Karen Sudmeier

Karen Sudmeier has been working in the field of ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction for over a decade and has written some of the first publications on this topic. She is currently an education and training consultant with U.N. Environment, with whom she develops education materials and workshops, including an online course, Disasters and Ecosystems: Resilience in a Changing Climate. Sudmeier is an associate researcher at the University of Lausanne, Institute for Earth Science, where she manages a project on landslide risk and bio-engineering in Western Nepal. She holds a PhD in Environmental Science from the University of Lausanne and master's degrees in international development and forest ecology.