Muralee Thummarukudy information

Muralee Thummarukudy
Director at G20 Global Land Initiative Coordination Office of United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
Incumbent
Assumed office February 2022
Personal details
Born	(1964-08-10) 10 August 1964 (age 59) Vengola, Kochi, Kerala
Citizenship	Indian
Parents	Raman Nair (father) Kamalakshi Amma (mother)
Residence	Geneva
Education	PhD in Engineering
Alma mater	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Mar Athanasius College of Engineering
Occupation	Disaster Management Expert
Profession	Engineer
Committees	Member, Emergency Preparedness & Response, IAEA Safety Standards Committee and Member, Advisory Committee, Center for Natural Resources and Development of Technical University of Cologne
Website	Official Website, Website, Blog

Muralee Thummarukudy (born 10 August 1964) is the Director of the G20 Global Land Initiative Coordination Office of UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). Prior to UNCCD Muralee was the Chief of Disaster Risk Reduction in the UN Environment Programme. An internationally renowned expert in disaster response, Muralee has been involved in post-disaster response and follow-up of almost all major disasters of the twenty-first century, including the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, Cyclone Nargis (Myanmar, 2008), Sichuan Earthquake (China, 2008), Haiti Earthquake (2010),^[1] Tohoku tsunami (2011) and floods in Thailand (2011). He has completed assignments in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza Strip, Liberia, Sudan and Rwanda dealing with the environmental impacts of conflicts. Also deployed to China, Japan, Myanmar, Ukraine, Haiti, and Thailand to deal with Disasters. He is a native of Vengola in Ernakulam district of the Kerala State in India.^[2]