Prof. Karnawati is the Director of the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics. Previously, she was the first female President of Universitas Gadjah Mada and Professor in Environmental Geology and Disaster Mitigation. She is an internationally recognized expert on disaster risk reduction and early warning, with a PhD in Earth Sciences and post-doctoral research on hydro-meteorological disaster prediction. She has served as Vice-President of the International Consortium on Landslides since 2015 and chairs the Inter-governmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System. Prof. Karnawati has actively promoted integration of social concerns in technical systems for disaster risk reduction, leading to the adoption of an international standard for community-based landslide early warning (ISO 22327). She also led efforts for the establishment of the Multi-Hazard Early Warning System in Indonesia. In her current role, she drives innovation on early warning technology and impact-based forecasting systems, powered by big data, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things.