Government of India & National Disaster Management Institutions

Dr. Jitendra Singh

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

Dr. Srinivasa Kumar Tummala

Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India, 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. Bhupender Singh Negi

Director, National Landslide Forecasting Centre (NLFC)

Dr. Amir Ali Khan

Professor, National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM)

United Nations & UN Agencies

Prof. Tshilidzi Marwala

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

Kamal Kishore

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

Prof. Celeste Saulo

Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Qu Dongyu

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

Lidia Brito

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

Dr. Yuki Matsuoka

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

Soichiro Yasukawa

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

International Landslide & Scientific Organisations

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, IUGG; Vice President, Geological Society of India; JC Bose National Fellow, India

Universities & Academic Research Institutions

Dr. Michel Jaboyedoff

Professor, University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland

Dr. Binod Tiwari

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

Prof. Cees J. van Westen

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

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. Thom Bogaard

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

Prof. Wenwen Li

Professor, Arizona State University, USA

Dr. Ashok Dahal

Assistant Professor, Applied Earth Sciences, University of Twente, The 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. Irasema Alcántara-Ayala

National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico

Dr. Veronica Tofani

University of Florence, Italy

Dr. Jan Klimeš

Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Dr. Sabatino Cuomo

University of Salerno, Italy

Dr. Beena Ajmera

Iowa State University, USA

Dr. S. S. Chandrasekaran 

Vellore Institute of Technology, India

Dr. Biljana Abolmasov

University of Belgrade, Serbia

Dr. Mario Parise

University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy

Dr. Željko Arbanas

University of Rijeka, Croatia

Dr. Faisal Fathani

University of Gadjah Mada, Indonesia

Dr. Chih-Chung Chung

National Central University, Chinese Taipei

Dr. Xuanmei Fan

Chengdu University, China

Geological Surveys, Public Research & Applied Technology Institutions

Dr. David Huntley

Geological Survey of Canada, Canada

Dr. Jonathan Chambers

British Geological Survey, UK

Dr. Shinji Sassa

National Institute of Maritime, Port and Aviation Technology, Japan

Dr. Saibal Ghosh

Director, Geological Survey of India

Dr. Paola Salvati

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

Dr. Maria Teresa Brunetti

Senior Research Scientist, CNR – Institute of Geosciences, Italy

Dr. Massimiliano Alvioli

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

Dr. Massimo Melillo

Research Scientist, CNR – Institute of Geosciences, 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