Previous Regional Coordinators

ADN’s previous Regional Coordinators 2023-2025:

Mr. Dillip Pattanaik

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

 


Professor Deepthi Wickramasinghe

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

 


Rohan Cooray

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

 

 


Dr. Yazidhi Bamutaze

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

 

 


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

 

 


Mr. K.G. Mahendra Jagath

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

 


ADN’s previous Regional Coordinators 2021-2023:

Dr. Christian Morgner

Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries, Management School, University of Sheffield, UK.

 

 


Mr. Samuel Akera

Project Management Specialist/Project Manager, UNDP RSCA, Nairobi, Kenya.

 

 


Dr. Sophie Hebden

Research Coordinator at European Space Agency – ESA and Future Earth, Harwell, UK.


Dr. Holmes Páez 

Full Professor at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Civil Engineering Department, Bogotá, Colombia.


Mr. Bede Wilson

Disaster manager based in Queensland, Australia.


Ms. Pamela Komujuni-Kalule

A Senior Disaster Management Officer with the Office of the Prime Minister, Government of Uganda.

 

 


Khadijeh Norouzi Khatiri
A lecturer at Applied Science and Technology, Iran

 

 

 


Dr. Radhanath Tripathy

Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi (DU)

 

 

 


Dr. Netrananda Sahu
An Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi