Prof. Mohamed Hamza

Mohamed Hamza is a Director at the Global Climate Adaptation Partnership (GCAP) where he is responsible for the Adaptation Academy and training and learning activities. He is an Independent Consultant and Professor of Disaster Risk Management and Vulnerability Studies at The Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP), Oxford Brookes University, UK and Lund University, Sweden.

His primary areas of professional expertise and research work are: Disaster risk and vulnerability reduction, post-disaster reconstruction and recovery, climate change impact and adaptation, environment and migration, and fragile and failed states. He is Munich Re Foundation Chair of Social Vulnerability at the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS). Professionally, he is a Senior Advisor to the Swedish Civil Contingency Agency (MSB), and to UNDP, BCPR and ISDR.

He has long experience with international development organizations - World Bank, UNDP, ISDR, USAID, DFID, IFRC, Sida, ActionAid, Swedish Red Cross, MSB and the Near East Foundation, and undertook consultancies in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Eritrea, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Liberia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan, and is currently working in South Eastern Europe and the Balkan States.