Expert

Region: Asia, Global

Joining Date: December 2024

Professor Edris Alam brings over 22 years of teaching experience in public universities across the UK, Australia, Bangladesh, and the UAE. His research interests span a wide range of fields, including climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction (DRR), business continuity management, public health emergencies, and integrated emergency management to enhance resilience. Dr. Alam earned his PhD in Disaster Risk Reduction from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. In his career, he has served in various capacities for national governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and United Nations agencies. Dr Alam has authored over 100 research articles in major international journals.

Expert

Region: Asia, Global, Oceania, Latin America and the Caribbean

Joining Date: December 2024

Edward Turvill is a climate resilience expert with extensive experience addressing climate change impacts in vulnerable regions. His work supports the Santiago network’s mission by providing technical assistance to developing countries, focusing on capacity building, climate finance, and integrating climate risk into planning. With experience in the Asia-Pacific and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), he has led and advised disaster risk reduction and recovery projects. His collaborative, multi-stakeholder approach strengthens global efforts on climate resilience and loss and damage.

Expert

Region: Global, Asia, Oceania

Joining Date: June 2026

Emma O'Neill is a climate risk and resilience specialist with experience supporting governments, utilities and development partners across the Pacific, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Her expertise includes climate risk and vulnerability assessments, climate hazard analysis, resilient infrastructure, integrated water management, organizational strengthening and stakeholder engagement. She supports institutions to improve resilience planning, climate-informed decision-making and disaster risk reduction through technical analysis, training, facilitation and capacity-building. Her work focuses on strengthening organizational and sectoral responses to climate-related risks and shocks.

Organization

Region: Africa

Joining Date: August 2025

ENDA Energie is an international non-governmental organization created in 1982 and based in Dakar, Senegal and a member of the international network Environment-Development of the Third World (ENDA-TM). It is very involved in issues and actions related to energy, adaptation to climate change and mitigation of its effects, as well as gender in Africa. It is thus committed to simultaneously addressing the interdependent problems of equitable access to sustainable energy, climate change and natural resource governance in a perspective of triple energy-ecological-citizen transition.

Network

Region: Africa

Joining Date: August 2025

Endorois Indigenous Women Empowerment Network (EIWEN) is a women- and disability-led Indigenous organization in Kenya advancing climate justice, human rights, and cultural resilience. EIWEN empowers Endorois Indigenous women, girls, and persons with disabilities through advocacy, traditional knowledge, and inclusive disaster risk response. By centering intersectionality and community leadership, EIWEN contributes to the Santiago Network’s mission to strengthen locally led, rights-based responses to climate loss and damage.

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: December 2024

Equal Right is a global campaign working on economic justice without borders. Rooted in the principle that everyone has an 'equal right' to the world's wealth and resources, they focus on researching ambitious solutions to tackle inequality, redistribute global wealth and secure fundamental human rights for people everywhere. This includes international advocacy on the role of unconditional, individual, regular cash payments to support climate justice, including as a policy response for loss and damage.

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: February 2026

ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence (CoE) is a Digital Innovation Hub and a reference Centre for Earth Observation, Space technology and Geospatial Information in the Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East, and North Africa (EMMENA) region. ERATOSTHENES CoE offers timely information to communities and stakeholders covering the entire disaster management cycle, i.e., preparation, response, recovery, and mitigation, against various environmental hazards, such as earthquakes, landslides, coastal/soil erosion, forest fires, floods, drought and epidemics.

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: July 2026

Esri Global Inc. develops ArcGIS, a leading geographic information system (GIS) platform, and provides professional consulting services to governments, international organizations and other partners worldwide. Through its Professional Services division, Esri supports climate resilience, disaster risk management, damage assessment and sustainable development by designing and implementing GIS solutions, enterprise information systems, geospatial strategies and decision-support tools. Its work helps organizations analyse, visualize and manage spatial data to strengthen planning and responses to climate-related risks.

Organization

Region: Africa, Asia, Europe

Joining Date: January 2026

The European Institute of Peace is an independent mediation support and conflict resolution organisation with the aim of creating conditions for peace. Since 2020, EIP's Climate and Environmental Peacemaking Programme (CEPM) has supported governments and communities in fragile contexts that are particularly vulnerable to climate change. CEPM has delivered integrated climate and conflict analyses, conducted consultations and dialogues on environmental and climate risks, strengthened environmental governance, supported horizontal/vertical collaboration between decision-makers and provided policy-oriented technical assistance to national and local actors, supporting responses to climate-related loss and damage.

Organization

Region: Asia

Joining Date: June 2026

EvalYemen is a Yemen-based organization and professional network specializing in monitoring, evaluation, learning and institutional capacity building. Established in 2018, it supports civil society, public institutions and development partners through evaluations, digital data collection, training, policy development and evidence-based planning. Its emerging climate work includes disaster risk reduction and the Yemen Loss and Damage Hub, an offline-capable digital platform designed to document, validate and analyse economic and non-economic climate impacts in conflict-affected settings.

Expert

Region: Global

Joining Date: July 2026

Dr. Fernanda Senra de Moura is a climate economist with over 15 years of experience in climate impact assessment, loss and damage, and climate finance. She supports governments and international organizations in developing loss and damage assessment methodologies, financing frameworks, national strategies and public financial management approaches. Her expertise includes post-disaster damage and loss assessments, climate risk financing, adaptive social protection, macroeconomic and labour market analysis, and the design of country-specific information systems for loss and damage.

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: October 2024

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) leads global efforts to achieve food security and end hunger by ensuring people have regular access to sufficient, high-quality food for active, healthy lives. With 195 members and operations in over 130 countries, FAO promotes sustainable agriculture, climate resilience and inclusive rural development. FAO’s mission aligns with the Santiago network by providing technical assistance and capacity development on loss and damage to support climate-vulnerable communities, ensuring food systems remain resilient amidst climate change impacts.