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DECEMBER | 13th – 15th, 2024
Timings: 9:00am to 5:30pm IST

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TSUNAMI RISK REDUCTION
& RESILIENCE HYBRID EVENT

Two Decades since the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: Reflections, Learnings and Innovations

Amritapuri Campus
Kerala, India

Speakers

Chief of Disaster Risk Reduction, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

Chief of the Disaster Risk Reduction Unit, UNESCO

Head of UNESCO-IOC Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System Secretariat in Australia

Director, National Institute of Advanced studies.

Associated Prof., IIEES and Chair of WG-NWIO- IGC/IOC UNESCO

Dr. Eddie Bernard

Former Director, NOAA’s Pacific Tsunami Warning Center

Deputy Chief Executive, National Disaster Management Authority, Maldives

Dr. Ian Davis

Visiting Professor, Kyoto, Lund and Oxford Brookes Universities,- Honorary Visiting Professor, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Europe

Programme Manager, Trust Fund for Tsunami Disaster and Climate Preparedness, UN ESCAP

Director(I/C), INCOIS
Ministry of Earth Sciences
Govt. of India

Executive Director, NIDM

Director, EDPO, Indian Space Research Organisation, India

Director of Center for Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Resilience, Adelaide Business School, Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics, University of Adelaide, Australia

Prof. Kenji Satake

Professor, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo

Professor of Emergency Planning and Management at University College London.

Founder Member,
National Disaster Management Authority

Retired Secretary Govt of India

Coordinator, Global Development Research Center, Kobe, Japan

Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland

IOC- UNESCO expert of the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWMS), and UNDRR, ESTAG

Dr. Krishnan Srinivasaraghavan

Former Head of Exploration, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India Member, Senior Executive Board, Central University of Tamil Nadu (CUTN) Member, Expert Committee for CRRC & SUNIL Programmes, Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India

Program Head, Reliance Foundation

Group Manager, ESRI India

Indonesian NDMA Advisory Board, Muhmammadiyah Disaster Management Center (NGO)
Convener, Indonesian Development and Humanitarian Alliance (a National Reference Group for localization/grand bargain),
Assistant Professor, Government Dept, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta

Additional Professor at Department of Psychosocial Support in Disaster Management, Former Senior consultant NDMA

Former Director General at Kerala Institute of Local Administration (KILA)

Former Emergency Analyst, UNDP, India.

Former Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Maharashtra & Former Head of Mangrove Cell, Maharashtra

Principal Scientist, CSIR- National Environmental Engineering Research Institute

Senior Scientist at The Nature Conservancy, Hon Res Fellow at Cambridge Uni & Chief Science Advisor to the Government of the Chagos Archipelago, Siena, Toscana, Italia

Executive Director, Relief and Development Commission Asia Evangelical Alliance, Sri Lanka

Indian Ocean Tsunami Early Warning Systems Expert

Executive Director, Odisha State Disaster Management Authority

Director (Preparedness) of the Disaster Management Center, Sri Lanka

Scientist E – Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS), India

Dr. Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh

Provost – Strategic Initiatives, International, Research & Innovation, AI + X | Dean, School for Sustainable Futures | Dean, International Programs | UNESCO Chair on Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation & Development | Director, Amrita Center for Wireless Networks & Applications

Dr. Bhavani Rao R

Dean, School of Social & Behavioural Sciences | Director, Amrita Multi Modal Applications and Human Computer Interaction Las (AMMACHI Labs), Amritapuri | Director, Center for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, Amritapuri | UNESCO Chair on Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Dr. Sudha Arlikkatti

Professor, School for Sustainable Futures | Research Head, School for Sustainable Futures

Dr. Vijai Dharmamony

Associate Professor, School for Sustainable Futures, Amritapuri

Dr. Remya S.N

Assistant Professor, School for Sustainable Futures, Amritapuri

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