Who We Are

Staff Consultant

Maya Li Preti

Maya Li Preti is a consultant with the Power and Accountability team at UNU-IIGH.

Expert Professorial Fellow

Ine Lietaert

Ine Lietaert is a Professorial Fellow at UNU-CRIS since November 2018.

Expert Project Assistant

Connor is working as a Project Assistant on the Climate Analytics team for the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII), hosted by UNU-EHS, contributing to the application of the Economics in Climate Adaptation (ECA) methodology in project countries with comprehensive literature research, data collection and climate risk analysis. His responsibilities include supporting the Analytics team with report preparation, policy review and workshop coordination.

Expert Senior Adjunct Researcher

Dr. André Lindner

André Lindner is a Senior Adjunct Researcher at UNU-FLORES and Deputy Director of the UNU Hub Climate Resilience and Sustainable Technologies (CREST), he also serves as the Managing Director and Advisor Internationalization of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at TUD | Dresden University of Technology.

Expert Research Manager

Dr. Ann-Christine Link

Ann-Christine Link is a geographer by training, interested in the connections among the nexus of climate, human (im)mobility and health. Ann-Christine is particularly interested in the well-being outcomes of human (im)mobility in the context of climate change, specifically climate-related planned relocation and retreat. Her research methodologies include mixed-methods, quantitative research involving large datasets (RStudio), spatial analyses (QGIS) and qualitative analyses encompassing interviews, focus group discussions (MAXQDA), Q-method and photovoice.

Expert Research Assistant

Jia An LIU

Jia’an Liu is a computer scientist and research assistant at the United Nations University Institute in Macau focusing on the intersection of AI and Sustainable Development Goals.

Expert Research Intern

Uyanga Lkhagvajav

Uyanga Lkhagvajav is a research intern at UNU-CRIS

Expert Doctoral Researcher

Taha Loghmani

As a Doctoral Researcher, Taha Loghmani’s research focuses on the governance of sustainability transitions of agri-food systems, while maintaining system resilience in the face of unforeseen events such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Expert Adjunct Professor, Health Risk and Equity

Prof. Carmen Logie

Dr Carmen Logie is the Canada Research Chair in Global Health Equity and Social Justice with Marginalized Populations and Professor at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto.

Expert Policy Research Lead

Claudia Abreu Lopes

Dr Claudia Abreu Lopes is a Policy Research Lead at the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH).