Dr Kamal Ahmed is Executive Director – Risk Finance at the National Disaster Management Authority, Pakistan, and Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Economic Resilience. A specialist in risk finance, climate finance and investment pipeline development, he has more than 15 years of international experience across South Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, the Balkans, the Americas, the Caribbean and the Pacific. He has held senior roles with the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, the National Disaster Risk Management Fund, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and the World Bank. He also serves as International Consultant on Risk Finance with UNDP and as Adjunct Professor of Climate Change at the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Islamabad. His expertise spans economic modelling of natural hazards, system dynamics, multisectoral interlinkages, disaster risk financing, climate finance and the economics of resilience. He holds a PhD in the Economics of Natural Hazards from the University School for Advanced Studies (IUSS) Pavia, Italy.