Sustainable development goals
At Constellia, we believe strengthening climate resilience can enable communities to improve multiple UN sustainable development goals (SDGs).
Climate risk is hyperlocal and requires local knowledge to best address local challenges. We create a sustainable ecosystem that builds local capacity so communities can quickly adapt to climate change and build the resilience they need. With our partners, we provide technical training on the hardware lifecycle to create local ownership and agency. Through climate resilience, we thus build capacity and create economic opportunity to rural and remote communities.
At Constellia, we believe strengthening climate resilience can enable communities to improve multiple UN sustainable development goals (SDGs).
With over 20 years experience in quantitative finance, Brian has developed real-time prediction models for asset prices, credit default risk, and portfolio risk, as well as numerous classification models. He has created simulation engines for modeling various financial risks. Brian has taught master’s classes in data science for over 7 years and is a pioneer in reproducible science, where he is completing his book Introduction to Reproducible Science in R. Recently Brian has turned his attention to climate adaptation and is focused on helping communities accelerate their adaptation initiatives. His most recent company, Constellia, brings together his experience in time series forecasting with his background in electrical engineering.
Abdala brings over 12 years of expertise in climate-smart agriculture, agroforestry, and resilience programming. He holds an MSc and BSc in Forestry from Sokoine University of Agriculture and has successfully led large-scale initiatives addressing climate risks in Tanzania’s semi-arid regions. While working with ICRAF (World Agroforestry Centre) in Tanzania, including Dodoma, he introduced agroforestry and conservation agriculture practices that increased crop yields by 30% through tree-crop intercropping in drought-prone areas. He has also coordinated and managed a €2.5 million restoration project and established more than 1000 demonstration plots, directly benefitting 5,000+ smallholder farmers in semi-arid regions such as Dodoma.
Constellia has participated in the following incubators and accelerators.
