Dr. Rajesh Divakaran
Senior Risk Management Advisor, UNHCR, Geneva
Dr. Rajesh Divakaran is a senior risk management advisor at UNHCR in Geneva. He brings more than 25 years of experience across global health, humanitarian work, climate risk, and organisational management.
Professional Experience
Dr. Divakaran’s career has included work with UNHCR and other international organisations in Geneva, Bangladesh, and India. His professional practice spans risk, project, and change management in public health and humanitarian settings.
Risk, Climate and Humanitarian Work
His areas of work include climate vulnerability, organisational risk, project management, and the application of analytical methods to complex humanitarian programmes. He has also contributed to professional discussions on emerging risks in the humanitarian sector.
Research and Publications
His published work includes research on introducing operations research into non-governmental organisation management and policy practice, along with writing on leprosy programmes and access to health care.