Name: Pierluigi Sinibaldi
Organization: OXFAM America
Functional Title: Disaster Risk Reduction Specialist
Country: USA
Course participated in: 13th International Course on GIS for Disaster Risk Management
Pierluigi Sinibaldi is a Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction Specialist at OXFAM America. He took a course on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with UNITAR’s Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT).
Pierluigi has worked in the humanitarian sector since 2002 in a variety of areas, including food security, emergency response, and disaster risk reduction. His current work involves disaster preparedness, long-term recovery and resilience at Oxfam. He works with governments and local partners in Central America and the Asia-Pacific region, building capacity on needs assessment, market-based interventions, and contingency planning, to ensure that governments and civil society are ready to respond to disasters.
He took the course to enhance his technical understanding of GIS and because he felt that it had potential applications in his work at Oxfam, such as how it could be used along the disaster risk management cycle, including preparedness, impact assessment, relief, and recovery.