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Andrea Ortiz Vargas
Andrea is a research associate at the EVES Division, where she supports the FloodAdapt project and UNU-EHS Flagship Report project, in both being the focus of her research: Nature-based solutions for flood risk reduction in central Viet Nam.
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Leona Vaughn
Dr Leona Vaughn is the Vulnerable Populations Lead for the Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking (FAST) initiative, a project based at United Nations University Centre for Policy Research.
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Elke Verhaeghe
Elke Verhaeghe is a PhD Fellow at UNU-CRIS.
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Janani Vivekananda
Janani Vivekananda is a Senior Fellow (Non-Resident) at United Nations University Centre for Policy Research and serves as the Head of Programme, Climate Diplomacy and Security at Adelphi, Berlin.
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Florian Waldschmidt
Florian is a Project Manager in the Climate Risk Analytics Team within MCII. Much of his work and research as an economist focuses on the analysis of monetary and non-monetary impacts of natural hazards.
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Matthias Walz
Matthias Walz is a Senior Scientist for Sustainable Finance at UNU-FLORES.
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Dr. Yvonne Walz
Dr. Yvonne Walz is the Head of the Environmental Vulnerability and Ecosystem Services (EVES) division of UNU-EHS.
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Lili Wang
Lili Wang obtained her PhD degree from Eindhoven University of Technology and currently works at UNU-MERIT.
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Narelle Warren
Narelle Warren is Senior Visiting Fellow at UNU-IIGH. She is an internationally recognised medical anthropologist and health sociologist specialising in interdisciplinary ethnographic research exploring the experiences of health, illness and care for structurally vulnerable communities.
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Dr. Tsunao Watanabe
Tsunao Watanabe is a Senior Programme Coordinator at UNU-IAS.
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Ronamali Weerasuriya
Rona Weerasuriya is a Visiting Fellow at UNU-IIGH.
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Dr. Saskia Elisabeth Werners
Saskia E. Werners' main research interest is adaptation to global change in water management.
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Christina Natalia Widjaja
Christina is currently leading a book publication project centered around the Climate Vulnerability Monitor (CVM) 3rd edition Report: A Planet on Fire. Commissioned by the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) and the Vulnerable Twenty Group (V20) and supported by organizations like Climate Analytics, finres and the Lancet Countdown, CVM consolidates the latest scientific research on climate change impacts.
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René Wintjes
René Wintjes is senior research fellow at MERIT (now the UNU Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology — UNU-MERIT) since 1998.
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Dr. Qiusheng Wu
Dr. Qiusheng Wu works at the intersection of geospatial data science, remote sensing, and environmental modeling.
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Dr. Shinobu Yume Yamaguchi
Shinobu Yume Yamaguchi is the Director of UNU-IAS.
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Min Yang
Min Yang is a researcher at the United Nations University Institute in Macau who is passionate about building a sustainable and peaceful future for all through knowledge generating and sharing.
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Kim Young Sik
Kim YoungSik is a Senior Associate Expert at the United Nations University (UNU-EGOV) since 2022.
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Moinul Zaber
Moinul Zaber is a Senior Academic Fellow at the United Nations University (UNU-EGOV) since 2019.
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Azin Zarei
Azin Zarei is a Senior Research Assistant at UNU-FLORES.