Markus Enenkel

Markus Enenkel is a senior research fellow at Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, disaster risk management consultant at the World Bank’s disaster risk financing and insurance team, and the co-founder of an ESA-funded start-up named Perigee. His research concentrates on the combined use of earth observation and socioeconomic data to develop tailored financial instruments, aiming to support humanitarian preparedness activities and the World Bank's anticipatory financing initiatives. Markus has worked with different humanitarian aid organizations, such as Doctors without Borders and the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, space agencies (NASA, ESA), and the United Nations (WFP, FAO, OCHA, UNDP, SPIDER). Until 2019, he supported the global disaster risk management of SOS Children’s Villages International. Markus holds a joint master's degree from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (Vienna, Austria)/Lincoln University (New Zealand) and a PhD in microwave remote sensing from Vienna University of Technology. His post-doc research at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (Columbia University) concentrated on the integration of satellite-derived soil moisture into parametric drought insurance.

Markus is a member of GEO DRR Working Group, supporting subgroup 2, involved in Tasks 2.1 and 2.3.