Humanitarian Work in a Changing Climate: How can the Ford School and the Red Cross help each other? | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Type: Public event

Humanitarian Work in a Changing Climate: How can the Ford School and the Red Cross help each other?

Date & time

Nov 8, 2010, 4:00-5:30 pm EST

Location

Weill Hall

Pablo Suarez is the Associate Director of Programs, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and a consultant to the Environment Finance Group, United Nations Development Programme. His work as researcher and consultant investigates the integration of climate information into decision making for reducing vulnerability, both at community level and through national and global policies. He has consulted about climate change at Oxfam America; World Food Programme (WFP); Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); World Bank; ProVention Consortium; Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Suarez earned his BS degrees in Civil and Hydraulic Engineering; MA in Community Planning and Development; and Ph.D. in Geography from Boston University.

This event is co-sponsored by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program.