Dr. Dewi is a disaster risk and climate resilience specialist with 7-year of experience across the UN system. She works at the intersection of science, policy and operations to advance impact-based forecast and warning services and risk analytics for climate-related hazards.

Dr. Dewi worked on the EarlyWarning4IGAD project in the IGAD Region of the Greater Horn of Africa, with Kenya and Ethiopia as pilots. She led the day-to-day activities of the and coordinating with consortium partners. In this project, she contributed to the co-development of the impact-based early warning approach for drought and for flood with partners, and engaged stakeholders throughout the project. Dr. Dewi has an interest in improving risk understanding of practitioners to include what hazards might do to people and key sectors, enabling anticipatory actions that can reduce disaster losses.

Prior to joining UNU-EHS, Dr. Dewi served as the Disaster Risk Reduction Expert at the UN ESCAP and UNITAR in Asia and the Pacific Region. She led data and analytical teams in developing decision-support tool on multiple climate risk scenarios and climate adaptation priorities, and supported the operationalization of IBFWS in the Asia and Pacific region. She was one of the main authors of UN ESCAP’s flagship publication named the Asia-Pacific Disaster Reports, training manuals and policy briefs. She contributed substantially to the WMO State of Climate Reports.

She delivered numerous capacity-building activities to multi-stakeholders on risk assessment and the use of decision support tools, methodological approach on impact-based forecasting and risk analytics, engaging National Disaster Management Authorities, National Meteorological and Hydrological Services, sectoral ministries, academics, UN agencies and other organizations at regional and national settings.
Her interests are in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, decision support system tools, and impact-based forecasting and warning services.