1. Professor of Risk and Disaster Reduction at University College London United Kingdom
2. Professor of Geography at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and is Extraordinary Professor in the Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management at North West University South Africa
3. Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, United Kingdom, and is Professor II at the University of Agder Norway
4. Associate Professor at Università Politecnica delle Marche Italy
5. Professor of Geography at Middlesex University United Kingdom
6. Professor and Director of the African Centre for Disaster Studies at North West University South Africa
7. Researcher at the Joint Centre for Disaster Research at Massey University, New Zealand, and is a PhD student at the Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand