Convener

Iftekhar Ahmed, PhD

Associate Professor 

School of Architecture and Built Environment 

University of Newcastle, Australia 

ifte.ahmed@newcastle.edu.au 

Co-Convener

Imon Chowdhooree, PhD

Executive Director

Cell for Adaptation, Resilience, Security, and Humanitarian Assistance (CARSHA) 

and  

Associate Professor 

Department of Architecture 

BRAC University, Bangladesh 

imonch@bracu.ac.bd

Md. Rashed Bhuyan, PhD

Director (Resilience and Vulnerability) 

Cell for Adaptation, Resilience, Security, and Humanitarian Assistance (CARSHA) 

and  

Associate Professor 

Department of Architecture 

BRAC University, Bangladesh 

reshed.bhuyan@bracu.ac.bd 

Member

Basanta Raj Adhikari, PhD 

Director 

Centre for Disaster Studies 

Tribhuvan University, Nepal 

bradhikari@ioe.edu.np 

S. M. Maksud Kamal, PhD

Vice Chancellor 

University of Dhaka, Bangladesh 

vcoffice@du.ac.bd 

Mahbuba Nasreen, PhD 

Pro-Vice Chancellor (Academic) 

Bangladesh Open University, Bangladesh 

Professor & Former Director  

Institute of Disaster Management and Vulnerability Studies, University of Dhaka 

mnasreen@du.ac.bd; mnasreen@bou.ac.bd 

Fuad Hassan Mallick, PhD 

Dean 

School of Architecture and Design 

BRAC University, Bangladesh 

fuad@bracu.ac.bd 

Richard Haigh, PhD 

Co-Director, Global Disaster Resilience Centre 

University of Huddersfield, UK 

R.Haigh@hud.ac.uk 

Dilanthi Amaratunga, PhD 

Professor, Disaster Risk Reduction and Management  

Head, Global Disaster Resilience Centre 

University of Huddersfield, UK 

d.amaratunga@hud.ac.uk 

Tapan Sarker, PhD 

Professor 

School of Business 

University of Southern Queensland, Australia 

sarkertk@gmail.com 

Deepthi Wickramasinghe, PhD 

Senior Professor 

Department of Zoology and Environment Sciences 

Faculty of Science 

University of Colombo, Sri Lanka 

deepthi@zoology.cmb.ac.lk 

Mahua Mukherjee, PhD 

Professor 

Department of Architecture and Planning 

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee 

India 

mahua.mukherjee@ar.iitr.ac.in 

Shobha Poudel, PhD 

Marie Curie Research Fellow 

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei 

Milano, Italy 

p.shabhu@gmail.com 

R. L. H. Lalith Rajapakse, PhD 

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering 

University of Moratuwa 

Sri Lanka 

rlhlalith@gmail.com; lalith@uom.lk 

Tanjil Sowgat, PhD 

Professor 

Department of Urban and Rural Planning 

Khulna University, Bangladesh 

tsowgat@urp.ku.ac.bd 

Thayaparan Gajendran, PhD 

Associate Professor  

School of Architecture and Built Environment (Construction Management (Building)) 

University of Newcastle 

Australia 

thayaparan.gajendran@newcastle.edu.au 

Syed Mahbubur Rahman, PhD 

Associate Professor 

BRAC Business School 

BRAC University, Bangladesh 

s.rahman@bracu.ac.bd 

Jason Kyle von Meding, PhD 

Associate Professor  

Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER) 

University of Florida, USA 

jason.vonmeding@ufl.edu 

Indrajit Pal, PhD 

Associate Professor and Chair 

Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management 

Department of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (CIE) 

Asian University of Technology (AIT) 

Thailand 

indrajit-pal@ait.ac.th 

Nuno Martins, PhD 

University of Lisbon 

Portugal 

afonsonunohenriquemartins@gmail.com 

Jiwnath Ghimire, PhD 

Assistant Professor 

Department of Community & Regional Planning 

Iowa State University 

IA 50011, USA 

jghimire@iastate.edu 

Irfan Ahmad Rana, PhD 

Assistant Professor 

NUST Institute of Civil Engineering 

National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan. 

irfanrana90@hotmail.com 

Chandana Siriwardana, PhD

 Senior Lecturer 

School of Built Environment 

Massey University, New Zealand 

chandanasiriwardana@gmail.com 

Thomas Cooper-Johnson, PhD 

Lecturer 

School of Architecture and Built Environment 

University of Newcastle, Australia 

thomas.johnson@newcastle.edu.au