Julie Gassien, Global Lead Climate and
Environment, Norwegian Refugee Council Ms. Julie Gassien is currently leading the NRC strategy for
addressing the impact of climate change on displaced people, and integrating
climate and environment in NRC’s response. She has been working with NRC since
2022. Prior to NRC and between 2013 and 2022, she has been assigned to
different UN agencies for working both on environment/climate programmes and
projects, and the environmental management of operations and facilities (UNHCR,
WFP, UNICEF, UN Secretariat, UN Department of Peace Operations) at country,
regional and headquarters level, deployed in more than 7 countries affected by
humanitarian crises. She
comes from an agronomy engineer academic background, with a specialization in
environmental sciences. Evan Easton Calabria, Climate center Dr. Evan Easton-Calabria is a Research Assistant
Professor, Feinstein International Center and Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy, Tufts University, and a Research Associate at the University of
Oxford. Her work focuses on the lives, livelihoods, and self-reliance of
urban displaced people, including topics at the intersection of displacement,
conflict, and climate change. She co-leads the Anticipatory Action for
Displacement Working Group (Anticipation Hub) and the Technical Working Group
on Climate Risks, Displacement, and Self-Reliance (Refugee Self-Reliance
Initiative). She regularly consults with United Nations and other humanitarian
agencies, and has been a Senior Technical Advisor with the Red Cross Red
Crescent Climate Centre since 2019. Anna Renfrew, Mercy Corps Anna is Mercy Corps' policy lead for climate and
has a particular focus on climate action at intersection of climate, conflict,
and fragility. Since joining Mercy Corps in 2023, she has collaborated closely
with the UK and European Union to advocate for improved policies and practices.
She is currently working on the UK's Resilience and Adaptation Fund to ensure
that resilience programming is grounded in practical insights and can adapt to
complex fragile environments. Prior to her current role, she has worked at
several humanitarian and development organizations including Action Against
Hunger, focusing on UK Government engagement and humanitarian crises response. ·
Paul Knox Clarke, Principal, ADAPT
Paul is the principal of ADAPT, and organisation that works
to improve the readiness of humanitarian and other actors to prepare for the
impacts of climate change. He has previously worked in a variety of field and
headquarters positions for UN WFP and Save the Children UK, as the CEO of
Oxford Change Management, and as the Director of Research, Evaluation and
Communications for the humanitarian ALNAP network. IN his current role paul works closely with a
number of humanitarian organisations, looking at climate adaptation in the
health, WASH and Shelter sectors. He will be speaking about specific examples
of this work, particularly with relation to heatwave and flood preparedness. AIDMI: Mihir R. Bhatt, All India Disaster Mitigation
Institute
Mihir R. Bhatt, All India Disaster Mitigation
Institute, works with affected people on extreme heat, floods, cyclones, and
other events and processes in Indian cities and districts and in the
neighborhoods on making policies performance, leveraging capacity, piloting
demonstration projects, and evaluating ongoing public and private climate
mitigation and adaptation measures. |
