Ebru Gencer

Columbia University, Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, PhD, Assoc. Adj. Prof.

Ebru Gencer is a researcher, scholar, and practitioner on urban risk, climate resilience, and sustainable development. She is the Founding Director of the Center for Urban Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience (CUDRR+R), a research center with a focus on enhancing urban resilience and reducing disaster risks in cities. She is also a Senior Urban Resilience Adviser at the World Bank. Previously, the Co-Chair of the Urban Planning Advisory Group to the Special Representative of UN Secretary General for Disaster Risk Reduction, she has published extensively on the nexus between urban risk, climate change, and sustainable development. CUDRR+R is a non-profit scientific organization dedicated to produce knowledge and to undertake practices and partnerships that will advance urban risk reduction and resilience building to natural hazards and the impacts of climate change.