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Dr. Harpal S. Mavi is a climate risk management consultant in Sydney, australia. His work involves research in climate impacts on crops, insect-pests and crop diseases, and strategies for climate related risk management. Before going into consultancy services, he was an agroclimatologist in the New South Wales Department of Agriculture. Earlier, he was Professor of Agrometeorology at Punjab Agricultural University in India where he taught climatology and agrometeorology for over two decades. Dr. Mavi has been the research supervisor of twenty postgraduate students majoring in agrometeorology. In addition, he has been on the research advisory committee of scores of students majoring in agronomy, soil science, soil and water engineering, entomology, plant pathology, and botany. He has advised mumerous individuals, and organizations in climate-related risk management.

Mr. Graeme J. Tupper is Technical Specialist, Resource Information, in the NSW Department of Agriculture, australia. His work involves research, development, and service projects in the application of spatial information technology to agriculture. Specific projects include monthly rainfall "drought" mapping, fire and flood mapping and monitoring, monitoring endemic livestock diseases, weed detection and mapping research, and water reform structural adjustment mapping. Mr. Tupper is an agricultural scientist and has worked in this capacity in research, academic, and extension institutions in Australia, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, and the United States, in environments ranging from semi-arid rangelands through temperate to tropical agriculture.