John Harding has over 25 years of experience working on resilience, climate change, and development programmes. He is currently the Director of the Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) Secretariat at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). His experience includes positions at the United Nations in Geneva and New York, the World Bank in Washington, D.C, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Haiti and the UN Resident Coordinators Office in Pakistan.