Murali Thummarukudy

Murali Thummarukudy

• Murali Thummarukudy is the Chief of Disaster Risk Reduction in the UN Environment Programme based in Geneva , Switzerland.
• He is a civil engineer by training and emergency response expert by profession from Kerala, India.
• He has been involved in post disaster response and follow up of almost all major disasters of the twenty-first century, including the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, Cyclone Nargis (Myanmar, 2008), Sichuan Earthquake (China, 2008), Haiti Earthquake (2010), Tohoku Tsunami (2011) and floods in Thailand (2011).
• He has also worked on post conflict environmental assessments of Rwanda, Iraq, Lebanon, occupied Palestinian territories and Sudan.
• Prior to joining the United Nations, Muralee was an Environmental Advisor to oil companies in the shell group in South East Asia and Middle East.
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