International Urban Resilience Academy
International Urban Resilience Academy (IURA) is a transdisciplinary platform for education, research and networking activities on Urban Resilience at Civil and Architectural Engineering, University of Southern Denmark. International Urban Resilience Academy will include teaching/educational activities:
1.
Urban Resilience Intensive Training (for practitioners, policy makers and researchers)running yearly in Copenhagen DK or online, from 2019.
2.
Short Courses Urban Resilience, half a day or one day, (for practitioners, policy makers and researchers) to be organized on demand from 2020. World Urban Resilience Intensive Trainings organized on demand, lead/co-organized with partner organizations worldwide.
3.
Regional training started from 2023 for asia an dpacific (collaboration with adpc)
4.
DANIDA DFC
Partners

Expert Committee
Programme Specialist, Water for Human Settlements,
International Hydrological Progamme,SC/HYD/GSS,
Natural Sciences Sector United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO

Senior Programme Manager
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Senior Advisor,
WWF Cities
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
Senior Project Manager, Munich Re Foundation

Founder and International director (non-executive)
AsociaciónAdapt-Chile
Lead Urban
Development and Energy Efficiency Specialist, Green Climate Fund
Head of the City Resilience Profiling Programme, UN-Habitat
Independent Consultant
Policy Advisor on Cities and Climate Change,
Sector Project Urbanisation, GIZ Bonn
Associate Professor in Urban and Environmental Planning
IUAV University of Venice
Full Professor in Regional and Urban Planning,
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning,
Politecnico di Torino, Coordinator of Responsible Risk Resilience Centre – R3C,
Politecnico di Torino
Adaptation Specialist, Asia-Pacific
CTC-N, Climate Technology Centre and Network
Global Lead, WWF CITIES, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
Founding Member of RECNET.
Recycling the City Network Coordinator,
UNESCO Chair on Sustainability at UPC
PhD, Manager of the "Impacts, Vulnerability, & Risks" subprogramme,
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Co-Founder, Nordic Urban Resilience Institute (NURI)

Coordinator, Urban & Municipal Development Fund
African Development Bank
Infrastructure & Urban Development Department (PICU)
Scientist, Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz Center Geesthacht
Manager of the Low Emissions Development Program,
Director of Bonn Center for Local Climate Action and Reporting (carbonn Center),
Director of Business Development at ICLEI World Secretariat

Senior Human Settlements Officer
United Nations Human Settlement Programme
UN-Habitat
Regional Office for Africa
Professor, Dept. of Geography, Teaching and Research Unit for Human-Environment Relations
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Research Assistant in Regional and Urban Planning,
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning,
Politecnico di Torino

Climate and Disater Resilience Lead
ARUP International Development
Associate Professor of spatial planning and strategy,
Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment,
Delft University of Technology
Director, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD),
Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB)
Head of Office Incheon, Office for Northeast Asia (ONEA) and Global Education and Training Institute (GETI)
UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

Dr, Associate Director
Inclusive and resilient cities lead
ARUP International Development
Coordinator, Urban Climate Change Programme and Country Coordinator,
ACCCRN Bangladesh International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD),
Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB)

Researcher
Italian National Agency for New Technologies,
Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA)

Global Executive Director
The Resilience Shift
Co-Founder, Nordic Urban Resilience Institute (NURI)
Associate Academic Officer,
United Nations University
Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)