International

Richard J.T. Klein
Postdam Institute for Climate Change Impact Research (PIK)
Expertise: Vulnerability and adaptation to climate variability and Change
Email: richard.klein@sei.se

Professional Experience: Richard Klein is a senior researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute and a visiting researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). He has an interdisciplinary background with degrees from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the University of East Anglia and the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Richard has fourteen years of experience as a researcher and seniour researcher on societal vulnerability and adaptation to climate variability and change.
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Saleemul Huq
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Expertise: Links between climate change and sustainable development in developing countries

Email: saleemul.huq@iied.org

Professional Experience: Dr. Saleemul Huq is presently the Head of the climate change program of International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), in London, UK. Over the last 4 years he has led the IIED team on climate change, played a key role on capacity building on Climate Change Adaptation and emerged as the key leader in adaptation, science, negotiations and project activities. He is the Chairman of the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), Dhaka , Bangladesh , which is the major non-government research and policy institute working on environment and development related issues in Bangladesh . He is a leading environmental planner at national and international level having worked for numerous international agencies on global environmental issues. He has advised national government planners and international funding agencies on environment and climate change programmes.
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Hannah Reid
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Expertise: Links between climate change and sustainable development in developing countries
Email: Hannah.reid@iied.org  


Professional Experience: Dr Hannah Reid joined the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in December 2001 as part of the mining minerals and sustainable development project team. Within IIED, she has worked for the human settlements program and the biodiversity and livelihoods group, and is currently a researcher with the climate change group, which she joined in May 2002. Prior to employment at IIED, she spent three years in South Africa working as a consultant and conducting research for her PhD in Biodiversity Management. Her research assessed whether community-owned national parks were ecologically, socially and economically sustainable. She has also worked in the Philippines, Australia, Zimbabwe and Zambia with a variety of government agencies, non-government organizations, donors and community organizations. 
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Beth Henriette
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Expertise: Links between climate change and sustainable development in developing countries
Email: beth.henriette@iied.org
Professional Experience: Beth Henriette joined IIED in 2005 after completing her Masters degree in World Trade and Development, specialising in Fairtrade issues. While studying she also worked for Partnership for World Mission (PWM). Prior to that she worked for the Archbishop of Canterbury for four years in his International
Relations Office. Since joining the Climate Change Group at IIED, Beth has participated in international workshops and conferences including COP11 in Montreal and COP12 in Nairobi and the 2nd International Workshop on Community Based Adaptation in Dhaka. She is responsible for administration and various aspects of project management in the Climate Change Group at IIED. This includes managing CLACC contracts and arranging CLACC meetings.
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Sari Kovats
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Expertise: Public health, climate change, risk, infectious disease, environment
Email: sari.kovats@lshtm.ac.uk 

Professional Experience: Sari Kovats is a lecturer in environmental epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and is an expert on the assessment of the current and potential impacts of climate on human population health. She was the LSHTM partner in the EU-funded CCASSH project on developing adaptation strategies to reduce the health the impacts of climate change in Europe. She also participated in the forthcoming EUROHEAT projected, funded by DG SANCO on preventing the health impacts of weather extremes. Sari has been an expert advisor since 1996 on climate variability, climate change and health for WHO Geneva, and the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health (Rome). She is also a member of the WMO-Commission on the Climatology Expert Team 3.8 on Health-related climate indicators and their use in early warning systems, and was a member of the Technical Working Group on Research Needs for the EC Environment and Health Strategy in 2003/4. Sari is currently a lead author in fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and has worked extensively on previous assessments for the Panel. 
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Tom Downing
Stockhold Environment Institute, Oxford
Expertise: Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change and climatic hazards, with an emphasis on developing methods in participatory integrated assessment (primarily using agent-based social simulation)
Email: tom.downing@sei.se 

Professional Experience: Dr Thomas E. Downing (PhD, Geography, Clark University) is the Executive Director of the Oxford office of the Stockholm Environment Institute and nominated director of the planned UNEP Collaborating Center on Climate Adaptation (with a secretariat in Stockholm and Oxford). He has been the science advisor to the UK Climate Impacts Program, and research fellow in the University of Birmingham and National Center for Atmospheric Research.
Currently he is visiting professor in the School of Geography and Environment and visiting research associate at Queen Elisabeth House, Oxford University as well as senior research fellow in the SEI center at York University. He collaborates with the United Nations University Environment and Human Security Program, through a chair in social vulnerability funded by Munich Re Foundation. He has published over 100 papers, books, reports and book reviews.
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