Prof. Bingunath (Bingu) Ingirige is Chair of Project Management and Resilience at the School of Art Design & Architecture and attached to the Global Disaster Resilience Centre (GDRC), University of Huddersfield, UK. His main research interests are in the area of flood adaptation and community resilience against flooding and other weather extremes.

Bingu has been the co-investigator of the EPSRC funded Community Resilience to Extreme Weather (CREW) and also the lead investigator of the Salford team in the EU Horizon 2020 funded EU-CIRCLE project that looks into critical infrastructure resilience. Bingu also led an RICS Research trust funded project where he profiled the recovery of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in Cockermouth Cumbria and skills, competencies and educational requirements of Chartered Surveyors in undertaking flood resilience advise. The project was titled “DEveloping Flood Expert kNnowledge in CharterEd Surveors (DEFENCES).

He has extensive experience in investigating resilience measures of small businesses, private sector and other stakeholder collaborative engagement processes and capacity building knowledge sharing activities between developed and developing countries that contribute towards policy initiatives in the area. Among his publications is a background paper titled “private investment and disaster risk management” to the UNISDR’s 2015 Global Assessment Report (GAR). He is also a contributing author of the report of the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (UK CCRA), particularly its chapter on business and industry. Bingu is a member of the Flooding and Insurance Working Group of the RICS and a member of the Salford Strategic Flood Forum.