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Femke is a CRED researcher on natural disaster impacts. She graduated as an Engineer in Human Nutrition and Health at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, specializing in Public Health. Since 2006, she has worked in Nutritional Sciences developing a database on micronutrients (INRA, France), and has participated in the European Network of Excellence on Food Composition Databank systems. In her current role, Femke Vos works with CRED's international disaster database (EM-DAT)analyzing global data on natural disaster impacts on human society.

Debarati Guha-Sapir is Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) and Professor at University of Louvain School of Public Health, in Brussels, Belgium. She holds an Adjunct Professorship at Tulane University Medical Centre (New Orleans) for Health and Humanitarian Aid. Trained in Calcutta University, Johns Hopkins University and University of Louvain she holds a Ph.D in epidemiology.

Jose Rodriguez is a Research Assistant at CRED. He obtained a degree in veterinary medicine in 2003 at the University of Cordoba, Spain and did postgraduate studies at the Veterinary School of Maisons Alfort in Paris, France. He worked in Conservation Biology for three years in Spain and was recently trained in Biostatistics at KU Leuven. Since joining CRED in March 2009, he has been analyzing flood impacts on child malnutrition and studying the trends in exposure to floods in Europe.

Regina has worked at CRED for over 20 years. As technical support staff, she is involved in different activities of the centre and is in charge of the International Disaster Database (EM-DAT) project.

Alexander F. Díaz is a Technical Computer Engineer at CRED. He has a technical computer degree from CECEP Foundation of Cali in Colombia and a background in Management and Business Administration from the Free University of Cali. Before joining CRED, Alex worked in the insurance sector and in a private energy company in Colombia as developer and as IT manager of the financial department, respectively. He also worked for ITC services in Spain as a developer in B2B and in Belgium as a developer of B2B software and in marketing.