Bapon (SHM) Fakhruddin, PhD

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Honoring Indigenous Wisdom: Guardians of Nature on Indigenous Peoples Day

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Bapon Fakhruddin

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Today, as we gather to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day, we honour the wisdom, resilience, and profound contributions of Indigenous communities who have cared for this planet since time immemorial. Across oceans, mountains, forests, and plains, Indigenous Peoples have been the guardians of Earth’s most precious ecosystems. Their voices remind us of a simple yet profound truth- “we are all part of nature, and protecting the earth means protecting ourselves”.

“Empathy is the path to inclusiveness, and inclusiveness is the path to healing the world.” Together, we can create a world where the wisdom of Indigenous Peoples steers us toward harmony with nature, where all communities thrive because no one is left behind!

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Dr Fakhruddin is an expert climate change risk assessor with 18 years’ global experience in working on disaster risk and climate resilience projects. This experience is a major advantage in climate change adaptation and mitigation strategy development. His key areas of expertise are climate and multi-hazard risk assessment, disaster preparedness, early warning and emergency response and coastal community resilience. He has designed climate change and disaster response projects more than 25 countries in Asia and the Pacific. During his career, Dr Fakhruddin helped to design major international multi-hazard early warning systems for floods, cyclone and tsunami to save life and property damage. His most high profile work has been developing multi-hazard warning systems including a tsunami warning system for Indian Ocean countries following the deadliest one in history – the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. Dr Fakhruddin is currently work as a mentor and supervisor for postgraduate study in disaster risk management in University of Auckland (UoA). He is a Science Committee Member of IRDR of ICSU/UNISDR, Co-Chair for the Disaster Loss DATA and Risk Interpretation and Applications (RIA) Working Group of IRDR of ICSU/UNISDR. He is also Co-Chair CODATA task group Linked Open Data for Global Disaster Risk Research (LODGD) and PSG member of the Coastal Inundation Forecasting Demonstration Project (CIFDP) and Open Panel of Commission for Hydrology Experts (OPACHE) of WMO. Recently Dr Fakhruddin appointed by the Government of New Zealand to develop national climate change risk assessment framework