Biography
Ms Gabrielle Iglesias is a Capacity Building Specialist in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation, and an international consultant who works towards raising organizational capacities for disaster risk management and climate change adaptation. She has more than fifteen years of experience in supporting climate resilience, and is currently the Business Continuity Planning Lead for the Philippine Commission on Higher Education’s project to encourage business continuity planning by institutions of higher learning. Ms Iglesias has worked in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, the Philippines, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam. She worked for the United Nations (South Korea), the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (Thailand), the Southeast Asia One Health University Network (Thailand), and was a tenured assistant professor of public administration at the University of the Philippines.
Featured Panel Presentation (2023) | Enhancing Resilience in Higher Education: The Philippine Experience
