Speakers

Meet our fantastic UR22 Wellington Satellite speakers.

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Nico Pondard

Nico is a Senior Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Specialist at GNS Science, based in New-Zealand. He has 20 years of...
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Sally Potter

Dr Sally Potter is a social scientist at GNS Science, researching how people respond to forecasts and warnings, and how...
Patrick Pringle

Patrick Pringle

Paddy will begin at Tonkin + Taylor (T+T) in 2023 as a Principal Consultant (Climate Risk and Resilience).  Prior to...
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Sumati Rajput

Sumati Rajput is a Financial Sector Specialist in the Crisis and Disaster Risk Finance team in the World Bank Group....
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Richard Reinen-Hamill

Richard (Sector Director - Natural Hazard Resilience) is a respected industry leader in coastal hazard risk assessments and the effects...
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Wendy Saunders

Dr Wendy Saunders is the Principal Advisor, Risk Reduction & Resilience at Toka Tū Ake EQC, and their Champion of...
Amelia Sharman for the External Reporting Board, Wellington, NZ, August 2022. Photo credit: Stephen A’Court.

Amelia Sharman

Amelia Sharman is Director Sustainability Reporting at the External Reporting Board (XRB), responsible for managing the execution and coordination of...
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Ben Sim

Ben has over ten years of experience on climate change risk assessments and adaptation planning, public financial management, and policy...
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Belinda Storey

Belinda is a Senior Research Fellow at the New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute, where she conducts research on the...
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Smrithi Talwar

Smrithi is an environmental lawyer and social scientist who has worked on a range of issues at the interface of...
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Tui Warmenhoven

Tui Warmenhoven (Ngati Porou, Ngati Uepohatu, Te Whanau a Apanui) is a trained lawyer with an employment background in government,...
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Liam Wotherspoon

Liam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Auckland. He is...
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Nicki Williams

Nicki has worked in the field of planning and environmental management for 30 years and one of her main specialties...