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Dr. Indrajit Pal

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Associate Professor and Chair of Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management
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Department of Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (CIE)
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Dr. Indrajit Pal presently working as Associate Professor and Chair at Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation, and Management program at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. Prior to joining at AIT, Dr. Pal served as a faculty member at Centre for Disaster Management at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, India (Premier National Institute for training Indian Administrative Services Officers). Dr. Pal having 21 years of extensive work on disaster risk governance and policy, vulnerability and risk assessment, capacity development of decision-makers, coastal and delta resilience, critical infrastructure functional risk, systemic and cascading risk. Dr. Pal has written 15 books and more than 100 articles in international and national peer-reviewed journals.

  1. M. A. in Sociology – H.N.B. Garhwal University, India (2011)
  2. Ph. D – on “Seismotectonic and Earthquake Hazard Assessment in parts of East and North-East India”, Vidyasagar University and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, INDIA. (2009)
  3. Diploma in Management – Indira Gandhi National Open University, India.
  4. M.Sc – Applied Geology, Jadavpur University, INDIA. (2001)
  5. B.Sc – Geology, (distinction in Mathematics and Physics), Jadavpur University, INDIA. (1998)
  1. Disaster Risk Governance and Policy 
  2. Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Resilience research
  3. GIS / RS in disaster risk management
  4. Climate Change Adaptation
  5. Community Based Disaster Risk Management
  6. Critical Infrastructure Risk
  7. Disaster Risk Science and Education
  8. Systemic and cascading Risk 
  9. Public Health Risk assessment
  1. IN84.01 Managing Disasters
  2. IN84.04 Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Management – Theory and Practice
  3. IN84.9007 Asia Pacific Initiative on Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (API: DMHA)
  4. IN84.9010 Multi-hazards Risk Assessment: Methods, Tools, and Techniques
  5. IN84.9011 Disaster Management Risk and Governance
  6. IN84.9013 Coastal Processes, Risk and Resilience
  1. Nipun, M.W.H., Ashik-Ur-Rahman, M., Rikta, S.Y., Parven, A., Pal, I., “Rooftop rainwater harvesting for sustainable water usage in residential buildings for climate resilient city building: case study of Rajshahi, Bangladesh”, (2024), International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, 15 (1), pp. 80-100 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-08-2021-0089
  2. Pal, I., Kumar, A., Mukhopadhyay, A., “Risks to Coastal Critical Infrastructure from Climate Change, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 48, pp. 681-712 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-112320-101903
  3. Pal, I., Ghosh, S., Dash, I., Mukhopadhyay, A., “Review of Tsunami early warning system and coastal resilience with a focus on Indian Ocean”, International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, 14 (5), pp 593-610 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-12-2020-0124
  4. Wongboontham, T., Nitivattananon, V., Pal, I., Nguyen, T.P.L., “Enhancing Urban Flood Resilience: The Role and Influence of Socio-Economics in the Chao Phraya River Basin, Thailand”, International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning, 18 (10), pp. 3061-3076 (2023). https://doi.org/10.18280/ijsdp.181009
  5. Pal, I., Baskota, A., Dhungana, G., Udmale, P., Gadhawe, M. A., Doydee, P., Nguyen, T. T. N., Sophat, S., & Banerjee, S. “Index-based tools for livelihood security and resilience assessment (LiSeRA) in lower Mekong Basin”. MethodsX, 11, 102301. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.MEX.2023.102301
  6. Pal, I., Dhungana, G., Baskota, A., Udmale, P., Gadhawe, M.A., Doydee, P., Nguyen, T.T.N., Sophat, S., “Multi-Hazard Livelihood Security and Resilience of Lower Mekong Basin Communities”, Sustainability (Switzerland), MDPI, 15 (11) (2023), art. no. 8469, https://doi.org/10.3390/su15118469
  7. Nghia, B.P.Q., Pal, I., Chollacoop, N., Mukhopadhyay, A. “Applying Google Earth engine for flood mapping and monitoring in the downstream provinces of Mekong river”, Progress in Disaster Science, 14 (2022), art. no. 100235 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2022.100235
  8. Mahmoud, E. M., Pal, I., & Ahmad, M. M. “Assessing public health risk factors for internally displaced households in North Darfur, Sudan”. Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, 30(2), 225–239 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-04-2019-0105/FULL/PDF
  9. Fadlallah, M.A., Pal, I., Hoe, V.C. “Determinants of perceived risk among artisanal gold miners: A case study of Berber locality, Sudan” Extractive Industries and Society, 7 (2), pp. 748-757 (2020).  https://doiorg?10.1016/j.exis.2020.03.006
  10. Aslam, R.A., Shrestha, S., Pal, I., Ninsawat, S., Shanmugam, M.S., Anwar, S. “Projections of climatic extremes in a data poor transboundary river basin of India and Pakistan”, International Journal of Climatology, 40 (11), pp. 4992-5010 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6501
  11. Thanvisitthpon, N., Shrestha, S., Pal, I., Ninsawat, S., Chaowiwat, W. “Assessment of flood adaptive capacity of urban areas in Thailand”, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 81, art. no. 106363 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2019.106363
  12. Parven, A., Pal, I., Witayangkurn, A., Pramanik, M., Nagai, M., Miyazaki, H., Wuthisakkaroon, C., “Impacts of disaster and land-use change on food security and adaptation: Evidence from the delta community in Bangladesh”, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 78 (2022), art. no. 103119, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103119
  13. Lwin, K.K., Pal, I., Shrestha, S., Warnitchai, P. “Assessing social resilience of flood-vulnerable communities in Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar”, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 51 (2020), art. no. 101745. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101745
  14. Udmale, P., Ichikawa, Y., Ning, S., Shrestha, S., Pal, I. “A statistical approach towards defining national-scale meteorological droughts in India using crop data” Environmental Research Letters, 15 (9) (2020), art. no. 094090. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abacfa
  15. Pal, I., Ghosh, T., Ghosh, C. “Institutional framework and administrative systems for effective disaster risk governance – Perspectives of 2013 Cyclone Phailin in India” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 21, pp. 350-359 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.01.002
  1. Project Title: “Strengthening climate resilience of agricultural livelihoods in Savannakhet Province, Lao PDR through participatory Ecosystem-based Adaptation”, Mekong Thought Leadership and Think Tanks Network (MTT) Program
    • Year: 2024 – 2025
    • Location: Lao PDR
    • Client: SEI / SUMERNET  
    • Position Held: Project Lead
  2. Project Title: “Climate Resilient Infrastructure for Social Transformation and Adaptation (CRISTA) 2.0”- Climate Innovation Challenge 
    • Year: 2024 – 2025
    • Location: Nepal 
    • Client: ADPC / World Bank  
    • Position Held: Project Lead
  3. Project Title: “Climate Resilient Infrastructure for Social Transformation and Adaptation (CRISTA)”- Climate Innovation Challenge 
    • Year: 2021 – 2022
    • Location: Bangladesh, Nepal 
    • Client: ADPC / World Bank  
    • Position Held: Project Lead
  4. Project Title: “Capacity building for measuring multi-hazard livelihood security and resilience in the Lower Mekong Basin”
    • Year: 2021 – 2022
    • Location: Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam 
    • Client: APN, Japan 
    • Position Held: Project Lead
  5. Project Title: “Multi-hazard Risk Indexing of Coastal Critical Infrastructure: A Case Study of Thailand”
    • Year: 2021 – 2022
    • Location: Thailand
    • Client: CDRI
    • Position Held: Project Lead
  6. Project Title: “River Morphological Study, Flood Hazard Mapping and Establishment of Decision Support System for Sindh Province”
    • Year: 2019 – 2021
    • Location: Pakistan
    • Client: World Bank
    • Position Held: Senior Risk Advisor
  7. Project Title: “Integrated Assessment of SDGs Using Big Earth Observation Data for Bangkok Metropolitan Region (BMR)” 
    • Year: 2020 – 2023
    • Location: Bangkok, Thailand
    • Client: National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) 
    • Position Held: Co-Principal Investigator
  8. Project Title: “Living Deltas Hub”
    • Year: 2019 – 2024
    • Location: Bangladesh, India, Vietnam  
    • Client: UK Research and Innovation, Global Challenges Research Fund
    • Position Held: Co-Investigator
  9. Project Title: “Enhancing Ecosystem Based Adaption to Disaster Risk Reduction in the Himalayan river basin: Integrating of traditional and local knowledge in disaster management plan in Nepal, India and Bangladesh”
    • Year: 2021 – 2023
    • Location: Nepal, India, Bangladesh 
    • Client: APN, Japan 
    • Position Held: Partner
  10. Project Title: “Multi-hazard Resilience of Higher Educational Institutions in Asia Pacific”
    • Year: 2022 – 2023
    • Location: Nepal, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Thailand
    • Client: ICIMOD, Nepal
    • Position Held: Project Lead
  11. Project Title: “Preventing Plastic Pollution in Indonesia (PISCES)”
    • Year: 2021 – 2024
    • Location: Indonesia
    • Client: UK Research and Innovation, Global Challenges Research Fund
    • Position Held: Co-Investigator
  12. Project Title: “Risk perception and implication on risk governance for dual disasters Cyclone Amphan and COVID-19 in Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA)”
    • Year: 2020 – 2021
    • Location: India
    • Client: Global Challenges Research Fund, UKRI
    • Position Held: Principal Investigator
  13. Project Title: “Disaster Education for integrating SFDRR and SDG in Asia” 
    • Year: 2020 – 2021
    • Location: Japan, Thailand, Indonesia
    • Client: ProSPER.Net, Japan (United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan)
    • Position Held: Principal Investigator
  14. Project Title: “Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development Education Network in Asia” 
    • Year: 2018 – 2019
    • Location: Asia-Pacific Region
    • Client: ProSPER.Net, Japan (UN University)
    • Position Held: Principal Investigator 
  15. Project Title: Evidenced Based analysis of Flood Risk Management and Social Vulnerability – A System Approach in Sakon Nakhon Province, Thailand
    • Year: 2018 – 2019
    • Location: Thailand
    • Position Held: Principal Investigator
  16. Project Title: Critical Factors for Post-Disaster Educational Continuity in Urban Flood Impacts in South and Southeast Asia
    • Year: 2017 – 2018
    • Location: Thailand, Bangladesh, Vietnam
    • Position Held: Country Lead
  17. Project Title: ‘Disaster Resilience Education Capacity Building in South-East Asia’
    • Year: 2016 -2018
    • Client: Australia-ASEAN Council (AAC)
    • Location: Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam. 
    •  Position Held: Country Lead 
  1. Life Member: European Geosciences Union
  2. Advisor DRR and Governance, Regional Integrated Multi-hazard Early Warning System (RIMES)
  3. Visiting Professor (2023-2024), Keio University, Japan 
  4. Fellow, Coalition of Disaster Resilience Infrastructure (CDRI) – 2021
  5. Board of Director’s Member (Former), Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GARDI), Kyoto University, JAPAN.
  6. Life Member of “Indian Society of Remote Sensing”
  7. Honorary Adjunct Professor, Civil Engineering Department, ITM (SLS), Baroda University, India. 
  8. Visiting Professor (2018 – 2020), Disaster Risk Management at Philippines School of Business Administration (PSBA), Manila, Philippines.
  9. Visiting Faculty (2015), under DRC International Exchange Program, Kyoto University, Japan.
  10. IRDR Young Scientist, 2017 (Integrated Research on Disaster Risk, Beijing, China).
  11. Core group member of the “National Disaster Response Management Guideline” by National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Government of India.
  12. Nodal and Coordinating Officer for the project “Capacity Building on Disaster Management for Indian Administrative Services Officers (IAS) /Central services” – 2012 -2017, by National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Govt. of India. 
  13. Imparted Disaster Management modules for more than 500 Bangladesh Civil Services Officers under Mid-Career Training Program in India. 
  14. Nodal officer and Program Coordinator for “National Program for Training of Scientists and Technologists working in the Government Sector” from 2007- 2014, by Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. 
  15. National Level trainer for Incident Command System (ICS) to function as resource person and evaluator for pilot project in various provinces in India. 
  16. UNISDR / Global Education and Training Institute, Republic of Korea, Resource Person for Developing Capacities on Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the Asia-Pacific Region”, under “Making City Resilient Global Campaign” since 2015.
  1. Disaster Risk Governance
  2. Resilience, Infrastructure
  3. Climate Adaptation
  4. Innovation
  5. Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Development
  6. Community Based Disaster Risk Management
  7. Disaster Risk Science and Education
  8. Public Health.