Professor Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett is a social scientist specialising in disaster risk reduction and international development at the interface with public health.
She is the founding president of the Avoidable Deaths Network (ADN), a founding governing board member and interim associate director of the Institute for Environmental Futures at the University of Leicester. Nibedita is a global expert at the International Science Council.
She launched the flexible learning MSc Risk, Crisis, and Disaster Management in 2020. In 2023, she launched the ADN’s global campaign, ’International Awareness Day for Avoidable Deaths’ (IAD4AD), with her research partner, Dr Hideyuki Shiroshita.