Ria Sen
Lead Preparedness Officer, Global Emergency Telecommunications Cluster, World Food Programme
Ria Sen is an M.Sc. alumna from the London School of Economics. She serves as Lead Preparedness Officer, Emergency Telecommunications Cluster, with the United Nations World Food Programme’s Technology Division (WFP) based in Rome. Her functions cover enhancing readiness and capacity of national governments to prepare for disasters, with reference to the emergency telecoms sector.
Prior to WFP, Sen worked on innovation, technology and DRR portfolios with UNDP, UNDRR, UNESCAP and the European Commission, serving in countries from Belgium to Fiji. In the academic arena, she has delivered guest lectures on artificial intelligence and tech applications for disaster/climate risk management in the UK, USA, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, Thailand and India.
She is a Global Panelist for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Tech Review publication and Advisor at the Harvard Business Review. Sen is a Reef Check diver, certified for assessing the health and conditions of tropical coral reefs globally.
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