Feb 2022 – Nov 2022 · 9 mos · Auckland, New Zealand

• Assist with Asia Pacific disaster response fund of ADB.

Apr 2019 – Aug 2019 · 4 mos · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

• Develop national climate change risk assessment framework (the framework) that enables a broad range of risks to be systematically compared. The aim of the Expert Panel is to develop the framework, which will then be used to complete the first Risk Assessment. The Risk Assessment will inform New Zealand’s National Adaptation Plan. The framework should also be of use to local government, iwi/hapū and other organisations.

Jun 2018 – Nov 2022 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

• Developing technical excellence is paramount to delivering value to our clients and achieving our aspiration of being ‘Best at what we do’ in disaster risk reduction and climate resilience.
• Development of flood warning and response system for Greater Wellington Regional Council, New Zealand.
• Development of climate change risk assessment framework for Ministry for the Environment, New Zealand.
• Flood risk management for Honiara, Solomon Islands. Flood modeling, flood warning system, and flood response plan development.
• Development of multi-hazards impact-based early warning system for Commonwealth of Dominica.
• Development of community-based flood resilience under the ‘Flood Resilience Alliance Project’ of New Zealand Red Cross.
• Cost-benefits of the early warning system and system design for multi-hazard earning system in the Pacific and Asia (e.g. Samoa, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Nepal, Dominica, Seychelles, etc.).
• Disaster impact modelling for the world largest refuge camp (i.e. Rahinga community). Conducted monte Carlo modeling of tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal.
• Natural hazard risk assessment and their potential impact on critical infrastructure (e.g., Ports Collective, roads, buildings) in New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific.
• Multi-hazard coastal risk assessment for Hawke’s Bay coastal hazard strategy 2120 in New Zealand.
• System developer for multi-hazard impact-based early warning system for Tonga and Samoa under World Bank.
• Development of flood and tsunami early warning system for Fiji. Conducted probabilistic tsunami hazard assessment for Fiji and other Pacific Islands.
• Application of big data, earth observation data for pre-impact, planning and rapid damage mapping for water-induced hazards (i.e., Kaikoura earthquake, flood in the Solomon Islands, cyclone in Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and Bangladesh) and data standardization policy for COVID-19 pandemic.

Jun 2015 – Oct 2018 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

• Natural hazards damage and risk assessment (i.e. local Councils, sea Ports, transportation, water infrastructures) for AON insurance, local and regional Councils in New Zealand.
• Reviewed disaster risk reduction coherence in national adaptation plan (NAP) and Nationally determined contributions (NDC) in Fiji, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines under UNDRR
• Design and development of transport sector climate risk, early warning and emergency response system for Ministry of Rural Development in Cambodia.
• Application of big data, earth observation data for pre-impact and rapid damage mapping for natural disaster (i.e. cyclone Winston, Kaikoura earthquake).
• Project evaluations on climate risk and disaster risk reduction for AFD, UNDP in the Pacific.
• Development of tsunami early warning system for Fiji.
• Climate change and disaster risk reduction for water sector project development in Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia.
• Development of fragility functions for disaster loss estimation for natural hazards for local and regional Councils.
• Conducted climate/drought risk assessment and development strategies for utilization of groundwater and surface water in in Bangladesh under Swiss Red Cross.
• Work together with National Disaster Management Authority and Met Services and assist in Program design for climate vulnerability assessment and disaster risk reduction in in New Zealand and Pacific countries (Samoa and Tonga).
• Post disaster recovery and reconstruction framework for Philippines.
• Development of landslide early warning system using integrated weather, landscape, geotech engineering and social-dynamic models

Mar 2018 – Jun 2018 · 3 mos · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

• Seconded from T+T to DPMC- MCDEM to develop national disaster loss database. MCDEM is the New Zealand focal point for the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. MCDEM is coordinating the development of a central data repository or National Loss Database for New Zealand. This database enable risk analysis tracking and support decision-making by central government, local government (CDEM Groups) and others participating stakeholders. We set up Desinventar Sendai server software (an open-source and is free of charge) to report back to UN.

Oct 2017 – Dec 2017 · 2 mos · Tonga

• Tonga’s capital, Nuku’alofa, is a growing city on the island of Tongatapu and is home to some 24,500 people. Its extreme vulnerability to the effects of climate change and a range of natural hazards demands greatly improved resilience to disaster and climate risk. ADB’s Strategy for 2020 identifies disaster and emergency assistance as one of its key areas of operation in the Pacific.
• I have conducted an integrated disaster and climate risk reduction assessment to identify major gaps in risk awareness and community-based disaster risk management practices, based on extensive literature research, secondary information and consultation with stakeholders.

Sep 2016 – Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

• Supervised Master and PhD students on disaster risk reduction and climate change research projects. Project covers - sand storm early warning system in Saudi Arab, infrastructures risk assessment for Fiji, disaster risk reduction practice for Volcano hazard in Indonesia, digital games in disaster preparedness education, disaster risk assessment for tourism sector in Philippines, etc.

Feb 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Provide technical support and strategic advice to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in the context of focusing on 'hard' and 'soft' adaptation interventions and development of an integrated watershed management plan under "Economy Wide Integration of Climate Change Adaptation and DRM/DRR to reduce climate vulnerability of communities in Samoa.
• Provide technical advice on appropriate steps involving planning, design and feasibility assessment (including EIAs) and cost-benefit analysis as key to the successful construction of adaptation measures in the Vaisigano River and Greater Apia area, including management infrastructure.

Oct 2014 – Jan 2015 · 3 mos

• Final evaluator for the water resources component of the large regional program of Pacific Adaptation and Climate Change programme. The program was developed to lay the groundwork for a more coordinated and integrated approach to ensure that vulnerabilities are reduced and that development activities achieve their social, economic and ecological goals. The programme addresses Pacific island priority actions for climate change adaptation by: –(1) demonstrating practical ‘on the ground’ measures; (2) promoting climate-sensitive national policy; (3) strengthening community or municipality coping capacity; and (4) building resilience at the level of national, federal and state economies. Working in 14 Pacific island countries and territories and across three critical climate-sensitive sectors, the different facets of the programme combine to provide a comprehensive, multi-layered framework for adaptation in the region.

Feb 2015 – Feb 2015 · 0 mo · Bangladesh

• Mr. Fakhruddin primarily responsible for mainstreaming DRR initiatives in the IWRM framework. Given the disaster prone nature of the proposed intervention area, the success of IWRM initiatives will hinge on recognising the direct impact of non-water policies, especially those related to disaster risks, on water use and management; and thus requires a thorough examina-tion of disaster risks confronted by the region and identification of measures to mitigate them. This will be followed by mainstreaming DRR initiatives in the policy and IWRM framework of UPs and Pauroshavas.

Dec 2014 – Apr 2015 · 4 mos · Bhutan

• (i) updating the hydro-meteorological data projections based on latest climate change scenarios, and undertaking statistical downscaling to project local conditions (precipitation, temperature, and evaporation time series and statistics including extreme value analysis) for the short-, medium-, and long-term horizons using Arc SWAT model.
• (ii) reviewing all available background information on climate change and climate change modeling for water resources, agriculture, and hydropower in Bhutan;
• (iii) reviewing results of global (General Circulation Model) and regional climate modeling conducted under the "Fifth Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project" (CMIP5) of the World Climate Research Program supporting the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report; and providing a synthesis of this work and its implications for Bhutan with emphasis on water resources and irrigated agriculture;
• (iv) reviewing existing, ongoing, and planned projects and activities involving the downscaling of outputs of the CMIP5 global projections (both dynamically via regional climate models and statistically), including the South Asia Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment, and provide a synthesis of this work and its implications for Bhutan with emphasis on water resources;

May 2014 – Oct 2014 · 5 mos · Cambodia

• Conducted vulnerability assessment for road infrastructure and designed community based early warning and emergency communication system for the road safety and communities in the pilot areas. The project supported by Asian Development Bank (ADB) for development major infrastructures for community resilience to future climate change. Fakhruddin designed an end to end early warning system, EOC and training to the the Government of Cambodia and Red Cross volunteers.

Sep 2013 – Jun 2014 · 9 mos · Samoa

• Designed UNDP GEF project on "Economy-wide integration of climate change adaptation and DRM/DRR to reduce vulnerability in Samoan communities" by assessing the vulnerability of key infrastructure in inland and coastal pilot sites to climate change induced hazards and proposing measures to strengthen their resilience against likely impacts over the coming decades.
• Developed interventions, identify and validate through stakeholder consultations and technical feasibility assessments including that consideration of their costs and benefits. The cost effectiveness of the proposed measure pertaining to infrastructure should also be ascertained.
• Developed adaptation measures for the water infrastructure of Samoa for future climate change.
• Designed flood forecasting and coastal inundation modeling for Samoa

Jul 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

• System designed and guidance for developing coastal inundation forecasting model.
• Develop inundation scheme for the coastal inundation model by integrating cyclone, storm surge, wave and hydrodynamic modules in Bangladesh.
• Develop JMA MRI Model and LISflood plug-in for FEWS platform.
• Training and capacity building of Bangladesh Metrological Department (BMD) on coastal inundation model.
• Develop decision support system to interpret and translate the science based information on ensembles forecasts.
• Work as a PSG member for the CIFDP global program (i.e. Fiji, Dominic Republic, Indonesia, China, etc)
• Shared development of CIF to tropical cyclone and Typhoon Committee in the region.

Jul 2013 – Aug 2013 · 1 mo · United States

• USAID funded 'African and Latin American Resilience to Change (ARCC) Program'- Conducting an assessment for opportunities to improve the efficiency and sustainability of groundwater and climate change in West Africa.

May 2013 – Jun 2013 · 1 mo · Buk-gu, North Gyeongsang, South Korea

• development of a seasonal flood outlook for Asia using global seasonal forecasts (CCSM3) with bias correction and hydrological analysis.

Jan 2012 – Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos · United States

• # Hydrological modeling (HEC-series, MIKE-11, RRL, TOPKAPI, IFAS, and other lumped and Distributed models) for Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal for flood forecasting and other water related hazard analysis
• # Flood risk management and community level applications of long lead flood forecasts. Developed DSS for multi-hazard risk management.
• # Hydrological (Catchment, distributed, WB, discharge prediction) and climate (CLASIC) model processing and development. Analysis of ECMWF forecasts data to generate climate forecasts applications
• # Storm surge modeling and generate inundation based on cyclone forecasts
• # Climate Change adaptation strategy development and climate impact analysis for Asia. Capacity building modules on climate risk management.
• # Environmental/planning related projects for the water sector and developing climate change/sea level rise scenarios based on IPCC recommendations for water and land use planning.
• # Experienced in environmental issues, land and water resource problems, flood risk management, and integrated water resources management (IWRM). Developed analytical framework for planning for IWRM.
• # Acquiring and processing data for hazard detection (i.e. sea level data for tsunami, river flow, and precipitation for flood risk management). Worked with NOAA as a resource person and coordinator for Deep Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART) Tsunameter training, Concept of Operation for development of tsunami warning center’s operation guide, Radio and internet protocols for emergency communication
• # Subject matter Expert on Incident Command System for Disaster Response.
• # Design siren protocols, communication pathway for warning dissemination from national to local level in Indonesia
• # Gender mainstreaming in integrated water resources management.

Nov 2011 – Dec 2011 · 1 mo · Sri Lanka

• Evaluation of Community Based Early Warning System Project
• Evaluation of National Disaster Management Project

Sep 2011 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangladesh

• Enhanced cyclone risk management in Bangladesh USAID funded " Nobo Jiban" program. The largest food security program.
• Developed cyclone and severe weather early warning system and capacity building of local community and volunteers on interpretation and response of early warning system.
• Established volunteers for local level rainfall observation, developed storm surge model for coastal inundations forecasting.

Feb 2011 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos · Uganda, Tanzania, sierra leone, Pakistan, Bangladesh

• Development of standard operation procedures for the BRAC (the largest NGO) in Bangladesh and micro-finance organization.
• Develop and capacity building of BRAC Uganda, Sierra Leon, Pakistan and Tanzania on emergency response management, early warning system. Develop SOP and contingency plan for these countries.

Jan 2011 – May 2012 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Denver Area, USA

• Identify lessons learned for the USAID OFDA funded disaster risk management project in the Asia. Conduct assessment and interview with partners organizations and implementing agencies. The objective of the project is to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and constraints in DRR activities in order to strategize about DRR program development in the face of uncertain hydro-meteorological future; provide recommendations to the DRR community along with statements about the potential impacts of not implementing those recommendations; use lessons identified from implementing disaster risk reduction programs to inform and enhance climate-related decision making processes at various levels of society and share lessons-related knowledge and experience for resilient adaptation activities for climate change at community, national, regional and river basin levels.

May 2010 – Jul 2013 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Thailand

• Mr. Fakhruddin working on the following projects:
• USAID funded " SHOUHARDO-I/II" program of CARE Bangladesh- Developed medium and long range ensembles probabilistic flood forecasting technology for community level applications. May 2008- to May 2013.
• Fakhruddin developed a flood forecasting model for the Wangchhu river basin in Bhutan. The Hydro Met Services Division under the Department of Energy is implementing the project “Support to Enhancing Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change”, funded by Danida, under the Danida Climate and Development Action Programme
• Fakhruddin is developing a decision support system that will be linked with the multi models outputs to assist in preparing preferred interventions for subsequent decision making for differential hazards for Vietnam, China, Bangladesh, and Maldives under Norway Government support program.
• Fakhruddin developed a SOP for disaster risk management for the BRAC Bangladesh under the BRAC USA contract
• Regional Training on End-to-End Early Warning System
• Fakhruddin designed the regional training module for end to end early warning system based on his long experience on early warning system in the region.
• Regional Training on Climate Risk Management
• Regional Training Integrated Water Resources Management

Aug 2009 – Sep 2009 · 1 mo · Iran

• To build the capacity of national emergency institutes as well as media (IRIB) on disaster risk reduction and climate change, roles of media in disaster risk reduction

Jun 2008 – Sep 2008 · 3 mos

• Worked as a Regional Water and Sanitation Specialist for the WATSAN program of Eco-Asia of USAID/RDMA Bangkok. The programs cover eight countries of Asia ( i.e. Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam) to support water supply and sanitation facilities to meet support Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005 and UN Millennium Development Goals.

Mar 2008 – Jun 2008 · 3 mos · Hong Kong SAR

• Work as a resource person to conduct climate change adaptation for South Asian countries

Nov 2006 – Mar 2008 · 1 yr 4 mos · United States

• Work as an Instructor for the Incident Command Training for the SAARC member states and IOTWS program
• Work as coordinator and program design for ICS for emergency response.
• Provide training to Government of Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka on ICS. Conduct training in USA for different Government officials.

Dec 2005 – Sep 2007 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangkok

• Worked with United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (USFS) as a lead trainer and technical specialist to implement Incident Command System (ICS) for the disaster response management in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand
• Worked with National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and USFS as a emergency communication specialist to develop the tsunami alert rapid notification system to enhance early warning dissemination network, development of protocols, procedures for Thailand and Indonesia
• Worked with US Geological Survey (USGS) as resource person and coordinator for conducting seismic and tsunami warning system training, tsunami travel time modeling, seismic modeling
• Conducted on policy and institutional assessment for early warning to support NDMO;s in Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Indonesia
• Worked with NOAA as a resource person and coordinator for Deep Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART) Tsunameter training, Concept of Operation for development of tsunami warning center’s operation guide, Radio and internet protocols for emergency communication
• Worked on community based disaster risk management program in the south of Thailand with AIT and University of Hawaii, USA for training on community based early warning system
• Developed Siren protocols, communication pathway for warning dissemination from national to local level in Indonesia

Nov 2005 – May 2010 · 4 yrs 6 mos

• Fakhruddin worked in ADPC in the following projects:
• Government of Norway supported project on Capacity Building of National Focal Points for Effective Dissemination of Natural Hazard Early Warning System, Bangladesh, China and Vietnam
• USAID supported Climate Forecast Application in Bangladesh together with National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR),
• Government of Pakistan and SDC funded program on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction, Pakistan
• Fakhruddin involved in analyzing rainfall information (0.5 x 0.5 degree) using Indian and Bangladesh observed data (1978-2007) as well as satellite information and estimate climatic parameters using the simulation of suitable GCM models and one downscale scenario for three projections for 2020- 2050, 2050-2080 and 2080-2100 with GCM output for Bangladesh and overlay with hydrological information.
• UNESCAPE supported Concept of Operation for End-to-end Early Warning System, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Myanmar
• Enhance Early Warning Dissemination System for Maldives, Myanmar and Sri Lanka
• Incident Command System for Disaster Management, Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Iran, Maldives, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia
• Policy and Institutional Assessment for Disaster Management, Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka
• UNDP supported Design End-to-End Early Warning System for Seychelles
• ITU supported Emergency Telecommunication System for Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Maldives

Sep 2005 – Mar 2006 · 6 mos · Bangkok

• Developed assessment report for emergency telecommunication system for disaster management in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Maldives. Published under ITU

May 2005 – Jun 2005 · 1 mo

• Preparing vulnerability maps for arsenic contamination in the project area. Provided training on Arc View GIS to office staff of AAN.

Dec 2004 – Mar 2005 · 3 mos · Global

• Developed a case study on Gender Mainstreaming in Water Resources Management. Published under UN, New York, USA

Oct 2003 – Jun 2005 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangladesh

• Provide technical Assistant to Managing Director for preparing project planning, revenue earning, corporate management and demand management
• Working with safe water supply and sanitation for urban risk management and wastewater management.

Jun 2002 – Sep 2005 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Worked as an environmental / natural resources management analyst for development of model for sea level rise impact on land use for the districts: Shatkhira, Khulna and Bagerhat in Bangladesh.
• Worked with WARPO (Water Resources Planning Organization) to prepare National Adaptation Program for Action (NAPA) document for Water, coastal, natural disaster and health sector for future climate changes.
• Worked with Riverside Technology, Inc., (RTi), from USA as a hydrologist in development of community based flood information system (CFIS) model in Daulatpur and Nagarpur Upazilas, Bangladesh for risk reduction by providing advance information on flood to the community.
• Worked with CARE Bangladesh as project coordinator to implement the cyclone shelter management system for high-risk area in the coastal zone of Bangladesh. This include status survey of shelters, building user friendly GIS based database and a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) for resource allocation to implement new shelters and maintenance programme.
• Worked as scientist in development of CLASIC (CLimate And Sea Level Change in part of the Indian Sub-Continent) project funded by DFID. The study was examining the implication of changes in climate and sea level rise on water resources availability and coastal flooding with particular reference to Bangladesh.
• Worked with Delft Hydraulics, Netherland as a analyst to implement computational framework for IWRM for the Ministry of Water Resources of Bangladesh. Under this program, sectoral water demand, availability, constraints, land and water resource allocation rules will be computed for the national level water resource planning. Several models were introduce and developed ( SOBEK, RIBSIM, PCRASTER, etc)
• Participate in producing report on need assessment for flood and erosion information at national and local level under Environmental Monitoring Information Network (EMIN) project funded CIDA.

Jun 2002 – Jun 2003 · 1 yr · Dhaka, Bangladesh

• Assist in development flood forecasting models. Technical support on annual report and technical report writing. Data Analysis on hydrology.