Authors

Blair Trewin is the science lead for the 2011-2020 WMO State of the Climate Report. He is a member of the WMO Expert Team on Climate Monitoring and Assessment and the GCOS Atmospheric Observation Panel for Climate, and has led or contributed to numerous WMO State of the Climate reports since 2010. He is a Senior Research Scientist at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and was a Lead Author of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.

Mr Anshuman is enegaged with the Water Resources Division of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) as its Director. With 25 years of experience working in the water sector, Mr Anshuman’s expertise spans across areas such as integrated water resource management, water use efficiency, and water quality & quantity assessment. At TERI, he is involved in integrated water resources management (IWRM); water use efficiency; urban water supply & demand management studies; water audits; water conservation; watershed management; climate change and water security; provision of drinking water; resource evaluation and pollution load assessment; adequacy & efficiency studies of sewage & effluent treatment plants; regulatory legislations; and environmental impact assessment (EIA) studies.

Liz Ritchie-Tyo is a Professor, School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Faculty of Science, Monash University. Her research interests are tropical cyclones, tropical meteorology, extreme weather and climate impacts on societies. She is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, an editor of Weather and Forecasting and former editor of the Monthly Weather Review. She is a member of the World Meteorological Organisation’s (WMO) Working Group on Tropical Cyclones and the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society’s expert group on weather and weather prediction.

Raksha is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Project Manager based at the Malaysia Node at MCCCRH. Raksha brings expertise from the social science and global health disciplines to climate change. Raksha is from the UK and moved to Malaysia in August 2020. Before joining Monash Climate Change Communication Research Node (MCCCRN) in October 2022, Raksha worked as a consultant for the United Nations University – International Institute for Global Health. In the UK, for 12 years, Raksha worked at the National Institute for Health and Care Research, Research Design Service (NIHR, RDS) East Midlands, as their Senior Research Adviser and Regional Lead for Public Involvement. Raksha led a programme of work to demystify health research with the public.

Azliyana is the first Postdoctoral Research Fellow in climate change communication for the Hub’s Malaysia node. With her expertise in climate-related atmospheric hazards and emission management, she has been instrumental in developing sustainable management policies. Azliyana’s background is in environmental science and management and she holds a Masters of Technology Management. In 2018, Azliyana earned her PhD in Environment and Development from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, where she conducted research on the relationship between the composition of major air pollutants and road traffic volume in an industrial environment using an atmospheric pollution dispersion model.