UNU Experts

Expert Research Consultant

Charmaine Distor

Charmaine Distor is a Research Consultant at the United Nations University (UNU-EGOV) since 2024. Prior to this, she was a Junior Research Assistant from August 2022 to September 2024.

Expert Researcher Policy Making

Dr. Daniel Domínguez Gómez

Expert Adjunct Professor, Participatory Management and Community Engagement

Nancy Doubleday holds a PhD degree from Queen’s University and specializes in international law of indigenous peoples and environment, and in paleo-ecological reconstructions of climate change and anthropogenic impacts.

Expert Receptionist

Mieke Drossaert

Mieke Drossaert is Student Affairs Officer at UNU-MERIT.

Expert Project Associate - Climate Risk Adaptation and Insurance in the Caribbean (CRAIC) Project

Linda Du Roy

Linda works as a Project Associate within MCII’s Climate Risk Finance Solutions team. She is primarily involved in the Pacific Insurance and Climate Adaptation Program (PICAP), as well as in the development and implementation of a new global program on Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance.

Expert Chief Administrative and Programme Services

Werner Dubbeling

Werner Dubbeling is the Chief, Administrative and Programme Services at the UNU-MERIT

Expert Adjunct Professor

Dr Timothy Dube

Dr Timothy Dube is an Adjunct Professor at UNU-FLORES.

Expert Researcher

Dr. Talitha Dubow

Talitha Dubow is a migration researcher at UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University.

Expert Policy and Communications Officer

Andrew Dunn

Andrew Dunn is the Policy and Communications Officer at UNU-CRIS.

Expert Associate Academic Officer

Dr. David Durand-Delacre

David Durand-Delacre is a human geographer and critical migration scholar interested in the political, cultural, and epistemological controversies arising from growing concern about climate change’s impact on human mobilities.

Expert Associate Sustainability Officer

Juliane Dziumla

Juliane Dziumla has been a member of UNU-FLORES since 2018 and is the co-founder of the Green Committee at the Institute.

Expert Professorial Fellow

Marijke D’Haese

Marijke D’Haese is a Professor in rural development economics at the Department of Agricultural Economics of Ghent University.

Expert Lead Research Associate

Bushra Ebadi

Bushra Ebadi has been with the United Nations University (UNU-EGOV) since 2022.

Expert Research Manager - Interconnected Disaster Risks

Caitlyn Eberle

Caitlyn Eberle is a research associate and one of the lead authors of the Interconnected Risks report, UNU-EHS's annual flagship publication

Expert Research Associate

Amina Ebrahim

Amina Ebrahim is a Research Associate at UNU-WIDER focusing on tax administrative data in South Africa.

Expert Visting Researcher

Nagashree Gowdajjagala Ekanthappa

Visiting Researcher

Expert Research Fellow, Environmental Security, Conflict and Migration

Dr. Lina Eklund

Dr. Lina Eklund specializes in land system dynamics in the context of migration and armed conflict, using mainly earth observation and spatial analysis.

Expert Student Assistant

Melad Elias

Expert Adjunct Professor, Environment and Health

Prof. Susan Elliott

Susan Elliott is a health geographer whose primary area of research focuses on relationships between environment and health, broadly defined.

Expert Research Associate - Organic Agriculture Transition

Gioia Emidi