Natalia Alonso Cano
Ms. Natalia Alonso Cano is Chief of Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia, UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. She joined UNDRR bringing over 25 years of professional experience in international development and partnerships. An agronomic engineer, she has worked 9 years overseas, in India, the Dominican Republic, for the European Union and others. Previously, Ms. Cano was also Senior Adviser at UNICEF EU Office, Deputy Director at Oxfam International as well as Plan International and Amnesty International.
Christina Corbane
Christina Corbane is deputy head of the Disaster Risk Management Unit at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC). Her research focuses on the application of remote sensing and Earth observation to disaster risk assessment, resilience, and environmental change. Dr. Corbane holds a PhD in remote sensing applied to earth sciences and environmental sciences from Université Montpellier II. At the JRC she coordinates interdisciplinary projects and scientific platforms that support evidence-based policy implementation for disaster risk reduction and resilience in the European Union. Her work spans satellite data analysis, risk data platforms, and risk-informed decision support tools that bridge science, policy, and practice in disaster risk management.
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Jens O. Zinn
Jens O. Zinn holds the T.R. Ashworth Professorship in Sociology at the University of Melbourne. He is an internationally recognised scholar in the sociology of risk and uncertainty, with particular expertise in how individuals and social groups navigate uncertain futures in everyday life. His interdisciplinary work bridges sociological theory and applied risk studies, making influential conceptual contributions to modes of reasoning, risk-taking, and changes in risk-related discourses. His research on the phenomenology of risk has advanced the understanding of trust, hope, emotions, and embodied forms of engagement with uncertainty. His current research examines socially differentiated responses to the 2022 floods in Australia's Goulburn Valley, including issues of mobility, insurance, and housing, as well as broader questions of risk, resilience, and trust in socio-technical systems.
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Magda Osman
Magda Osman is a basic and applied psychologist by training and the author of over 170 peer-reviewed academic articles and two monographs. Her main areas of interest are decision-making under risk and uncertainty, folk beliefs in the unconscious, information disorders (e.g. disinformation), and examining the effectiveness of methods of behavioural change in several sectors (e.g. defence, business compliance, food industry). She is Research Fellow at the El-Erian Institute of Behavioural Economics and Policy, University of Cambridge, Research Associate of the Centre for Existential Risk, University of Cambridge, and a Visiting Professor of Policy impact at Leeds Business School, University of Leeds.
Jorge Olcina
Jorge Olcina is Full Professor of Regional Geographic Analysis at the University of Alicante, where he teaches Spatial Planning, Climatology, and Natural Hazards. His research has focused on a range of geographical topics, including climatology, natural hazards, spatial planning, and geographical theory. He is the author of more than two hundred publications. He served as a reviewer for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change. He was President of the Spanish Association of Geography (AGE) from 2017 to 2021 and is currently Director of the Chair on Climate Change–Aguas de Alicante at the University of Alicante.