Abner Lawanger has been a disaster risk reduction, environmental, and natural resources officer for five years in Tublay, an indigenous municipality in Northern Philippines. He is an experienced officer in disaster management, climate change, environment and local governance, environmental planning and conservation, impact assessment, climate adaptation, etc. He is currently working on community based climate disaster mitigation and environmental programs among indigenous societies. He is a team leader for various environmental, climate change and disaster management programs including the AEION foundation funded watershed management project, "Saving Tublay Watershed for Water" funded by the European Union, and "Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Local Development" by the United Nations World Food Programme (UN-WFP). Abner actively participated in various fellowships to further his degree in Environmental Science, including the 2016 Environmental Sustainability Professional Fellowship Program (USA), "Urban Resiliency" (Malaysia in 2016), and SDGs by the Asian Development Bank (Manila, 2017).