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.

PhD, professor, director of comprehensive disaster risk monitoring and early warning center, National Disaster Reduction Center of China, MEM. Mainly engaged in natural disaster risk assessment, governance technology research and national integrated operation system construction for disaster reduction. He received his Bachelor degree in Geography from Northwest Normal University in 1997, then in 2001 he obtained a master's degree in natural geography from Harbin Normal University. He received his PhD. from Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2004. Since 2004, he has served National Disaster Reduction Center of China as research associate, associate professor, and professor.

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.