Bernard McCaul is Latin America regional director and deputy director of program innovation at GOAL. He is a chartered engineer with a master’s degree in engineering science. Bernard is the inspiration behind GOAL’s Resilience, Innovation and Learning Hub and led the development of the Resilience for Social Systems approach and the Analysis of the Resilience of Communities to Disasters toolkit. Bernard has also guided the development of GOAL’s programs in the Latin America and the Caribbean region targeting resilience of informal urban settlements — Barrio Resiliente — and Resilience of the Blue Economy.