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Curriculum Vitae

Daniel Kull joined the Risk and Vulnerability Program as a Research Scholar in June 2007. He investigates the impacts of natural disasters from household to national scales, focusing on effective and efficient risk reduction strategies in developing countries and poor communities. He further evaluates disaster risk financing as an integral component of climate change adaptation.  A special interest is innovative disaster insurance for poor households as well as for public administration.

 Mr. Kull worked for five years as a hydraulic engineer with the Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC, USA) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH), performing flood management studies. In 2000 he joined the Swiss Reinsurance Company as a technical specialist, developing and applying natural hazard risk assessment and pricing methods/tools to support underwriting. Starting in 2004, Mr. Kull provided technical support for disaster risk reduction projects with the ProVention Consortium, United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR) in Africa, and the Government of Switzerland in Tajikistan.

He has a MSc in water resource engineering from the University of California at Davis (1996), and is an active member of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation's Humanitarian Aid Unit (SDC-SHA).

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