Part of our work involves interviewing experts in different fields about aspects to avoiding and minimising disasters. This section contains our interviews. We intend to keep adding interviews to this section over time.
If you have any suggestions for people we could interview, please let us know.
Ms Mizutori, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and Head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) spoke with us in November 2023 about the mission of UNDRR and the UNDRR Work Programme 2024-2025...
Ruth spoke with us in early 2024 about the way that wildfire disasters are being avoided in Australia. We discussed how the country has learned from previous major fires and how it is moving forwards in an inclusive way...
Rajeev spoke with us in March 2024 about about the work of UNDP in urban resilience and disaster risk, and how people across multiple organisations can work together to make the world’s cities and towns more resilient and sustainable.
Guillermo spoke with us in December 2023 about the role of insurance in avoiding disasters. We discussed new solutions that are being developed and how the insurance industry needs to change to equip itself for the future...
We caught up with Gordon in November 2023 to discuss how counterfactual thinking can help us to avoid disasters.
In this interview we discussed whether counterfactual analysis is used enough today, and opportunities to increase its usage...
We were delighted to discuss the work of Shubharoop Ghosh and Marina Mendoza ImageCat in October 2023...
We spoke with Peter and Ben in September 2023 about the work of ARISE-US for cities in avoiding disasters...
Michel spoke with us in September 2023 about the importance of good structural engineering in avoiding disasters...
We caught up with Pete in June 2023 about the work of Engineers Without Borders Australia and their perspectives...
In this interview with Armen we discuss the details of how disaster risk management is being approached in Armenia...
We discussed the challenges that SIDS face with Emily Wilkinson of the ODI...
We spoke with SVRK Prabhakar of IGES in June 2023 about climate adaptation and the linkage with disaster risks...
You can access all our interviews here (more will be added over time):
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If you have any feedback or suggestions for us about our interviews and any suggestions for us to interview people, please let us know!
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