Atiq Kainan Ahmed

Atiq is is a prominent regional professional and working with ADPC's Climate Resilience team as the Technical Lead (Climate Risk Management). His specialized portfolio is on developing Climate Risk Management, Resilience, Community-based Early Warning Systems (CBEWS), Societal applications among others. He helps climate and disaster resilience in the region, countries, communities and targeted systems involving science, compound risk management, system integration and societal applications in an end-to-end manner. In the last couple of decades he has lead dozens of portfolio climate resilience projects/programs in Asian countries. He has worked with initiatives with CEGIS, ADB, USIOTWS/USAID, ADPC, IDS-Plan International Asia Regional Office, and others. Since 2004 Tsunami, Atiq has worked in various flagship Regional Multi-country programs including: US Government’s “Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System (US IOTWS)” program, UNESCAP’s multi-country “Regional Tsunami Trust Fund (RTTF)” implementation projects, “Coastal Community Resilience (CCR)” regional initiatives of USIOTWS and UNESCAP, NOAA-USAID-Univ. of Washington facilitated “International Tsunami Training Institute (ITTI)” initiative, DFID-IDS-Plan facilitated multi-regional “Strengthening Climate Resilience (SCR)”, DFID's BRACED program, World Bank's Weather and Climate Services project, “ASEAN Partnership Group” civil society support to ASEAN AADMER among others. He has worked extensively in multiple eco-systems including coastal zone, drought prone dry areas/drylands, riverine floodplains, wetlands, urban areas, and hill systems. He holds two masters and one bachelors (Hons) degrees in various areas of Social Sciences including fields of Applied Anthropology. He has studied at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London which is the highest ranked anthropology department of the U.K. He is also an honorable fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) USA and a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), U.K. and an Expert Reviewer of IPCC's AR5 and AR6 in various working groups.

Joined 2013

Organisation

ADPC