Senior Management Team
The Senior Management Team (SMT) ultimately governs the entire Tomorrows Cities Hub and is the key decision making body. SMT works together to deliver the Hub’s overall purpose and sets in place all operating functions to guarantee the effective delivery of Tomorrows Cities, ensuring that the Hub’s overarching governance is fit for purpose. SMT leads in reporting and works collaboratively to meet the funders reporting and evaluation requirements.
Mark Pelling
Director, GCRF Urban Disaster Risk Hub: Tomorrow's Cities/Professor, University College London
Thaísa Comelli
Future Visioning Lead / UCL Senior Research Fellow.
Gemma Cremen
Hazard & Impact Modelling Lead / Lecturer of Risk and Resilience Engineering UCL
Carmine Galasso
Risk Working Group Lead/ Professor, University College London
Ramesh Guragain
Capacity Strengthening Lead/ Deputy Executive Director, National Society for Earthquake Technology – Nepal (NSET)
John McCloskey
Former Director and Principal Investigator, GCRF Urban Disaster Risk Hub: Tomorrow's Cities/ Professor, University of Edinburgh
Hugh Sinclair
Principle Investigator, GCRF Urban Disaster Risk Hub: Tomorrow's Cities/Professor, University of Edinburgh
Technical Section Leads
Tomorrow’s Cities “Technical Section Leads” comprises a wide range of international researchers who lead the different technical stages of the TCDSE and project managers, as well as Capacity Strengthening, Communications and MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning) representatives.
Ekin Ekici
Action Planning Coordinator
Roberto Gentile
Risk Agreement Lead / Lecturer in Catastrophe Risk Modelling UCL
Max Hope
Impact Pathways Lead / Principal Lecturer in Planning and Geography Leeds Beckett University
Jeremy Phillips
Hazard Modelling/ Professor of Natural Hazards, University of Bristol
Emin Yahya Menteşe
Urban Scenarios Lead / ANOFA
City Leads
City Leads have directed city teams and can be university, research centre or government officers. They provide resources for peer learning across cities and with new city teams.
Nairobi
Joanes Atela
Executive Director, Africa Research and Impact Network.
Dar es Salaam
Kombe Willard
Urban Scenarios Lead / ANOFA
Quito
Daniel Andrade
Hazard & Impact Modelling Lead / Lecturer of Risk and Resilience Engineering UCL
Quito
Elisa Sevilla
Professor Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Khokana
Sangita Singh
Khokana
Dharam Raj Uprety
Rapti
Suraj Lamichhane
Rapti
Basanta Raj Adhikari
Nablus
Jalal Al Dabbeek
Professor. Director for Urban Planning & Disaster Risk Reduction Centre, An Najah University
Nablus
Jamal Dabbeek
Assistant Professor, Catastrophe Modelling Expert, An Najah University
Chattogram
Basir Zisan
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh
Operations Team
The Operations Team consists of representatives from the University of Edinburgh including the project manager, finance manager, communications officer and project administrator. The team also consists of representatives across the project including Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) leads, and operational coordinators across the cities. The purpose of the operations team is to act as a central point of contact for project management, administrative support and coordination and ensure that the project complies with the Terms and Conditions of the funder. The team ensures that there are robust financial structures in place and that these structures are supported and implemented effectively. Support is provided on communications (e.g. website, translation), knowledge exchange and MEL and on all planning, monitoring and reporting of the project. The team works together to deliver the Hub’s overall purpose, setting in place all operating functions to ensure the effective delivery of the Tomorrows Cities project.
Dawn Alexander
Project Manager
Ciara Merrick
Project Manager
Niamh Bajai
Project Administrator Alistair Ordeman
Finance Manager
Sérgio Esperancinha
Communications Manager
Khadga Sen Oli
Communications Manager for Rapti, Cox's Bazaar and Chittagong
Progress Sharma
IT and Web Development Expert Dhirendra Dawadi
Operational Coordinator - Rapti, Cox's Bazaar and Chittagong
Nisha Shrestha
MEL Expert, Research Associate (WP4), Capacity Strengthening Module 4 Lead
Sukirti Amatya
Research Associate - MEL
Emine Öner
Project Manager - Istanbul
Arun Bikram
Project Manager - Kathmandu
Victoria Chengo
Project Manager Nairobi
Belén Cruz Zurita
Project Manager - Quito
Advisory Board
The purpose of the Advisory Board is to provide strategic guidance and support to Tomorrow’s Cities (TC) to ensure that the Hub achieves its stated objectives and meets the strategic needs of the funding partner, and all partners. The board helps to identify new opportunities and partnerships and secure potential funding sources to sustain and scale up the impact of the research Hub beyond its current duration. It assists in developing and implementing strategies to embed the outcomes and learnings of the research hub into the policies and practices of relevant international and national stakeholders, such as UN agencies, government agencies, international and national civil society organisations, and private sector entities. The board monitors and evaluates the quality and rigour of the research hub’s methodology, data management, analysis, and publications and provide constructive feedback and recommendations for improvement.
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