Catalina Jaime is the Head of Climate and Conflict at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, lead on Anticipatory Action in Conflcit at the Anticipation Hub and trustee at Map Action.

Catalina has more than 20 years’ experience in humanitarian action, with a focus on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in humanitarian settings.  She is a contributing author to the IPCC’s sixth assessment report (Chapter 17, on decision-making options for managing risk), and since 2021 has lead the partnership with the International Committee of the Red Cross on the integration of climate risk for their operations worldwide. 

She has contributed to the strategic development of anticipatory action in the International Federation of the Red Cross Red Crescent Societies, the creation of the Anticipation Hub and was Knowledge Manager of the UK-funded Science for Humanitarian Emergencies and Resilience programme, which closed recently.

Catalina’s background is in industrial engineering. She holds a master’s degree in humanitarian action, specializing in conflict, disasters and peacebuilding, from Deusto and Uppsala Universities.

She is currently doing a PhD at the University of Twente on aspects of early warning and early action in situations of conflict and is a guest lecturer at a number of universities.