Maureen Fordham

Maureen Fordham is director of the research consultancy Gender Etc., and is emerita professorial research associate at University College London, where she is a co-director of the Centre for Gender and Disaster at the Department for Risk and Disaster Reduction. She has been researching disasters since 1988 and is an expert on community-based disaster risk reduction and vulnerability analysis, focusing particularly on the inclusion of a range of marginalized social groups in disaster risk reduction. She was a founding member of the Gender and Disaster Network in 1997 and is the coordinator of its website and activities. She is a governmental advisor at all scales from local through national to the global United Nations level. She has edited and is on the editorial boards of international disaster-related journals. She is also affiliated with Northumbria University in the United Kingdom and Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand.