Animesh Prakash is a humanitarian professional with nearly fifteen years of service with communities, Government, NGOs and UN. He has experience across the spectrum of disaster management, including Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction and Humanitarian Response. Skilled in partnership management, high impact programme delivery, innovation and influencing, his thematic focus of work includes community resilience and risk reduction, risk informed water governance, WASH and early warning in transboundary river basins of South Asia.
He has previously held CCA, DRR and Humanitarian positions with UN World Food Programme, Oxfam and UNDP. He is an India Disaster Resilience Leadership (IDRL) fellow with TISS. He is recipient of awards for innovation in early warning and DRR from DCHI & Spindle in Netherlands, UNSG & MIT Climate CoLab and UN-OCHA. He has a professional degree in Disaster Management and Human Rights Law.
