Dr. Monique Kuglitsch is the Innovation Manager at Fraunhofer HHI and Chair of the ITU/WMO/UNEP Focus Group on AI for Natural Disaster Management. She also serves as an Expert in the Working Group on AI Capacity Building for the ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development. As a researcher, she has investigated past climate change, extreme weather events, and regional climate model projections.