UNU Experts

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Expert Research Associate

Greta Dekker

Greta Dekker is a researcher at UNU-EHS, where she works in the VARMAP division. She is particularly interested in conceptual risk modelling and the development of climate adaptation pathways, with a strong focus on engaging the private sector in building resilience to extreme weather events. Her research examines climate risk perception among different actor groups, the role of public-private partnerships in advancing nature-based solutions, and the co-creation of transdisciplinary adaptation strategies that align business interests with sustainability goals.

Expert Director of UNU-INRA

Dr. Fatima Denton

Dr. Fatima Denton is the Director (D2) of the United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA).

Expert Associate Academic Officer

Dr. Maria Bernadet Karina Dewi

Dr. Dewi is interested in enhancing the early warning systems through an integration of vulnerability and exposure components in multiple sectors, and in optimizing impact-based early warning in reducing disaster losses. Dr. Dewi is currently working on a project in co-developing an actionable impact-based early-warning systems in the IGAD region.

Expert Assistant Professor

Dr. Stephan Dietrich

Stephan Dietrich is an assistant professor at UNU-MERIT.

Expert Research Fellow, Environment-Conflict Nexus

Dr. Pinar Dinc

Dr. Pınar Dinç is a political scientist specializing in environmental peace and conflict studies, with a particular focus on the interplay between political power, climate and environmental change, ecological degradation, authoritarianism, resistance, and migration. 

Expert Research Consultant

Charmaine Distor

Charmaine Distor is a Research Consultant at the United Nations University (UNU-EGOV) since 2024. Prior to this, she was a Junior Research Assistant from August 2022 to September 2024. 

Expert Researcher Policy Making

Dr. Daniel Domínguez Gómez

Dr. Daniel Domínguez Gómez

Expert Adjunct Professor, Participatory Management and Community Engagement

Prof. Nancy Doubleday

Nancy Doubleday holds a PhD degree from Queen’s University and specializes in international law of indigenous peoples and environment, and in paleo-ecological reconstructions of climate change and anthropogenic impacts.

Expert Receptionist

Mieke Drossaert

Mieke Drossaert is Student Affairs Officer at UNU-MERIT.

Expert Project Associate

Linda Du Roy

Linda works as a Project Associate within MCII’s Climate Risk Finance Solutions team. She is primarily involved in the Pacific Insurance and Climate Adaptation Program (PICAP), as well as in the development and implementation of a new global program on Climate and Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance.

Expert Chief, Administrative and Programme Services

Werner Dubbeling

Werner Dubbeling is the Chief, Administrative and Programme Services at the UNU-MERIT

Expert Adjunct Professor

Dr. Timothy Dube

Dr Timothy Dube is an Adjunct Professor at UNU-FLORES.

Expert Assistant Professor

Dr. Talitha Dubow

Talitha Dubow is a migration researcher at UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University. 

Expert Policy and Communications Officer

Andrew Dunn

Andrew Dunn is the Policy and Communications Officer at UNU-CRIS.

Expert Associate Academic Officer

Dr. David Durand-Delacre

David Durand-Delacre is a human geographer and critical migration scholar interested in the political, cultural, and epistemological controversies arising from growing concern about climate change’s impact on human mobilities.

Expert Associate Sustainability Officer

Juliane Dziumla

Juliane Dziumla has been a member of UNU-FLORES since 2018 and is the co-founder of the Green Committee at the Institute.

Expert Professorial Fellow

Marijke D’Haese

Marijke D’Haese is a Professor in rural development economics at the Department of Agricultural Economics of Ghent University.

Expert Lead Research Associate

Bushra Ebadi

Bushra Ebadi has been with the United Nations University (UNU-EGOV) since 2022.

Expert Research Manager - Interconnected Disaster Risks

Caitlyn Eberle

Caitlyn Eberle is a research associate and one of the lead authors of the Interconnected Risks report, UNU-EHS's annual flagship publication

Expert Research Associate

Amina Ebrahim

Amina Ebrahim is a Research Associate at UNU-WIDER focusing on tax administrative data in South Africa.