Dr. Glenn Fernandez is an associate professor at the Institute for Disaster Risk Management and Reconstruction, a joint institute of Sichuan University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has conducted disaster risk reduction research as principal investigator and as collaborator in China, Indonesia, Japan, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. He is an alumni from the 2019 AAAS-TWAS Train the Trainers Course on Science Diplomacy.