· Dr Fiona Twycross was appointed to the role of Deputy Mayor for Fire & Resilience, by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, in April 2018 and reappointed in May 2021.
· Prior to this she was Chair of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority from 2016 until its abolition in 2018. Fiona was responsible for developing London’s first City Resilience Strategy aimed at ensuring the capital is able to remain resilient and prepared for future challenges.
· As Chair of the London Resilience Forum, Fiona has overseen the response to COVID-19 on behalf of the Mayor including co-chairing the Strategic Coordination Group.
· From 2012 – 2020, Fiona was a member of the London Assembly. In this role she campaigned against food poverty and low pay. In March 2020 she stood down to focus on her deputy mayoral role.
· Prior to her election Fiona worked for the health charity Diabetes UK and has also held senior roles within the Labour Party. She has a PhD in Scandinavian literature from Edinburgh University and an MSc in Public Policy and Management from Birkbeck College, London. She was born, and lives in, South London.

· Has been with CityNet for the past 11 years where he has been in charge of multiple programs including those related to Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change, Education as well as outreach programs in Japan
· Founder of Mitra Disaster Risk Reduction Learning Center which is the first DRR learning Center in Nepal established in 2019

· Participated in the various national projects and researches on spatial policy support systems of housing and urban development for the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of Republic of Korea in Korea Land and Housing corporation(LH)
· worked as a staff secondent in Safer Cities Programme, UN-Habitat in 2018. In 2020, he joined at the department of smart city research of the Seoul Institute of Technology as a research fellow

· Head of the Office for Northeast Asia (ONEA) and Global Education and Training Institute (GETI) for Disaster Risk Reduction in Incheon, Republic of Korea
· Head of the International Recovery Platform (IRP) - Secretariat at Kobe, Japan
· Program Officer World Bank Group
· Government of India Civil Servant