Irina Rafliana
Ph.D. Researcher, German Development Institute (DIE) & BRIN Indonesia
Irina Rafliana is affiliated with BRIN and is currently a Ph.D. researcher at the German Development Institute (DIE) and the University of Bonn. Trained in sociology, her working thesis is Social Constructions of Technology: The Indonesian Tsunami Warning System.
She worked on and also led several programs in the area of science communication, risk assessment, social aspects of the tsunami warning system and risk reductions as well as inter-/transdisciplinary capacity building on DRR in the past 18 years. She led several national assessments on the effectiveness of the tsunami warning system based on real events in Indonesia (2012–2016) and the assessment for the Palu 2018 tsunami with UNDRR – UNESCO. Rafliana graduated with a master’s degree from the University of Indonesia in 2015 (thesis: Social Constructions of Knowledge on Tsunamis in Mentawai Islands), where she also spent time living-in with survivors at the post-disaster resettlement.
She was a member of the Global Science and Technology Advisory Group (STAG) for the UNDRR from 2017–2019 and is currently Vice Chair of the working group on the Dissemination of European Tsunami Science Consortium (AGITHAR). She is one of the U-INSPIRE advisors.
SPEAKERS & MODERATORS
Jerome Aucan
Head of the Pacific Community Center for Ocean Science, The Pacific Community (SPC), Fiji/New Caledonia
Claudia C. Baron-Aguilar
Ph.D. student, University of South Florida (USF) & Member of the Wayuu indigenous community
Silvia Chacon-Barrantes
Coordinator, National Tsunami Monitoring System (SINAMOT)
Professor, National University of Costa Rica
Anna-Katharina Hornidge
Director, German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Germany
Simone Pennafirme
Manager, Marine Life Center, Secretariat for Environment of the City Hall of Rio de Janeiro
Jacqueline Yamileth Rivera Ayala
Civil engineer and vulcanological monitoring coordinator, Hazards Monitoring Center, DOA, MARN
Emiliano Rodriguez Nuesch
Director at Pacifico risk communications agency and consultant in risk communications and behavioral science
Vladimir Ryabinin
Executive Secretary, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO
Raul Salazar
Chief of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), Secretariat for the Americas, Panama
Ria Sen
Lead Preparedness Officer, Global Emergency Telecommunications Cluster, World Food Programme
Sebastian Unger
Head of Ocean Governance Research Group, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, Germany
Christa von Hillebrandt-Andrade
Deputy Director, International Tsunami Information Center, Caribbean Office, Puerto Rico