Prof. James Daniell is a civil and structural engineer, geophysicist and geologist specialising in global stochastic and real-time risk modelling for disasters; global data analytics, loss data (CATDAT), building codes, exposure and socioeconomic models over the last two decades for various entities including governments, insurers, reinsurers, universities and other companies. He works on projects as a Lead Disaster Risk Management consultant within the World Bank/GFDRR globally, leading the global rapid damage estimation (GRADE) pillar, facilitating rapid financial responses to disasters worldwide, and working on Country Disaster Risk Profiles and other open software, exposure and risk solutions. He is a John Monash Scholar of Australia, Professor (adjunct) at University of Adelaide in Australia and Senior Research Scientist at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany (where he earlier did his PhD in rapid loss analytics).