British, Ph.D in Geography from the London School of Economics and Political Science.  
Currently Coordinator of the Programme for the Social Study of Disaster Risk and Climate Change Adaptation at the Secretariat General’s Office of the Latin American Social Science Faculty-FLACSO- in San Jose, Costa Rica.  
Founding member of the Latin American Network for the Social Study of Disaster Prevention-LA RED.  
He has given more than 150 international conferences in 42 countries, written and published over 90 specialized items on disaster risk management and undertaken more than 90 consultancy missions in 22 different countries, for over 15 international agencies.  
He was awarded the 2015 UN Sasakawa prize for contributions to  disaster risk management under the theme “Forging the Future”.
His present work  involves support on  risk  reduction in  public investment, local level  training for climate action and sustainable development, urban  resettlement for risk  reduction, legal  and policy reform in  Africa and resilience in  Mozambique.