Associate - Risk and Resilience

Daniela is a Senior Risk and Resilience engineer in the Risk + Resilience Team in Arup. She has more than a decade of experience as a disaster risk specialist conducting multihazard qualitative and quantitative assessments (for hydrometeorological and geophysical hazards and incorporating climate change effects) and developing disaster and climate change risk mitigation and resilience strategies. At Arup she has led and participated in projects in the U.S., Colombia and Asia for both private and public sector clients, where she is leading a project incorporating climate change considerations in Perú's multiannual planning program for health infrastructue, and was the technical lead in supporting the update of Bhutan's Disaster Risk and Climate Change Act. Before joining Arup, Daniela worked in the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) where she worked incorporating disaster and climate change risk considerations in country strategies and projects of the infrastructure, urban and social sectors across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). She worked supporting policy-based loans to mainstream climate change action in Barbados through a programmatic approach to update policies and programs. She also supported the development and update of the IDB’s Climate Change Action Plan and led the structuring of Probabilistic Climate Risk and Adaptation studies for the adaptation aspect of Colombia’s and Perú's 2050 Long Term Strategy. Prior to that, Daniela worked for engineering firms in Colombia as an expert probabilistic risk modeler for projects in LAC. Daniela holds a MSc in Civil Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, USA and is a civil engineer from Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.