Who We Are

Expert Adjunct Professor, Disaster and Emergency Management

Prof. Nirupama Agrawal

Nirupama Agrawal is a Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management (DEM) at York University, Canada, with over 30 years of professional experience.

Expert Research Fellow, Water and agricultural economics in arid and semi-arid regions

Dr. Ifedotun Victor Aina

Dr. Ifedotun Aina is a policy researcher and economist with an active research portfolio at the intersection of water and environmental economics, agricultural economics, and behavioural economics.

UNU Council Member UNU Council Member; Public Policy Scholar; and former President of the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India

Ms. Yamini Aiyar

Ms. Yamini Aiyar is a Public Policy Scholar and former President of the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi, India.

Expert Digital Communications Officer

Arsh Ajmera

Arsh Ajmera is a Digital Communications Officer at the United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT)

Expert Associate Research Fellow

Dr. Berna Akcali Gur

Berna Akcali Gur is an Associate Research Fellow at UNU-CRIS within the Digital Governance Cluster

Expert Consultant

Dr. Mark McCarthy Akrofi

Mark Akrofi is a Consultant with the Governance for Climate Change and Sustainable Development Programme at UNU-IAS.

Staff Operations and Programme Assistant

Nuriyah Akung

Nuriyah works as an Operations and Programme Assistant at UNU-IIGH.

Expert Doctoral Researcher

Abdulhakeem Amer Abdulhafed Al-Qubati is a Doctoral Researcher in the project “Resource Nexus Issues Revealed by COVID-19 for Professional Communities in the Agri-Food Supply Chain” at UNU-FLORES and TU Dresden since November 2021.

Advisory Committee Member Chair of Advisory Committee

Prof. Joseph Alcamo

Joseph Alcamo is a Professor of Environmental System Science as well as Director of , at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom.

Expert Emeritus Professor

Prof. Dr. Ludovico Alcorta

Ludovico Alcorta is Professorial Fellow on "Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Development" at UNU MERIT, School of Business and Economics, University of Maastricht.