Marcie Roth

Ms. Marcie Roth is Executive Director and CEO of the World Institute on Disability, advancing rights and opportunities for 1.3 billion people with disabilities worldwide. She brings over four decades of leadership in global initiatives on equity, accessibility and inclusion focusing on sustainable development, disaster risk reduction, early warnings, humanitarian action, climate justice and community resilience for governments, corporations, health systems, and the United Nations. Appointed by President Obama to the U.S Department of Homeland Security FEMA from 2009 to 2017, she continues to lead strategy and solutions for disability accessibility and inclusion before, during and after disasters. Marcie launched and co-leads the Global Alliance for Disaster Resource Acceleration, closing the gaps in humanitarian assistance to crisis and disaster-impacted disability-led organizations across the world. She has served as a global leader throughout the development and implementation of the United Nations Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 - 2030 and has served on the Sendai Framework Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism since its inception.