UNU Experts

Expert Student Assistant

Marino Tommaso Dezulian

Expert Assistant Professor

Dr. Stephan Dietrich

Stephan Dietrich is an assistant professor at UNU-MERIT.

Expert Research Fellow, Environment-Conflict Nexus

Dr. Pınar Dinç is a political scientist specializing in environmental peace and conflict studies, with a particular focus on the interplay between political power, climate and environmental change, ecological degradation, authoritarianism, resistance, and migration.

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 Executive advisor to The United Nations University Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU Resource Nexus)

H.R.H. Princess Dr. Abzeita Djigma

Chair of the H.R.H. Princess Abze Djigma foundation, Initiator and leader of the Initiative MAMA-LIGHT® for Sustainable Energy, Initiator and leader of “The Mutirão and Burkindi Coalition Capacity Building Initiative” and Co-Chair of the UNFCCC Paris Committee on Capacity-Building (PCCB)

Expert Researcher Policy Making

Dr. Daniel Domínguez Gómez

Expert Receptionist & Management/Office-Assistant

Mieke Drossaert

Mieke Drossaert is Student Affairs Officer at UNU-MERIT.

Expert Senior Associate

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

Prof. Timothy Dube

Dr Timothy Dube is an Adjunct Professor at UNU Resource Nexus

Expert Assistant Professor

Dr. Talitha Dubow

Talitha Dubow is Assistant Professor 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 JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Dhimas Dwinandha

Dr. Dhimas Dwinandha is a JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow jointly affiliated with UNU-IAS and the Institute of Science Tokyo.

Expert Research Associate

Juliane Dziumla

Juliane Dziumla has been a member of UNU Resource Nexus since 2018. Her research focuses on sustainability assessment, sustainable technologies and pathways to sustainable development, including scenario planning and sustainability-oriented decision-making.

Expert Research Fellow