jackie Bubb is the Director Domestic Operations at New Zealand Red Cross for the Emergency Management and International team. For...
Emily Campbell
Emily Campbell (Ngāti Porou, Ngāi Haina) is the Pou Whakamahere Kaupapa Here l Tikanga Māori Planner at Hutt City Council...
Nguyen Canh Thai
A/Prof. Nguyen Canh Thai graduated Civil Engineering and started working at Thuyloi University in 1987 as a faculty lecturer of...
Shannen Nicole Chua
Ms. Shannen Chua is a Treasury Operations Officer under the Capital Market Strategy and Planning Division of the Bureau of...
Nadia Charania
Nadia is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Co-Director of the Migrant and Refugee Health Research Center at the...
Patrina Dumaru
Patrina Dumaru is a Senior Social Scientist at the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Science (GNS) where she is engaged...
Apoorv Dabral
Apoorv Dabral (Senior Vice President) is the Head of Public Sector for Asia-Pac based in Guy Carpenter’s Singapore office. In...
Bapon Fakhruddin
Dr Bapon Fakhruddin (Technical Director - DRR and Climate Resilience), is an international climate change and disaster risk reduction expert....
Greg Fowler
Greg has over 35 years’ experience in the risk financing industry. As an insurance broker and risk consultant, he has...
Tim Grafton
Tim Grafton became Chief Executive of the Insurance Council of New Zealand Te Kāhui Inihua o Aotearoa (ICNZ) in November 2012 and...
Soo Hoon Hauw-Quek
Southeast Asia Disaster Risk Insurance Facility (SEADRIF) is an ASEAN+3 (Japan, People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Korea)...
Dan Hikuroa
Dan Hikuroa (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato-Tainui/ Ngaati Whanaunga) employs Earth Systems/Environmental Humanities approaches in his work at Waipapa Taumata Rau/University of...
John Hopkins
John Hopkins is a Professor of Comparative Public Law who specialises in Disaster Law and Governance. He is the Director...
Nick Horspool
Nick Horspool is a Senior Risk Scientist at GNS Science, a New Zealand Crown Research Institute. Nick has 15 years...
Annie Huang
Annie is a Research Assistant at the Ngāi Tahu Research Centre based at the University of Canterbury. Her research interests...
David Johnston
David Johnston is the Professor of Disaster Management and Director of the Joint Centre for Disaster Research, in the School...
Gill Jolly
Gill is a volcanologist from the UK and after researching magma physics for her PhD, she started work at the...
Karl Jones
Karl leads Guy Carpenter’s Global Strategic Advisory group in Asia-Pacific, which includes our Catastrophe, Actuarial and Advisory analytical teams. He...
Jolanta Kryspin-Watson
Jolanta Kryspin-Watson is Lead Disaster Risk Management Specialist and Regional DRM Coordinator for East Asia and the Pacific at the...
Loïc Le De
Loïc is a Senior Lecturer at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) where he coordinates the Master of Disaster Risk Management...
Jay Marlowe
Jay is a professor of social work at the University of Auckland and co-director of the Centre for Asia Pacific...
Sarah-Jayne McCurrach
Sarah-Jayne McCurrach is the Head of Risk Reduction and Resilience at Toka Tū Ake EQC, having previously led numerous successful...
Garry McDonald
Dr Garry McDonald is a founding Director of MEResearch, a private research company employing 25 people. Garry and his team...
Scott McHardy
Scott is the Head of Risk Financing at the Toka Tū Ake EQC. Over the past three years Scott has...
Filomena Nelson
Filomena Nelson is the Climate Change Adaptation Adviser at the Secretariat of the Regional Environment Programme since October 2017. Prior...
