Speakers
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Gordon A. McBean, Professor and Director Policy Studies, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, Departments of Geography and Political Science, The University of Western Ontario Session chair
Professor Gordon McBean, CM, PhD, FRSC is Director of Policy Studies, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction at The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada where he has been since 2000 a Professor of Geography and Political Science. From 1994-2000, he was the Assistant Deputy Minister for the Meteorological Service of Environment Canada and Permanent Representative of Canada to the WMO. He was also an elected member of the WMO Executive Council. Prior to that, he was Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences at the University of British Columbia. He is a Member of the Order of Canada, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society and the American Meteorological Society. Among his many national and international activities are now Chair, Science Committee for the ICSU-ISSC-UNISDR Integrated Research on Disaster Risk program and Chair of START International. He previously Chaired the World Climate Research Programme.
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Bruce Hewitson Speaker |
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Sailesh Nayak Speaker |
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Ehrlich Desa Speaker |
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Maxx Dilley Discussant |
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Walter Baethgen Discussant
Walter E. Baethgen is Director of the Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (The Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York), where he has been establishing regional research programmes that aim to improve climate risk assessment and risk management in the agricultural, health, water resources and disasters sectors. Before joining IRI he was Senior Scientist in the Research and Development Division of the International Soil Fertility and Agricultural Development Center.
Walter has acted as a consultant for a number of UN and international bodies, as well as for several governments and the private sector in South America. He participated as principal investigator in several international research programmes. He was a lead author for the Second (1995) and Third (2001) Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and contributing author for the Fourth Assessment Report (2007), as well as review editor for IPCC’s special issue on Technology Transfer (2000). He has served as a member of scientific advisory committees of several International organizations and as reviewer of several International research programmes. He is currently an Editorial Board member of the peer-reviewed journal Agricultural Systems. Walter obtained his PhD and M.Sc. degrees in Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He has over 100 publications to his credit. |
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Eduard Mueller Discussant |