Jair Torres is the Programme Management Officer of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) for the Americas and the Caribbean, based in Bridgetown, Barbados. He is the UNDRR focal point for the Early Warning for All Initiative and for the different regional and national's projects related to MHEWS, for instance through the Climate Related Early Warning Systems (CREWS).
For more than 13 years he worked at UNESCO where he served as a consultant in the Unit for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience, as well as contributing to the International Hydrological Program and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission.
He was responsible for the International Platform for Earthquake Early Warning Systems, the International Network for Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems, the Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector, and the UNESCO Program to Measure Resilience.
He holds a PhD in Risk and Emergency Management from the University School for Advanced Studies of Pavia (IUSS).