STEERING COMMITTEE

Chairman

Dr Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, IAS
Chief Secretary, Govt of Uttarakhand

Members

Smt Radha Ratudi, IAS
Additional Chief Secretary
Govt of Uttarakhand

Sri Anand Vardhan, IAS
Additional Chief Secretary
Govt of Uttarakhand

CONVENER

Dr S Ananda Babu
President, DMICS

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Chairman

Dr Ranjit Kumar Sinha, IAS
Secretary
Department of Disaster Management
& Rehabilitation, Govt of Uttarakhand

Members

Sri Savin Bansal, IAS
Additional Secretary/ Additional CEO (Admin)
Uttarakhand State Disaster Management Authority
Govt of Uttarakhand

Sri R. K. Negi
Additional CEO (Operation)
Uttarakhand State Disaster Management Authority
Govt of Uttarakhand

Dr Tanzeem Ali
Finance Controller
Uttarakhand State Disaster Management Authority
Govt of Uttarakhand

Mohd. Obaidullah Ansari
Joint CEO
Uttarakhand State Disaster Management Authority
Govt of Uttarakhand

Dr Piyoosh Rautela
Executive Director
Uttarakhand State Disaster Management Authority
Govt of Uttarakhand

SCIENTIFIC & TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

Chairman

Prof Durgesh Pant
Director General
Uttarakhand Council of Science & Technology (UCOST),
Dehradun

Members

Dr R P Singh
Director
Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS)
Dehradun

Dr Kala Chand Sain
Director
Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology
Dehradun

Dr Prasun Jana
Dy Director General
Geological Survey of India
Dehradun

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Chair

Prof. Anil Kumar Gupta
HoD, Director of Projects & COE, International Cooperation,
NIDM India

Co-Chair

Prof. P K Joshi
School of Environment Sciences,
Former Chair Special Centre For Disaster Research,
Jawaharlal Nehru University

Technical Director

Dr. Ray Kancharla,(PhD)
Humanitarian, DRR, CCA and Triple Nexus

Members

Dr. Geeta Vaidyanathan
B.Arch, MES, Phd, S&TC

Dr. Ramani Sankarnarayan, PhD

Dr. Kopal Verma, PhD

Dr. Chetna Joshi, PhD

Ms. Pritha Acharya

Ms. Richa Srivastva

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE(IOC)

Chair

Prof. N. Vinod Chandra Menon
Founder Member NDMA, India

Members

Prof. Ian Davis
Kyoto, Lund, Amrita University and RMIT Australia

Prof. Maureen Fordham
UCL UK

Prof. Peter McGowran
Oxford Brookes University UK

Prof. Rajib Shaw
Keio University, Japan

Aslam Perwaiz
ADPC Bangkok

Ram Kishan
Plan International, Nepal

Sobina Lama
Lumanti, Nepal

Dr. Roman Tandlich
Rhodes University, South Africa

Maite Rodriguez Blandon
Fundacion Guatemala

Harald Drager
TIEMS Oslo, Norway

Margret Arnold
World Bank, USA