RDR Monthly Event: Gender, Disaster, and the Sendai Framework: A Decade of Progress?

Shigeo Tatsuki is a disaster sociologist focused on long-term recovery for vulnerable populations since the 1995 Kobe Earthquake. His work includes leading longitudinal recovery surveys, contributing to inclusive disaster policy, and organizing international studies following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. His efforts in social science and disaster resilience have been widely recognised.

Kristen Guida is Head of Strategy, Prevention, and Community Resilience, and has been leading on City Resilience at the Greater London Authority since March 2022. Before that, she worked for more than 15 years coordinating climate change adaptation partnerships, as Manager of the London Climate Change Partnership, Director of Climate South East, and Chair of Climate UK. Her major interest is in bringing together people and ideas from across sectors to respond to social and environmental resilience challenges. In particular, she is interested in the social justice issues raised by climate change and other crises, and the need to incorporate equity in resilience policy and planning. Previously, she worked on human rights, as a Senior Researcher on political rights, civil liberties and press freedom at Freedom House in New York.

Dr Miwako Kitamura, a researcher at IRIDeS and Sasakawa USA Senior Fellow (non-resident), specialises in gender and disaster, with a focus on social vulnerability, women’s leadership, and community-driven disaster resilience.

Ilan Kelman is Professor of Disasters and Health at UCL and a Professor II at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. His overall research interest is linking disasters and health, integrating climate change into both.

Dr Punam Yadav is a Gender Scholar, Director of UCL Humanitarian Institute and Co-Director of the Centre for Gender and Disaster. One of Dr Yadav’s key contributions includes bringing conflict into the conversation of gender and disaster and seeing these as a continuum.