Amelia Rigsby
TV Producer and Host, FBCTV
TV Producer and Host, FBCTV
Amelia Rigsby began her 14-year career in radio at FM96 as a part-time radio host before being promoted to full-time mid-morning radio host, promotions coordinator and program director (station manager). She later worked as the co-host for FijiTV’s Breakfast Show for four and a half years, the only breakfast show broadcast live on television every weekday morning. At the same time, she was also working as the Communications Officer for Fiji’s audio-visual commission. Rigsby now works as a TV producer and host at FBCTV.
Head of the Pacific Community Center for Ocean Science, The Pacific Community (SPC), Fiji/New Caledonia
Ph.D. student, University of South Florida (USF) & Member of the Wayuu indigenous community
Coordinator, National Tsunami Monitoring System (SINAMOT)
Professor, National University of Costa Rica
Director, German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Germany
Manager, Marine Life Center, Secretariat for Environment of the City Hall of Rio de Janeiro
Civil engineer and vulcanological monitoring coordinator, Hazards Monitoring Center, DOA, MARN
Director at Pacifico risk communications agency and consultant in risk communications and behavioral science
Executive Secretary, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO
Chief of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), Secretariat for the Americas, Panama
Lead Preparedness Officer, Global Emergency Telecommunications Cluster, World Food Programme
Head of Ocean Governance Research Group, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, Germany
Deputy Director, International Tsunami Information Center, Caribbean Office, Puerto Rico