Dr. Roger S. Pulwarty is the Senior Scientist and Acting Director in the NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) at the NOAA Office of Oceans and Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. He was previously the Senior Scientist and the Director of the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) in the NOAA Climate Program Office. His over one hundred and twenty peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and technical reports, focus on weather, water, and climate science, risk management and information services in the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean. Roger has designed and led widely-recognized programs dealing with science and regional information services, including the Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments, NIDIS, the GEF Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate project in the Caribbean, and the InterAmerican Institute Collaborative Research Network on Eastern Pacific Boundary Currents. Roger has served as a convening lead author to the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Global Assessment Reports, the IPCC Working Group II and Special Reports on Water Resources and on Extremes, and the US National Climate Assessment, among others. He has served on scientific committees of the National Academy of Sciences, provided testimonies before the U.S. Congress, and acts as a scientific expert on disaster risk management and services to the Western Governors Association, the European Union, the Organization of American States, OECD, International Federation of Red Cross/Red Crescent, the UNDP, UNCCD, the UNEP and the InterAmerican and World Banks, among others. He is a member of the International Drought Management Program Board, the WMO Commission on Services, the cross-agency US National Drought Resilience Partnership, co-chairs the NIDIS Executive Council, and the Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center Advisory Board. Among other professional committees he has served on the Global Climate Observing System, the White House Task Forces on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus and on Climate and National Security. On behalf of NOAA, Roger co-chairs the ICAMS Climate Services Committee, the Subcommittee on Resilience Science and Technology, and the U.S. Co-chair for UN Sustainable Development Goal 6 (Water). He is the recipient of the 2016 American Geophysical Union Gilbert F. White Natural Hazards Lectureship and Award, invited opening keynotes at Pontifical Academy of Sciences (2024) and the World Water Forum, and at the 2016 Adaptation Forum which is the largest adaptation science conference in the world, and is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Indian Sciences and Engineering Society, and an Honorary Diplomate of the European Association of Water Resources Scientists and Engineers. Roger's work on integrating science into decision-making has been featured in several media communications, including the New York Times, National Geographic, the Atlantic, Forbes and the BBC and has been awarded by NOAA, the Department of Commerce, and with the Gold Medal for Applied Sciences from the NIHERST/Caribbean Academy of Sciences. He received the Presidential Distinguished Rank Award and the 2022 AGU Science Ambassador Award for exceptional scientific and societal impact on disaster response, preparedness and risk reduction. He is Professor-Adjunct at the University of Colorado and the University of the West Indies, and is the co-editor of “Hurricanes: Climate and Socioeconomic Impacts” (Springer, re-issued in paperback 2012), and “Drought and Water Crises" (CRC Taylor and Francis Press, 2017).