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Dr. Alanna
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Dr Alanna Simpson is a Senior Disaster Risk
Management Specialist for the World Bank’s Global
Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR).
In this role, she leads the technical team
responsible for supporting the World Bank’s Disaster
Risk Management (DRM) regional teams in developing,
communicating and using disaster risk assessments,
and geospatial and remote sensing technologies. Dr
Simpson previously worked for the Australian
Government, where she led efforts to improve natural
hazard risk analysis capability in Asia and the
Pacific. Both roles involve working with a broad
range of scientific, mapping and disaster management
agencies across the region to develop new datasets,
methodologies and information on the risks from
meteorological and geophysical hazards. A New
Zealand and Australian national, Dr Simpson holds a
PhD in Geoscience (volcanology) from the University
of Queensland (Australia), a M.Sc. from the
University of Otago (New Zealand) and a B.Sc. from
the University of Auckland (New Zealand). |
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