Guo Guizhen, Associate Researcher and PhD, is the Director of the Integrated Risk Monitoring and Early Warning Center of the National Disaster Reduction Center of China under the Ministry of Emergency Management. He graduated from the School of Architectural Engineering, Tianjin University, and is mainly engaged in disaster monitoring, early warning and loss assessment. 

He took part in the integrated assessment and field survey on some large-scale natural disasters, such as Lushan Earthquake in Sichuan, Ludian Earthquake in Yunnan and a major earthquake in Nepal. As a Chinese expert, he joined in many international cooperation projects, including the disaster-relief exercise in 2015 under the ASEAN Regional Forum, on-site survey and assessment of the Ecuador M7.8 Earthquake in 2016. As a member of the national emergency response team, he has visited the disaster areas for emergency response for more than 50 times. 

He has been involved in the development of several national standards and policies, including the Statistical System on the Damage and Loss of the Large-scale Natural Disasters, the Standards for Disaster Relief Supplies Reserve and the Standards on the Identification of Housing Damaged and Collapsed in Nature Disasters. So far, he has published more than 20 papers on SCI, EI and other core academic journals in China and beyond.

Professor of China Agricultural University, Consultant of the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Expert Steering Group of the Ministry of Agriculture and Affairs. Former member of the Advisory Working Group, Committee of Agricultural Meteorological, WMO; former member of the council of the Chinese Association of Agricultural Science Societies; former vice president of Chinese Society of Agrometeorology; and former vice president of Beijing Society of Agronomy. Graduated from the Dept. of Agrometeorology, Beijing Agricultural University in 1966 and engaged in research and education of agricultural disaster reduction, agricultural ecological management, agrometeorology and adaptation to climate change for more than 50 yeare. Trained more than 20 graduate students, published 22 academic books(in Chinese) and more than 100 papers.

President of Civil Protection Authority, Ministry of the Interior, Timor-Leste

Council of Ministers approved the draft Government Resolution, presented by the Minister of the Interior, Taur Matan Ruak, and the Secretary of State for Civil Protection, Joaquim José Gusmão dos Reis Martins, to appoint Ismael da Costa Babo to fill the position of President of the Civil Protection Authority, in a secondment regime, for a four-year term, from the date of taking office. The Civil Protection Authority is the national executive body that regulates all civil protection activities, and its President acts as the focal point of liaison at the political level and is responsible for the operational, administrative-logistical and financial management of the entire Civil Protection System.

Nie Juan, researcher of the National Disaster Reduction Center of China’s Ministry of Emergency Management, has been long engaged in disaster risk management and spatial technology research for disaster reduction. She has successively been involved in the national assessment and risk monitoring and early warning of major disasters such as the early 2008 low temperature, freezing rain and snow storm in southern China, the May 12 Wenchuan earthquake of 2008, the 2020 Yangtze River Basin floods, and the 2021 Henan floods. She has presided over or participated in more than 20 major engineering and scientific research projects of national and international cooperation. As an important participant, Nie founded and built the national comprehensive disaster monitoring and evaluation system and business system based on remote sensing, gradually formed the technical framework, methodologies and specifications for remote sensing evaluation of major natural disasters, and proposed and established the damage assessment methodology for major natural disasters based on the Comprehensive Disaster Damage Index. She compiled an atlas of monitoring and evaluation of major natural disaster and contributed to three published monographs and two national standards. She obtained three invention patents, and published over 20 academic papers in academic journals of importance at home and abroad. Nie has own the Gold Award for Excellent Chinese Geographic Information Projects, the second prize of Geographic Information Technology Progress Award, and the first prize of Innovative Science and Technology Achievement Award of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, as well as the Third-Grade Merit once.

Katiuscia Fara is a Senior Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction Advisor with the World Food Programme in the Asia Pacific region, where she leads a small team working at the nexus between climate, disaster risk reduction and resilience. With over 20 years of experience, Katiuscia's work has focused on climate and disaster risk management, environmental management, poverty reduction and food security with different organizations. A key area of work for Katiuscia is supporting the translation of scientific knowledge into action to empower vulnerable communities to adapt to climate variability and change including early warning systems, digital agrometeorological advisories and climate services.