Anwar Baksh presently serves as the Planning and Development Officer and lead of the
Mitigation, Planning and Research Unit at the Office of Disaster Preparedness and
Management Trinidad and Tobago. Anwar’s role has presented him with great opportunities to
utilize his full cadre of skills to promote disaster risk reduction and management with Trinidad
and Tobago and by extension the Caribbean Region. His expertise lies in communications and
networking where technical capacity meets human interaction. Critical to his function is the
focus on the advancement of the Governance framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management in Trinidad and Tobago in support to the implementation of the Sendai
Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030). To this end, Anwar was worked in
several areas of programmatic areas: Early Warning Systems, Recovery Planning, strategic
planning, partnership and resilience building and several other areas to support the national
DRRM agenda of Trinidad and Tobago. Through his work, Anwar has been able to strengthen
and forge partnerships across the regional and global landscape with the aim of strengthening
the resilience our country and the region. With the support of those around him, he is
determined and committed to disaster management and loss prevention in the face of climate
change for the small island developing state of Trinidad and Tobago.