James Lewis

• Co-founder, with 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 and member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). International involvement in management, 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.