Senior Research Fellow
Albert is presently the cluster lead for Climate Change, Disasters, and Development at the Stockholm Environment Institute's Asia Centre. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the institute. Albert has over 15 years of experience working in Southeast Asian countries on climate change adaptation, natural resource management, conservation, development, and the maintenance of sustainable lifestyles. His research interests include resilience, risk, vulnerabilities, traditional ecological knowledge, mobility and spatial links, disaster displacement, and sustainable livelihoods. He is a member of the UK GCRF Living Deltas Hub. His recent co-edited work includes the "Climate Change, Disasters, and Internal Displacement in Asia and the Pacific," the "Routledge Handbook of Global Development", and the "Report for the Mid-Term Review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction". He is a member of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage Expert Group on Slow Onset Events and an advisor to Samdhana Institute's fair, green and global alliance programme.
Albert contributes to weADAPT, the Sustainable Mekong Research Network, the Mekong Think Tank and Thought Leadership Programme, and the ADB GMS Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability Programme. He is leading a project on EBA-enhanced climate field schools for climate resilience funded by the Global EBA Fund.
He was formerly in charge of the SEI's global initiative on Transforming Development and Disaster Risk, and he also contributed to the Climate Services Initiative through the School of Climate and Living Traditions. He was also in charge of the Partnership in Governance Transition: the Bali Cultural Landscape and the Regional Climate Change Adaptation Knowledge Platform (AKP). Albert was also the Mekong Partnership for the Environment's Action Research Advisor.
Durham University awarded him a doctorate in geography.
