Director Section for Disaster Reduction UNESCO, France

Badaoui Rouhban is Director of the Section for Disaster Reduction in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris. He manages and coordinates international activities related to the scientific, engineering and educational aspects of natural disaster studies and prevention. He is involved in global projects and mechanisms concerning disaster risk management. He holds a degree of Doctor of Engineering from the University ‘Pierre and Marie Curie’ in Paris and has carried out post-doctoral research at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.