Prof. N Vinod Chandra Menon

Prof. N. Vinod Chandra Menon is an alumnus of Kerala University and Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has over 37 years working experience in the fields of disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and public policy analysis. Currently he is Adjunct Professor at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and Advisor Amrita School of Sustainable Development; Regional Director Asia at The International Emergency Management Society TIEMS (tiems.info; tiems.org), headquartered at Oslo, Norway; Member of the Advisory Board of Quantectum AG, Switzerland headquartered at Ljubljana, Slovenia (quantectum.com); Member of the Peer Committee on  “Technological Preparedness for Dealing with National Disruptions” established by the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE); President of RedR India (redr.org.in); Senior Advisor and Mentor of the International Institute of Information Technology ISquareIT, Pune (isquareit.edu.in); Member of the Governing Board of Swayam Shikshan Prayog  (sspindia.org); Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre of Excellence in Disaster Management (CoEDM) at the Development Management Institute (DMI), Patna; Senior Advisor and Data Evangelist of India Excellence Foundation; and Mentor of engineering students participating in the eYantra Innovation Challenge (eYIC) of IIT Bombay.

Prof. Menon was nominated by the Prime Minister of India as one of the Founder Members of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) with the status of a Union Minister of State in the Government of India from 2005 to 2010. Prior to that he was in charge of emergency preparedness and response in the UNICEF India Country Office from 2002 to 2005, and Professor and Head of the Centre for Disaster Management at the Yeshwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YASHADA), Pune, responsible for training senior administrators of the Government of Maharashtra. He is a recipient of the 2010 SKOCH Award for his contributions in the field of disaster management. He has authored several publications and is Co-Editor of Humanitarian Logistics published by Springer in 2010.