Municipality of the Month




Advocates

  Mauricio Saldivar
Argentina
Advocate of the Making Cities Resilient Campaign
 
 


Professional Profile

Meteorologist, graduated in Education and Environmental Sciences and followed studies on Disaster Risk Management and Science Journalism. Mr Saldivar worked at the Meteorological Service of Argentina for more than 20 years, where he specialized in weather forecasting, remote sensing and information for emergency management, after which he started working for the private sector. Mr Saldivar developed his profile as broadcast meteorologist and science journalist leading his own television program in Argentina for more than 20 years. Currently Mr Saldivar works as consultant and broadcast meteorologist, risk management and environment, specialized in the design and implementation of Early Warning Systems. He is also lecturer on Climate Change. Mr Saldivar is a board member of the International Association of Broadcast Meteorology (IABM), consultant on Disaster Risk Management and Director of the Hydro meteorological Agency of the Municipality La Plata, Argentina.


    
 
 

“While assessing and informing about hydrometeorological hazards, I realized that if the community did not know how to face them, those warnings were ineffective and insufficient to reduce their impact once materialized. Thus my interest in Disaster Risk Management finding in the Global Campaign “Making Cities Resilient” the fundamental tools to achieve the objectives of the Hyogo and Sendai Frameworks. My goal as Campaign Advocate is to create awareness among communities and local governments about the need to become resilient through adequate preparation, in order to reduce vulnerability and to mitigate the impact of disasters within a framework of sustainable development”.

Mauricio Saldivar