Director, Geospatial InformationPeeranan is ADPC’s Director of the Geospatial Information department, focusing on improving uses of publicly available satellite data and geospatial information to address disaster, climate change, and environmental issues in Asia and the Pacific. Peeranan currently is leading the SERVIR-Southeast Asia project, an initiative of USAID and NASA. The project led to achievements in improved flood and drought early warning, forest alerts, landscape monitoring, air quality forecasting and fire management as well as enhanced capacity of users and policy makers to use these tools.At ADPC, Peeranan leads a team of more than 15 international experts with expertise in GIS/remote sensing, hydrology, agriculture, land cover mapping, meteorology, and climate risk as well as capacity building, communications, knowledge management and M&E. He spearheaded an implementation of various projects that brought science and innovation to address disaster and climate issues on the ground, while ensuring user engagement, quality control, capacity transfer, and actual use cases from the projects.Peeranan has been with ADPC since 2010. Before that he worked in a catastrophe risk modeling firm in the United States. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.