Biography
Sanjaya Bhatia is the Head of the Office for Northeast Asia (ONEA) and Global Education and Training Institute (GETI) for Disaster Risk Reduction in Incheon, Republic of Korea, where he has guided the training of over 8000 government officials globally.
Before taking this position Sanjaya Bhatia worked as head of the International Recovery Platform (IRP) - Secretariat in Kobe, Japan where he led the development of the Guidance Notes on Recovery and supervised a capacity-building program for national and local governments, along with other knowledge management functions. He trained over 850 government officials in that period. Earlier as the Focal Point Disaster Resilient Schools and Hospitals with the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) of the World Bank he was instrumental in the development of the “Guidance Notes on Safer School Construction” and the “Guidance Notes on Integrating DRR in Health Sector Projects” and financing of projects on safe schools and hospitals. He has worked with the Government of India (Indian Administrative Service), the World Bank, and the United Nations in the field of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation for over 30 years.
Before taking this position Sanjaya Bhatia worked as head of the International Recovery Platform (IRP) - Secretariat in Kobe, Japan where he led the development of the Guidance Notes on Recovery and supervised a capacity-building program for national and local governments, along with other knowledge management functions. He trained over 850 government officials in that period. Earlier as the Focal Point Disaster Resilient Schools and Hospitals with the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) of the World Bank he was instrumental in the development of the “Guidance Notes on Safer School Construction” and the “Guidance Notes on Integrating DRR in Health Sector Projects” and financing of projects on safe schools and hospitals. He has worked with the Government of India (Indian Administrative Service), the World Bank, and the United Nations in the field of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation for over 30 years.
