Roberto Sandoval is currently the Disaster Risk Management Specialist and Emergency Focal Point of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations' (FAO-UN) Sub-Regional Office for the Caribbean, based in Barbados. He has been working for FAO since 2011 in the areas of Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation. Prior to joining the FAO Sub-regional Office for the Caribbean, he has been providing technical advice to the Ministries of Agriculture of the Philippines and Myanmar on Disaster Risk Reduction, Emergency Response, and Climate Change Adaptation.
His specific experiences include facilitating national agriculture DRM planning processes; disaster and climate change vulnerability, risk and impact assessments; community-based DRM/CCA planning and implementation; and integrating DRM/CCA into ecosystems-based/NRM approaches.
Dr. Sandoval is also an expert on systematic Drone-assisted Risk and Rapid Disaster Impact Assessments that utilizes a combination of drone, satellite and community-generated data. He is an environmental scientist by training.