Peeranan is ADPC’s Director for Risk Analytics & Climate Services, focusing on improving uses of science-based solutions for addressing disaster, climate change, and environmental issues in Asia and the Pacific. He spearheaded regional, national, and sub-national projects developing disaster and climate risk analytics that had been used for prioritizing preventive and mitigation measures, risk-sensitive land use planning, risk financing applications, and improved building codes.

Peeranan leads a team of more than 20 international experts on GIS, remote sensing, data science, meteorology, hydrology, agriculture, land cover mapping, and climate risk as well as capacity building, communications, knowledge management, gender equity and social inclusion, and M&E.

Dr. Towashiraporn holds Ph.D. Degree in civil engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.