Dr Regan Potangaroa is Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa. He is a Professor of Architectural Science at the School of Architecture at Victoria University Wellington. He has been deployed over 200 times with the UN, the IFRC and national societies of the Red Cross/Red Crescent, large INGO’s, Governments and universities to disasters in 26 countries including the 2011 Christchurch and 2016 Kaikoura earthquake responses.