Ashfaq Ahmad Shah is a researcher with multidimensional professional experience, with over eight years of experience in emergency response management with expertise in monitoring and evaluation, disaster risk reduction, management, and conflict contexts in the continuum from emergency to development in Pakistan, capable of integrating into a multidisciplinary, challenging, and highly volatile environment. Currently, they are working as a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Public Administration, Hohai University, Nanjing, China. Their areas of expertise are community-based disaster risk reduction/management (CBDRM), risk perceptions, vulnerability and resilience (V&R), public health in emergencies, disaster preparedness, capacity building of the local disaster management institutions, climate change adaptation, school-based disaster risk management (SBDRM), non-government and humanitarian organizations, leadership and ethics in crisis and humanitarian situations, and humanitarian emergency operations (including assessments, planning and implementation, and coordination), and they also remain involved in humanitarian assistance and emergency food security and livelihood programs with multiple donors, such as ECHO, OFDA SIDA, DFID, MFA, UNHCR, and Telethon.
