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Washington DC '24
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Wim Zwijnenburg

He/Him.

Project Leader Humanitarian Disarmament at PAX.

About

Wim Zwijnenburg is a Humanitarian Disarmament Project Leader for the Dutch peace organisation PAX. His work focuses on emerging military technologies, and the environmental dimensions of armed conflicts. For their work on environment and conflict PAX received the 2017 UNEP/OCHA Green Star Award, and the 2023 Environmental Peacebuilding Association’s Al-Moumin Award He undertakes research and training of local partners on environmental monitoring in conflicted areas and engages on UN and humanitarian advocacy on environment, peace and security. He is a contributor to the open-source investigative journalism collective Bellingcat, exploring identification and monitoring of environmental issues with open-source information and remote sensing data. He holds a Master in International Development Studies from the Radboud University Nijmegen and received a Philosophy scholarship from the Thomas More Foundation.


On the agenda

  1. Application Talks

    May. 17 '24, 11:30am
    Lightning Talks
    The Forum (North)
    • A Light in the Dark: Detecting Mini-Grid Electrification with Remote Sensing in Sub-Saharan Africa (Isaiah Lyons-Galante)
    • Energy Access Explorer: A Digital Public Good to Enable Climate-friendly and Viable Energy Transitions for All (Santiago Sinclair Lecaros)
    • United We Observe: Collaborative EO Satellite Efforts in Tackling Environmental Challenges (David "Chalky" Petterson)
    • Leveraging remote sensing data for environmental project diligence and monitoring transparency (Katie Tyler)
    • Leveraging Earth Observation to Track Conflict-linked Environmental Damages (Wim Zwijnenburg)
    • Finding the 140,000 impacted by Hurricane Iota in Honduras (Ian Coady)
    • The science and practice of war damage impact assessment using satellite radar (Corey Scher)

    Moderators

    1. Madison Musgrave

    Speakers

    1. Isaiah Lyons-Galante
    2. Santiago Sinclair Lecaros
    3. David "Chalky" Petterson
    4. Katie Tyler
    5. Wim Zwijnenburg
    6. Ian Coady
    7. Corey Scher

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Sponsors

Platinum

  1. NASA Lifelines

Bronze

  1. Element84

  2. Esri

  3. Impact Observatory

  4. United States Agency for International Development (USAID)


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