Biography

Anarita Widyaningrum (Ana) is a Disaster Risk Reduction and Management practitioner, currently completing a Master of Disaster Management at the University of Auckland. Her thesis examines how disaster risk knowledge is produced through mapping in Indonesia, drawing on critical cartography and power/knowledge frameworks. Ana has worked across government and non-governmental organisations in Indonesia, spanning project management, stakeholder management, policy and technical writing, research projects, and capacity building. She currently works on an international partnership project in Disaster Risk Management in Indonesia. Her research interests include epistemologies of disaster risk, critical approaches to risk governance, and how research, practice, and policy can better inform one another. Ana is a native speaker of Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese and fluent in English. More information: LinkedIn profile (https://www.linkedin.com/in/anarita-widyaningrum-665238122).