GHI’s  staff is comprised of experienced professionals with diverse backgrounds, including earthquake science, engineering, medicine, law, communications, finance and international development. 

Dr. Mary Antonette Beroya-Eitner is an engineering geologist and global change ecologist with more than 30 years of experience in natural hazards and risk assessment relating to earthquake, landslide, flooding and other climate-related hazards. Her work includes assessing how climate change is modifying these hazards by incorporating climate model data, and how they can be mitigated, especially through nature-based solutions (NbS) and ecosystem-based adaptations (EbA).

Dr. Beroya-Eitner joined GHI as a project manager in 2023. She is currently managing the NbS program of GHI that is being implemented in the Philippines. She has also managed several multi-theme projects in Bhutan, India and Haiti. She is concurrently serving as an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Environmental Science and Meteorology of the University of the Philippines Diliman and an honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Manila Observatory.

Prior to joining GHI, she was a Senior Researcher and the International Research Coordinator of the Institute of Geotechnics at the Technical University of Darmstadt (TUDa), Germany. She was also the TUDa Coordinator of the EU project GEOLAB, a consortium of leading geotechnical institutions in Europe that aims to enhance the resilience of the critical infrastructures in the region, with focus on the transportation, water and energy sectors. She has served as a consultant/subject matter expert, mainly on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction, to various international organizations and UN affiliated agencies including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Earthquake and Megacities Initiatives (EMI), Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA) and Centre International de Formation des Autorités et Leaders (CIFAL). Much prior, she had worked for the Mines and Geosciences Bureau-Department of Environment and Natural Resources (MGB- DENR) of the Philippines as a Senior Science Research Specialist, as well as for a couple of non-government organizations in the Philippines.

Dr. Beroya-Eitner completed bachelor and master degrees in Geology from the University of the Philippines. She obtained her PhD degree in Engineering Geology from the University of Hong Kong. She has a second master degree in Global Change Ecology under the Elite International Masters Study Program of the University of Bayreuth, Germany. She also has a postdoctoral degree from the United Nations University-Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) and Tokyo University. Dr. Beroya-Eitner served as a Board of Director and Treasurer of the Geological Society of the Philippines and President of UP Cwm Z’enana Alumni Council, an association of professional female geologists in the Philippines.