ISRM Global Roundtable: What Can Academia Offer To Global Risk and Crisis Management?

Thursday 19^th November 2020, 1.00 – 3.00 pm /GMT/

Given that the theme of the programme is the contribution that academia can make to global risk and crisis management, this roundtable will feature three of the world’s leading authorities on the subject.

Patrick Lagadec will be known to anyone who has any interest in the academic side of hyper-complex crisis scenarios. His papers on Unconventional Crises, Unconventional Responses – Reforming Leadership (2007) and A New Cosmology of Risk and Crises (2009) are both available in the ISRM Public Library.

Professor David Alexander is a teacher, researcher, writer, editor, project leader and government advisor. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.

Professor Stephen Flynn established the Global Resilience Institute after a distinguished career in government service, serving as President of the Center for National Policy following a decade as a senior fellow for National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on critical infrastructure and supply chain security and resilience.

Join us for what will undoubtedly be a lively discussion on a subject that has global significance for all of us.