Missaka Hettiarachchi holds a Ph.D. in environmental planning and policy from The University of Queensland, Australia. He is a WWF senior fellow attached to the Environment and Disaster Management (EDM) program, a research associate at the University of Melbourne, and adjunct associate professor at James Cook University. He represents WWF in the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Buildings and Construction Program’s Multistakeholder Advisory Committee. He has worked as an environmental adviser for the UN Emergency Shelter Cluster in Haiti (2010) and the Philippines (2013) and conducted the Green Recovery and Reconstruction training in Nepal following the 2015 earthquake.