Dorothea Hilhorst

Professor of Humanitarian Aid & Reconstruction at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam

Dorothea Hilhorst is Professor of Humanitarian Aid & Reconstruction at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Her publications focus on the everyday politics and practices of humanitarian aid, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, reconstruction and peace building. Her major research programme at the moment concerns situations where conflicts meet disaster.

She is also the president of the International Humanitarian Studies Association.

Books include People, Aid and Institutions in Socio-Economic Recovery. Facing Fragilities (2016); and The Real World of NGOs: Discourse, Diversity and Development. (2003). Email: hilhorst@iss.nl Twitter: @hilhorst_thea

Intervention during the conference:

10:30 – 12:30 Workshops : Preventing health needs related to the combined effects of conflict and climate change

Programme of Tuesday 16 April 2019

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Doris SHOPPER

Member, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Bastien ALEX

Co-director of the Geopolitical Observatory of climate change impacts in terms of security and defense, French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS)