Dr. Tommaso Natoli

Tommaso Natoli is an Irish Research Council/Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action CAROLINE Fellow in the School of Law of the University College Cork (UCC). He has been seconded as a researcher to the Disaster Law Programme in the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) headquarters in Geneva for one year (2019-2020). His research project, entitled ‘Leave No One Behind: Developing Climate-Smart/Disaster Risk Management Laws that Protect People in Vulnerable Situations for a Comprehensive Implementation of the UN Agenda 2030’ is an EU funded two-year project encompassing analysis of the global integration of the climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and SDGs legal and policy frameworks, assessed through empirical research conducted in three different regional contexts (https://media.ifrc.org/ifrc/what-we-do/disaster-law/leave-no-one-behind/). Previously engaged as a post-doc research fellow in International Law at the Roma Tre University (2015-2018), Dr Natoli's research interests focus on international disaster law, human rights law and international organisations law. He holds a PhD in International Law at Sapienza University (Rome), where he discussed a piece of research titled “The Humanitarian Response to Major Disasters: Legal Issues and Normative Dynamics”. In the context of his research and teaching activities, he investigated legal instruments on humanitarian issues and human rights protection in conflict and disaster-related scenarios, as well as disaster regulation in the international and regional legal systems. He is Head of the Editorial Committee of the Yearbook of International Disaster Law (Brill | Nijhoff), Co-Director of the IDL Course at the IIHL (Sanremo) and is also currently serving as a scientific consultant for the Italian Red Cross.