Rashmin Gunasekera is a Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist working at the World Bank (WB) Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) in Washington DC. Rashmin leads two Global thematic areas of Disaster Risk Analytics (GPDRA) and Disaster Risk Financing & Resilience (DRF&R) at GFDRR. Rashmin has over 20 years of work experience in disaster risk quantification with the public sector, re/insurance industry and academia. He has also presented and published innovative research and led Operations in Disaster Risk Management including revolutionary analytics that fast-tracked post disaster emergency operations. Prior to the WB, Rashmin was a Divisional Director of a global reinsurance intermediary and a coordinator of the Willis Research Network, the world’s largest collaboration between public science and the financial sector. A Sri Lankan and British national, his PhD is in earthquake seismology and he holds a Visiting Professorship at University of Cambridge and Honorary Lectureship at UCL.