Host: - Sally Sudworth – CEO, RedR UK – BSc CEng CEnv FIAM FICE FWES
Panel Members: - Marion Reinosa – Researcher, Evaluator, Trainer – Climate advisor at Groupe URD
- Ninni Ikkala Nyman – Climate and Resilience Lead at IFRC
- Kirsten Hagon – Senior Analyst of Humanitarian Policy at IFRC
Sally Sudworth – CEO, RedR UK – BSc CEng CEnv FIAM FICE FWES Sally is the CEO of RedR UK which is an international humanitarian
learning provider with a strong engineering background that prepares
organisations and humanitarians worldwide to more effectively respond to
emergencies such as the ongoing drought in the Horn of Africa, last year’s
floods in Pakistan, the recent as earthquakes in Turkiye, Syria and Haiti
(2021), as well as the war in Ukraine. She is a chartered engineer and
chartered environmentalist, a fellow of the Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE),
the Institution of Asset Management (IAM) and the Women’s Engineering Society
(WES). As a keen champion for
sustainability and climate change, Sally promotes a proactive response through
a number of industry bodies. She founded and chaired the climate emergency group
at WES, co-chaired the climate emergency programme at the IAM and also sat on
the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction Carbon Code
advisory group. A regular speaker at conferences and events, Sally organised
and chaired a joint panel session at COP26 in Glasgow on sustainability and the
climate emergency, co-ordinating representation from the IAM, WES and the World
Federation of Engineering Organisations. She was awarded the IAM President’s
special award and the Isabel Hardwich medal in recognition of her work. She
also delivered the ICE Prestige lecture in Feb 2022 on water and
sustainability. Prior to working at Mott MacDonald as
the global head of sustainability and climate change, Sally led the net zero
carbon strategy for infrastructure at the UK Environment Agency. She was Flood Exec
for the Northwest, and before that was director for the low zero carbon hub in
Wales. Sally has held a number of trustee
positions; at RedR UK and at Engineers for Overseas Development, an engineering
charity that provides development opportunities for graduates to become
professionally qualified. She was also a trustee and board director at WES, as
well as serving as ICE Wales Cymru Chair in 2010. Sally also sits on the
Disciplinary Board at the ICE.
Marion Reinosa – Researcher,
Evaluator, Trainer – Climate advisor at Groupe URD Marion has been a research manager and
climate advisor at Groupe URD since 2022. She is a trained architect and urban
planner. Her interest in the environment and the climate, and their impacts on
housing rights and displacement, led her to specialise in risk reduction and
climate change adaptation. She subsequently began a PhD exploring the relations
between spatial planning practices and climate change as potential design tools
for climate change adaptation in South-East Asia. Before joining Groupe URD,
Marion spent several years on the ground managing climate change projects in a
UN agency and research institutes. Thanks to these opportunities, she gained
extensive knowledge of local realities by working with vulnerable communities. At Groupe URD, her main areas of
activity concern the adaptation of the aid sector to the climate crisis and
disaster risk reduction for human settlements. She recently supported DG ECHO
in mapping and analysing the state of expertise available to organisations to
turn the Climate Charter into action.
Ninni Ikkala Nyman – Climate and
Resilience Lead at IFRC Ninni is Lead, Climate and Resilience
a.i. at the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red crescent
Societies (IFRC), where she works on scaling-up the IFRC network’s strategic
and programmatic approach to climate in its 192 National Societies, with a
focus on increasing community resilience to climate change. She has 15 years of
experience in climate change adaptation and climate policy. She’s worked in developing, managing
and evaluating climate change adaptation programmes from community-level
initiatives to global multi-country programmes. She´s provided strategic
guidance to institutions in integrating climate change into their priorities
and programmes. Her work has also
included advising and training governments and organisations on international
climate change policy under the UNFCCC and national adaptation planning. Previously, she worked for UNDP, IUCN
and the Government of Finland, in addition to consulting for a range of UN
agencies and environmental organisations. Ninni holds an MSc from the London
School of Economics and has worked in particular in South and South-East Asia
and Latin America. Kirsten Hagon – Senior Analyst of Humanitarian
Policy at IFRC Kirsten has been part of IFRC's
humanitarian policy and diplomacy team, based in Geneva, since 2017 leading on
strategic advocacy for the IFRC Network. Her work includes coordinating IFRC
network engagement in multilateral events (Global Compacts on Migration and
Refugees, IMRF, GPDRR, UNFCCC processes etc.), and managing major IFRC policy
publications including the World Disasters Report. She coordinated IFRC
engagement in the UNFCCC COP and was the lead author for the 2020 World
Disasters Report which focused on the climate crisis. She has the privilege of
being able to learn from and build on years of IFRC network disaster risk
management, climate and environment related programming and policy engagement.
IFRC has been concerned about the humanitarian impacts of climate and
environment crises since the 1970s when this issue was first recognized in the organization’s
statutory meetings, and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre has existed
for some 20 years, engaging in the global climate policy and negotiation
processes. Kirsten co-chairs the IASC working
group on climate change which is currently working to coordinate humanitarian
engagement in climate processes. The team is also working to develop a roadmap
to support scaled up climate action by humanitarian organizations – inputs
welcome! By background, she is an international
lawyer by training with experience in the areas of humanitarian policy,
strategic advocacy, protection and forced displacement. She took some time away
from Geneva to take up the role of IFRC’s head of delegation in Palestine
during the 2021 escalation of hostilities. Previously she was the director of
Oxfam International's New York UN liaison office, focussing on Security Council
engagement, as well as their Geneva based Humanitarian Representative and head
of humanitarian policy. She has also worked with UNHCR, UNDP, the ICC, and
for the Swiss Development Cooperation, with postings including Darfur, Uganda,
Chad, Palestine and Egypt. |