Anshul Krishan
ex-Managing Director, Goldman Sachs;
Chief of Staff, IFC-World Bank Group and
Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
With 25 years of executive management and institutional advisory experience across Asia, EMEA and the United States, including previous leadership roles at Goldman Sachs and the IFC-World Bank Group, Anshul Krishan works at the intersections of sustainable investing and corporate finance, development impact policy and international capital markets. He guides international institutions on corporate development, strategic finance and business opportunities with sustainability and impact themes while playing an active role in developing multi-stakeholder investment partnerships covering a range of issue areas.
Assoc. Prof David Lallemant
Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Advisor
PhD. Stanford University,
M.Eng. UC Berkeley and BSc. in engineering MIT
Dr. David Lallemant is an Associate Professor and leads the Disaster Analytics for Society Lab at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, focusing on enhancing resilience through probabilistic modeling of climate and disaster risk. After earning his PhD from Stanford University and co-founding the Stanford Urban Resilience Initiative, he has become a recognized voice in the field, evidenced by his TEDx talks on climate and disaster risk management. His consultancy work spans numerous prestigious international institutions, leveraging his expertise to advance risk analytics and management globally. David’s prolific output includes over 50 scholarly publications and technical reports, contributing significantly to the body of knowledge in disaster risk reduction. His achievements have been acknowledged with awards such as the National Research Foundation Fellowship, the Data Innovation for Sustainable Development Award, and the Nanyang Award for Humanitarian Work. Additionally, David is the founder of the Averted Disaster Award, recognizing innovations in disaster risk management.
Dr. Dennis Wagenaar
Co-Founder
PhD. VU Amsterdam and MSc. Delft University
ex-Deltares
Natural hazard risk management applications have been incorporated using Dr. Dennis Wagenaar’s extensive practical work in the Netherlands, United States and Asia. Dennis previously worked as a flood risk consultant for Deltares and has provided consultancy services to the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, World Bank, GFDRR, Asian Development Bank, ASEAN Secretariat and several local government bodies. He has also published scientific articles on flood risk modeling and flood and wind damage assessment in journals including Natural Hazards & Earth Systems Science, Water Resources Research, Risk Analysis, International Journal for Disaster Risk Reduction and Environmental Modeling and Software.
Asst. Prof. Mariano Balbi
Technical Advisor
PhD. University of Buenos Aires
M.Sc. Stanford University
Mariano has more than 10 years of experience on probabilistic modelling for Natural Hazards and risk analysis, both in the industry and in academia. He has developed models for seismic and hydro-meteorological hazards as part of consulting projects for the mining and insurance industries.
He has also authored and co-authored scientific articles on probabilistic models for hazard and risk assessments in journals including Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, One Earth and Water Resources Research.
Asst. Prof. Agustín Bertero
Technical Advisor
PhD in Civil Engineering from University of Buenos Aires and
MSc. University of California, Berkeley
Agustin is an Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Buenos Aires. He has several years of experience in natural hazard risk management projects, and has provided consulting services to both private and public organisations. He has also published scientific articles on seismic hazard and risk analysis in journals including Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics and the Journal of South American Earth Sciences.
Lim Tian Ning
Technical: Modeling
M.Sc. in flood risk management from Erasmus Mundus Flood Risk Management program
and B.Sc in Geosciences from Nanyang Technological University.
Lim Tian Ning is a flood risk modeler who holds a degree in Environmental Earth Systems Science from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, and a Master’s degree from the Erasmus Mundus Flood Risk Management program – both of which she completed as a scholarship holder. Specializing in flood risk, Tian Ning’s BSc thesis examined the sensitivity of exposure information to flood risk outcomes, while her MSc thesis focused on the role of mangroves in coastal protection through wave height reduction. During her stint as a research assistant at the Disaster Analytics for Society Lab (NTU), Tian Ning co-organized the inaugural Understanding Risk Field Lab which focused on issues around urban flooding.
Jena Chao
Technical: Systems and Support
BSc. Geoscience from National Taiwan University
Jena is a scholarship recipient with a degree in Geosciences, specializing in structural geology. She conducted a tectonic analysis of a fold and thrust belt in western Taiwan during her internship at the Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica. CAPM trained, she brings extensive project planning and management experience. Jena’s strong administrative skills and science communications background, combined with her extensive fieldwork experience and previous role as an outdoor educator, equip her with a versatile blend of hard and soft skills.
Dr. Indraneel Kasmalkar
Technical: Modeling
PhD. in computational and mathematical engineering from
Stanford University and B.A. in mathematics from UC Berkeley
Dr. Indraneel Kasmalkar holds a PhD in computational and mathematical engineering from Stanford University and continues to do groundbreaking research at Disaster Analytics for Society Lab in Nanyang Technological University. Indraneel developed computational techniques to integrate complex models and scale the analytics. He has published scientific articles on high-performance flooding algorithms, flood impact modeling and computational ice sheet dynamics, in journals including Science Advances, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Urban Climate, and Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth’s Surface.
Dr. Maricar Rabonza
Technical: Modeling
PhD. in disaster analytics from Nanyang Technological University
and M.Sc. in geotechnical engineering from University of the Philippines Diliman
Maricar Rabonza is a disaster risk modeller with 11 years of experience in natural hazard modeling and urban risk analytics. She obtained her PhD from the Asian School of the Environment at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), where she developed a time-dependent vulnerability framework for urban disaster risk, a probabilistic counterfactual approach to highlight the benefits of risk reduction, and introduced novel improvements to hazard model calibration using spatial statistics. Her research led to the creation of the Averted Disaster Award. Currently, as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Earth Observatory of Singapore, Maricar leads research on dynamic risk, focusing on changes in physical vulnerability and urban growth. She holds a BSc and MSc in Civil-Geotechnical Engineering from the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman. Prior to her PhD, she developed nationwide landslide susceptibility models for the Philippines with the UP Resilience Institute and Project NOAH.
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