Mashauri Muliro works with UNDRR as a programme management officer, In charge of the early warning portfolio in the Regional Office for Africa. Before joining UNDRR, Mashauri worked with the World Bank as a Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Specialist, providing professional expertise and operational support in DRM and Urban Resilience Investment Projects. Prior to that, Mashauri worked as a Visiting Scientist at the United Nations University, working with the Vulnerability Assessments, Risk Management & Adaptive Planning (VARMAP) Section. As a Think-thank, VARMAP develops and applies conceptual frameworks and scientific methods to assess socio-economic vulnerability and risk in the context of natural hazards, environmental change and societal transformation. Other institutions where he worked include: FAO where he led the development of the Risk-based Integrated Watershed Management in Iran and co-authored the FAO Resilient Watershed Handbook; Welthungerhilfe where he led the development of the Drought Forecast-based Financing (FbF) in Madagascar, and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) where he worked on the climate change-conflict-migration nexus in the Lake Chad-Region among others. Mashauri has valuable DRM and urban resilience analytical capabilities spread across a wide geographical area (Africa, Europe and Asia) including work experience in Fragile and Conflict context. He holds a master’s degree in Geography of Environmental Risk and Human Security from the United Nations University in Bonn, Germany and a bachelor’s degree in Disaster Management and Sustainable Development from Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology in Kenya.”