Indrajit Pal is an associate professor and the chair in the Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management (DPMM) academic program in the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. Dr. Pal. is Deputy Director of the Research Center "South- and South East Asia Multi-disciplinary Applied Research Network on Transforming Societies of Global South (SMARTS)" at AIT. He is Advisor to Disaster Risk Reduction and Governance in Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia (RIMES). He has more than 19 years of experience in research, teaching, training, advocacy, and consultancy, primarily focused on hazard and vulnerability assessment, disaster resilience, innovation, sustainable development, disaster risk governance, community-based approach for disaster risk management, public health risk, and DRR Education. Dr. Pal is supervising a number of doctoral and master’s degree researchers across Asia and Africa in the field of disaster risk management and governance. Dr. Pal has published 15 books and over 100 academic papers and book chapters. Some of his ongoing research includes disaster resilience and sustainable development education in Asia, risk characterization in Asian Delta communities in the "Living Deltas HUB" of the UK Research and Innovation–Global Challenges Research Fund (UKRI-GCRF) project.