Regional Coordinators

The ADN Regional Coordinator (RC) role is a voluntary commitment for a two year period. The responsibilities of the RC are currently flexible and takes into consideration the individual’s expertise, capacity, and region. There are two types of responsibilities: Compulsory and Optional.

Compulsory activities include:

Optional activities include:

To find out more and discuss becoming a Regional Coordinator, please email Mr. Julian Coetzee, Deputy Operations Coordinator.


Regional Coordinators March 2023 – February 2025

Mr. K.G. Mahendra Jagath

Assistant Director at the Emergency Operation Division of the Disaster Management Center (DMC) in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

 


 

Dr. Azukaego Nnaji

A public health research specialist, Lead Consultant at JEBEHACH, Nigeria.


Dr. Edris Alam

Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Chittagong University (CU), Bangladesh.


 

Mr. Dillip Pattanaik

Executive Director of Orissa State Volunteers and Social Workers Association (OSVSWA), Bhubaneswar, India.

 


Dr. Yazidhi Bamutaze

Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Geo-Informatics and Climatic Sciences (GGCS), Makerere University, Uganda.


Dr. Fatima Akter

Assistant Professor in the Department of Meteorology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 


Ms. Shaiza Khawaja

Lecturer, School of Governance and Society – Centre for Disaster Management,
University of Management and Technology (UMT), Pakistan.


Ms. Anuradha

Co-founder and Head of Programs at Doers, India


 

Dr. Inshah Malik
Associate Professor, Politics and International Relations, New Vision University, Georgia

 

 


Mr. Snehendu Koner

The Head of Business Development and Strategy at CliniMed LifeSciences in India.   

 


 

Dr. Jebunnessa Chapola

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina, SK, Canada.

 


Ranjan Datta, PhD

Canada Research Chair in Community Disaster Research and Assistant Professor at Indigenous Studies, Department of Humanities, Mount Royal University, Calgary. Alberta, Canada.

 


Muhammad Ferdaus

Program coordinator and lecturer of the Postgraduate Programs in Disaster Management, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

 


 

Rohan Cooray

Founder, Climate Frontiers (GTE) Ltd., Sri Lanka

 

 


Professor Deepthi Wickramasinghe

Senior Professor in the Department of Zoology and Environment Sciences, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

 


Mr. Zain Dueheney

Experienced Military Officer and expert on National Emergency Management in Belize

 


Muhammad Asad Tahir

An Accomplished Civil Servant, Author, and Sustainable Leadership Advocate, Pakistan


Dr. Nikhil Paul

A skilled emergency physician with an MBBS and MD in Emergency Medicine, in India

 

 


Franklin BABILA DOH, Ph.D

Experienced Disaster Risk Reduction and Humanitarian activist in Cameroon

 

 


Sameer Kumar Jena

Skilled demographer specializing in social change, development, and public health research in India.

 


Regional Coordinators March 2021 – February 2023

To find out about the previous Regional Coordinators, please click here.