Speakers & Experts

Mr. Nitin Jairam Gadkari

Union Cabinet Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Government of India

Dr. Jitendra Singh

Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Science & Technology and Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India

Prof. Celeste Saulo

Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Switzerland

Dr. Qu Dongyu

Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Italy

Prof. Tshilidzi Marwala

Rector & UN Under-Secretary-General, United Nations University (UNU), Japan

Mr. Kamal Kishore

Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction & Assistant Secretary-General, UNDRR, Switzerland

Dr. Lidia Brito

Assistant Director-General, Priority Africa & External Relations, UNESCO, France

Dr. Yuki Matsuoka

Head of Office, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), Japan

Mr. Soichiro Yasukawa

Chief, Disaster Risk Reduction Unit, UNESCO Natural Sciences Sector, France

Dr. Srinivasa Kumar Tummala

Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India

Dr. Krishna Vatsa

Member & Head of Department, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), India

Shri Madhup Vyas

Executive Director, National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), India

Dr. Saibal Ghosh

Additional Director General (ADG), Geological Survey of India (GSI)

Dr. Bhupender Singh Negi

Director, National Landslide Forecasting Centre (NLFC), India

Dr. Amir Ali Khan

Professor, National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), India

Dr. Kyoji Sassa

Secretary-General, International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) / Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020 (KLC2020), Japan

Dr. Matjaž Mikoš

Chair, GPC/IPL-KLC; President, Slovenian Academy of Engineering; Professor, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Dr. Virendra M. Tiwari

Bureau Member, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG); Vice-President, Geological Society of India; J. C. Bose National Fellow, India

Dr. Fausto Guzzetti

Professor of Hazard and Risk, Durham University, United Kingdom

Prof. Bruce D. Malamud

Wilson Chair of Hazard and Risk, Durham University, United Kingdom

Dr. Michel Jaboyedoff

Professor, University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland

Dr. Binod Tiwari

Chief Research Officer & Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, California State University, Fullerton, USA

Prof. Cees J. van Westen

Full Professor, Multi-Hazard Risk Dynamics, University of Twente, Netherlands

Dr. Thom Bogaard

Full Professor of Hydrology & Geomorphology, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Prof. Wenwen Li

Professor, Arizona State University, USA

Dr. Irasema Alcántara-Ayala

Professor, Institute of Geography, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

Dr. Biljana Abolmasov

Full Professor, Faculty of Mining and Geology, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Dr. Željko Arbanas

Full Professor, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka, Croatia

Dr. Faisal Fathani

Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia

Dr. Xuanmei Fan

Professor, State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention, Chengdu University of Technology, China

Dr. Chih-Chung Chung

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, National Central University, Chinese Taipei

Dr. Sabatino Cuomo

Professor of Geotechnical Engineering, University of Salerno, Italy

Dr. Mario Parise

Associate Professor of Applied Geology, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy

Dr. Veronica Tofani

Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence, Italy

Dr. S. S. Chandrasekaran 

Professor, School of Civil Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, India

Dr. Ashok Dahal

Assistant Professor, Applied Earth Sciences, University of Twente, Netherlands

Dr. Vinita Sharma

Assistant Professor, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University, USA

Dr. Daniel P. Johnson

Associate Professor of Geography & Director of Academic Research, The Polis Center, Indiana University, USA

Dr. Stephen L. Boehm

Professor of Psychology & Executive Director, IU Institute for Human Health and Wellbeing, Indiana University, USA

Dr. Beena Ajmera

Assistant Professor, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University, USA

Dr. Jan Klimeš

Senior Researcher, Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Dr. Jonathan Chambers

Team Leader & Geophysical Researcher, British Geological Survey, United Kingdom

Dr. David Huntley

Research Scientist, Geological Survey of Canada, Canada

Dr. Shinji Sassa

Head of Soil Dynamics Group, National Institute of Maritime, Port and Aviation Technology, Japan

Dr. Paola Salvati

Senior Research Scientist, CNR – Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection (IRPI), Italy

Dr. Maria Teresa Brunetti

Senior Research Scientist, CNR – Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources (IGG), Italy

Dr. Massimiliano Alvioli

Senior Researcher, CNR – Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection (IRPI), Italy

Dr. Massimo Melillo

Research Scientist, CNR – Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources (IGG), Italy

Dr. Oriol Monserrat

Senior Research Scientist, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain

Dr. Rajat Shinde

Computer Scientist, NASA IMPACT Program, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA

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    The 7th World Landslide Forum (WLF7) will be held at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (University), Faridabad, India, from 22–27 November 2026 (with pre-conference workshops on 22 November).


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