Saurabh Dani
Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist at the World Bank
Saurabh has been working on disaster risk management and climate change adaptation projects for close to twenty years. Since 2017, following the devastating hurricane season that impacted the Caribbean, he has worked for the World Bank in Latin America and the Caribbean region. Prior to that, he led and managed a portfolio of over one billion dollars, focusing on large disaster reconstruction and disaster mitigation projects in South Asia for the World Bank. Before joining the World Bank, Saurabh was based in Aceh, Indonesia with the British Red Cross working on tsunami reconstruction projects following the 2004 Asian tsunami. He has worked with the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center in Bangkok, Thailand, and at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, which is part of the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York. Before joining the development sector, Saurabh worked as an engineer with an environmental consulting firm designing solid waste management and landfill-gas-to-energy projects in California. Saurabh has a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Pune, India, a Master’s in Environmental Engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology and a Master’s in Public Policy and Administration from Columbia University.
