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Ilan Kelman (http://www.ilankelman.org and Twitter https://twitter.com/ilankelman) is Reader in Risk, Resilience and Global Health at the University College London, England and Professor II at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. His overall research interest is linking disasters and health, including the integration of climate change into disaster research and health research. That covers three main areas: disaster diplomacy and health diplomacy (http://www.disasterdiplomacy.org); island sustainability involving safe and healthy communities in isolated locations (http://www.islandvulnerability.org) and risk education for health and disasters (http://www.riskred.org).

Bayes Ahmed is based at the UCL Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction and UCL Humanitarian Institute, University College London (UCL), UK. His background includes research into the field of disaster risk reduction (DRR), community vulnerability, GIS and remote sensing, climate change adaptation, conflict and migration, and climate justice. He received the PhD degree in DRR from UCL, the joint Erasmus Mundus MSc degree in Geospatial Technologies from Spain, Germany and Portugal; and the Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning (BURP) degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET). He is a Commonwealth and European Commission scholar.

Md Esraz-Ul-Zannat is Faculty Member at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Khulna, Bangladesh. Mr Esraz has more than 11 years of experience in the field of GIS, remote sensing and photogrammetric applications in urban planning, water and environment, disaster management, and climate change. He did graduation and postgraduation from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka in 2007 and 2012, respectively. He has vast experiences in providing training on geo-spatial science and technologies. He is a professional Urban Planner and member and board member (Research and Publications) of the Bangladesh Institute of Planners.

Md Mustafa Saroar is Professor of Urban Environmental Management at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET), Bangladesh. His research interests include broader aspects of sustainability such as disaster risk reduction including climate change adaptation, livelihoods and food security, urban management and integrated coastal zone management. Professor Saroar received a PhD degree from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok and the MSc degree from Technical University of Dortmund, Germany. He has over 15 years of teaching and research experience.

Maureen Fordham is Professor of Gender and Disaster Resilience. She has been researching disasters since 1988 and is an expert on community based disaster risk reduction, and capacities and vulnerability analysis, focusing particularly on the inclusion of a range of social groups in disaster risk reduction. She was a founding member of the Gender and Disaster Network in 1997 and is the Coordinator of its website (www.gdnonline.org) and activities. She is a governmental advisor at all scales from local through national to the global UN level. She has edited, and is on the editorial boards of, international disaster-related journals. She is affiliated with University College London Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, Durham University, and Northumbria University in the UK, and Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand.

Mohammad Shamsudduha is Research Fellow at the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR), University College London (UCL), and Project Manager of a UK Government-funded international consortium project, GroFutures (Groundwater Futures in Sub-Saharan Africa). Shams received the PhD degree in Hydrogeology from the UCL Department of Geography in 2011 and joined IRDR in early 2012, where he has been conducting research on “water risks” across the world. Shams’ research interests also revolve around the impact of global change on hydrometeorological hazards in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.