Swathi Veeravalli is Principal of General Resilience Solutions and a Research Advisor to the Toda Peace Institute. She most recently served as Director for Climate Security & Adaptation at the White House National Security Council, leading efforts to integrate climate resilience into U.S. national security strategy. She previously held senior roles at U.S. Africa Command, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and USAID. With over 20 years of global experience in more than 80 countries, she now combines practice with research as a PhD candidate at Wageningen University, studying institutional adaptation to climate change.

Session: 

• Rethinking vulnerability and resilience in island nations

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