Damien Riquet
Regional Anticipatory Actions Specialist
Bangkok, Thailand
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Top SchoolDamien Riquet is a disaster risk management specialist with more than 20 years’ experience designing and coordinating resilience, anticipatory action and contingency planning programs across Asia, the Pacific, Africa and the Indian Ocean. He currently serves as Regional Anticipatory Actions Specialist for FAO in Bangkok, having previously led Forecast-based Financing projects for the German Red Cross that developed and activated multiple Early Action Protocols for typhoons, floods and drought. Damien combines field-facing project leadership and donor management with technical skills in risk analysis, EAP design, M&E and policy advice, having supported UNDP, MSB, Red Cross societies and multiple NGOs. He began his career as a software engineer building real-time geophysical monitoring tools, a background that gives him a pragmatic appreciation for early warning systems and technical integrations. Known for turning complex institutional requirements into operational EAPs and capacity-building initiatives, he brings a hands-on, systems-oriented approach to anticipatory humanitarian action. Fluent in multi-stakeholder coordination, he often bridges technical teams, national authorities and donors to move plans from policy to practice.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Energy, Engineer's degree, Energy at Ecole centrale de Marseille
Github Skills (27)
zip10
minizip10
git-svn10
svn9
xz9
pkware9
lzma9
zlib9
rcs9
encryption9
compression9
latex8
deflate8
linux8
windows8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
driquet/gwcd
Oct 2014 - Mar 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 5 months
driquet/rcs-latexdiff
Apr 2013 - Nov 2018
A tool to generate a latexdiff of a file (contained in a RCS like Git, svn, Mercurial, etc.) for several version.
Contributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 7 pushes in 5 years 7 months
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