Antonia Samur is a Senior Staff Associate at the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) at the Columbia Climate School, Columbia University. Antonia has experience working in the interface of climate impacts and human development, focusing most of her academic and professional career to studying and developing tools to overcome the impacts that climate change and other disasters have on human development in vulnerable populations. Antonia is currently leading NCDP’s work with the government of Puerto Rico training child-serving organizations to be better prepared to meet the needs of children in disasters, along with assisting the research and coordination of several other projects. She has vast international experience, which include working for UN agencies in Chile and Kenya and youth leadership networks in New York City. Antonia earned a double master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and Paris’ School of Political Studies (Sciences Po Paris) in 2018, where she specialized in climate change policy. Antonia has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from University of Chile.
