Kavinda Gunasekara is the Associate Director at the Geoinformatics Center (GIC), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Thailand. He holds an affiliated faculty position in the School of Environment, Resources & Development, AIT. Over the past 15 years, he was involved in implementing geospatial related projects in South, Southeast, and Central Asian countries. He is extensively involved in mapping river and coastal morphological changes, spatial-temporal river discharge mapping using Satellite Remote Sensing, and related applied research using geospatial data. He leads the UNEP CounterMEASURE Phase I & II project components in AIT. He holds a doctorate in Coastal Engineering from the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan.