Bapon (SHM) Fakhruddin, PhD

Water and Climate Leader| Strategic Investment Partnerships and Co-Investments| Professor| EW4ALL| Board Member| Chair- CODATA TG| Award Winner (SDG 2021, EWS 2025)

Pan Asian International Water Law Training in Bangkok (8–11 Dec 2025)

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The Green Climate Fund‘s Board approved the Glaciers to Farms (G2F) Regional Program: Advancing Climate Resilience and Sustainable Development in Central and West Asia.

We spoke about how GCF is advancing climate resilience in transboundary water basins and mountain regions, highlighting our support for cross-border initiatives that strengthen water governance and climate adaptation. It was inspiring to share how climate finance can empower countries to work together on water security, ensuring communities upstream and downstream build resilience against floods, droughts, and other climate impacts.

G2F’s innovative program connects melting glaciers to farmland, supporting everything from high-mountain glacier monitoring to water security and climate-smart agriculture for downstream farmers. G2F will share examples of how partnerships can turn climate challenges into opportunities – protecting vital water resources and livelihoods across multiple countries. The enthusiastic response from participants reaffirmed the importance of collaborative action for climate resilience in transboundary basins.

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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