Organization

Region: Asia

Joining Date: May 2026

The Iraq Climate Change Center (IC3+) is a national institution focused on climate policy, adaptation planning, and climate risk analysis in Iraq. The Center contributes to national-level climate assessments, technical advisory work, and stakeholder coordination on climate resilience and loss and damage. Its activities include supporting climate mainstreaming, conducting assessments, and engaging public institutions in climate governance processes.

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: January 2026

Created in 1948, IUCN is now the world’s largest and most diverse environmental network, harnessing the knowledge, resources and reach of our more than 1,400 Member organisations and 17,000 experts. This diversity and expertise makes IUCN the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it. IUCN's Members, expert Commissions and Secretariat work together in a combined effort to conserve nature and accelerate the transition to sustainable development.

Expert

Region: Africa

Joining Date: April 2026

James Thonjo is a climate policy expert with extensive experience in loss and damage under the UNFCCC framework. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism and as an Enhanced Transparency Framework technical expert reviewer. He has led Kenya’s integration of loss and damage into its NDC and Biennial Transparency Reports and has supported both technical assistance and climate finance processes at the national level. His work spans national planning, climate finance, and community resilience building.

Expert

Region: Global

Joining Date: April 2026

Joel Persson is an interdisciplinary researcher focusing on co-creating participatory methodologies to assess and monitor loss and damage and engaging in multi-stakeholder processes that advance more inclusive policy solutions. He has over eight years of research experience in natural resource governance, climate change, and rural livelihoods, employing a range of methods to holistically measure and craft measures to address (non-)economic loss and damage in rural communities. 

Expert

Region: Oceania

Joining Date: December 2024

Joseph Cuthbertson is a Board Member of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) and has worked in the hospital, humanitarian and prehospital field for the last 20 years. He is also a fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons Facult

Expert

Region: Africa

Joining Date: June 2026

Dr Joyce Kimutai is a climate scientist specializing in climate change attribution, vulnerability assessment and evidence generation for loss and damage. Her work focuses on extreme weather and climate events, including floods, droughts and heatwaves, and explores how attribution science can support policy processes, climate litigation and loss and damage responses. She supports technical assistance through climate risk analysis, non-economic loss and damage assessment, early warning systems, capacity building, and science-policy engagement. She has contributed to IPCC work and supports UNFCCC processes, including research and systematic observation discussions.

Expert

Region: Global

Joining Date: March 2026

Jutta May is an Information and Knowledge Management Specialist with over 30 years of experience, including 20 years in the Pacific region. Her work supports the design, development, and management of data and information systems for disaster risk reduction and climate change. This includes research, data governance, needs analysis, co-design, strategy and policy advice, metadata, capacity development, and project management to optimize the use of data, information, and collections. Jutta holds a Master of Information Studies with Knowledge Management Specialisation, based in Australia.  

Expert

Region: Asia, Oceania

Joining Date: April 2026

Karen’s mission is to advance understanding of climate-related non-economic losses and support equitable responses that are locally led and grounded in community values. She works with governments, NGOs, and communities across the Asia-Pacific to generate evidence on the social and cultural impacts of climate change. Her expertise strengthens the Santiago Network’s role in providing effective, context-specific technical assistance to countries facing loss and damage. 

Expert

Region: Global

Joining Date: June 2026

Dr. Keith Bettinger is a climate change adaptation and finance specialist with more than a decade of experience supporting vulnerable countries on climate policy, National Adaptation Plans, climate risk and vulnerability assessments, institutional capacity strengthening and climate finance access. He has worked extensively with least developed countries and small island developing states, including across the Pacific, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. His experience includes developing GCF, Adaptation Fund and GEF-LDCF proposals, supporting NAP processes, and providing technical assistance on adaptation, project development, capacity building and loss and damage.

Expert

Region: Asia

Joining Date: May 2025

Dr. Kelly Dorkenoo is a researcher and policy adviser on climate governance, with a PhD on loss and damage. Her work focuses on supporting climate-affected countries and communities to assess and address loss and damage, particularly in agrifood systems across Asia. She combines theoretical knowledge with tailored methodologies to support locally-led assessments of economic and non-economic loss and damage, develop evidence-based national L&D frameworks and support measures for affected communities. Her key areas of expertise include capacity-building, policy framework design, development of participatory methodologies, and training delivery. Previously, she worked on climate adaptation governance at the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre.

Organization

Region: Global, Europe

Joining Date: May 2026

KnowlEdge Srl works on simulation models that inform policy and investment decisions, particularly in the fields of green economy, climate change adaptation and risk reduction. Its work includes support for nationally determined contributions, resilience index development for African countries, infrastructure resilience, and loss and damage quantification and simulation. With demonstrated experience across Africa and Asia since at least 2019, KnowlEdge combines modelling, policy analysis and investment planning expertise to support climate-resilient decision-making.

Network

Region: Latin America and the Caribbean

Joining Date: October 2025

The LAC Women’s Network for DRR, created in 2021, brings together around 1,500 women professionals and volunteers in DRR across Latin America and the Caribbean. Its mission is to foster an inclusive and collaborative space where women in all their diversity can share experiences and generate innovative solutions for DRR. With a gender-intersectional approach, the Network amplifies women’s leadership across the region to influence policies and decision-making, and practices.