Ms. Marikris Dickson de Guzman
Regional Focal Point, Asia DRR Youth Network (Major Group of Children and Youth)
Marikris Dickson de Guzman is an advocate of good governance and disaster risk reduction from the Philippines. She helped organize and coordinate disaster risk reduction activities and programs with different government and non-government agencies as a Climate Action and Disaster Risk Reduction Coordinator at the Philippine National Youth Commission-Committee on Environment in 2015. While working at the Department of Social Welfare and Development, she participated in the Philippine government’s humanitarian response when Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines in 2013 through helping in the logistics of relief distribution.
She presented an environment and DRR-related project together with a team in the UNESCO Looking Beyond Disasters 2013 forum in Indonesia, which was funded by the ASEAN Youth Volunteers Program and implemented in the Philippines. Marikris presented in international conferences such as the World Water Forum in South Korea, the 2nd Asia-Pacific Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation in Malaysia, and the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in India.
As a researcher, she contributed to research projects on poverty assessment, agriculture, labor unions, and social impact bonds. She currently serves as Associate Director of the Social Impact Bond Lab under the Zuellig School of Development Management- Asian Institute of Management.
She presented an environment and DRR-related project together with a team in the UNESCO Looking Beyond Disasters 2013 forum in Indonesia, which was funded by the ASEAN Youth Volunteers Program and implemented in the Philippines. Marikris presented in international conferences such as the World Water Forum in South Korea, the 2nd Asia-Pacific Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation in Malaysia, and the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in India.
As a researcher, she contributed to research projects on poverty assessment, agriculture, labor unions, and social impact bonds. She currently serves as Associate Director of the Social Impact Bond Lab under the Zuellig School of Development Management- Asian Institute of Management.