2nd GEOSS Science and Technology Stakeholder Workshop GEOSS: Supporting Science for the Millennium Development Goals and Beyond Bonn, Germany, August 28—31, 2012

Fabrice Renaud

Fabrice is originally from France and holds a PhD in agronomy (soil physics) from the University of Arkansas, USA, a MSc in Agricultural Engineering (soil conservation) from Cranfield Institute of Technology, UK, and a DESTOM in Tropical Agroeconomics from the Institut Supérieur des Techniques d'Outre Mer, France. He has broad expertise in environmental sciences. He has worked on rural development projects in Namibia and in Thailand. More recently, Fabrice was a lecturer at Cranfield University in the UK and was involved in pesticide fate research including pesticide fate modeling.

Fabrice has been with UNU-EHS since September 2004 and heads the Environmental Vulnerability and Ecosystem Services Section. He served as Director ad interim of the Institute from August 2009 to May 2011. At UNU-EHS, he is responsible for carrying out research on and developing concepts and projects dealing with the environmental dimension of vulnerability, with the resilience of social-ecological systems to external shocks, with water pollution and human and ecosystem exposure to such pollution, and land degradation processes particularly in the context of climate change. He supervises MSc and PhD scholars and is involved in capacity development activities both in academia and in training seminars and workshops. Fabrice serves as UNU focal point to various international processes such as the IPCC or UN-Water and represents the Institute in the UN/ISDR Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction. He is a member of the UN/ISDR Scientific and Technical Committee.

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