James Lewis

• Co-founder, with Dr Michael Gane, of the Disaster Research Unit, University of Bradford (1973-77) http://www.ilankelman.org/bdru.html and Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow; also at the University of Bath (1977-80) and subsequently Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath.
• Datum International established in1980 for the undertaking of overseas consultancies with the United Nations organisations and agencies (UNCTAD, UNEP, UNESCO, UN Habitat & WHO), the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation, and the European Commission.
• Author of “Development in Disaster-prone Places: Studies of Vulnerability” (1999: IT / Practical Action, London).
• Author of numerous chapters and papers on vulnerability to natural hazards, corruption, island vulnerability, climate change, and their interconnections with socio-economic capacity and development.
• Commissioned author to Transparency International Berlin for contributions to Global Corruption Reports of 2005, Corruption in Construction, and 2011, Corruption and Climate Change.
• Trained and practiced as an architect; Chartered Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA): International management and inspection, applications and implications of construction, destruction and reconstruction in Algeria, Bangladesh, the Caribbean, China (Hong Kong), the South Pacific, the United Kingdom and the USA.

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