Christine Wamsler
A trained architect, urban planner, and humanitarian aid worker, Dr. Wamsler is now Visiting Professor of Disaster Management and Recovery at Lund University, Sweden, and Lecturer on Urban Climate Change Adaptation at the Global Urban Research Centre of the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, UK. She has worked for various development and relief programs in Togo, India, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Peru, and for international agencies such as the Austrian and Belgian Red Cross, the German Development Service, the Swedish Organisation for Individual Relief, and local NGOs.