You are invited to attend
UCL IRDR Fifth Annual Conference
Thursday 25th June 2015, 09:00 – 20:00, UCL Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre and South Cloisters
University College London, main quadrangle, South Wing
Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
A day of thought-provoking discussions, talks by experts and presentation of the latest research on risk and disaster reduction, aimed at researchers and practitioners, NGOs and City professionals, and the interested public. This event is free to attend, but you need to register here.
Conference Themes:
Current Views of Future Arctic Risks
Visualisation and Presentation of Hazards and Risks
Emergence and Management of the Ebola Crisis
Calculating, Portraying, Understanding and Reducing Risk
Keynote address on, “Communicating Risk and Hazard to Policy Makers” by Prof Sir Mark Walport, FRS, Chief Scientific Advisor to HM Government.
Other speakers include:
Dr Michael von Bertele CB OBE FRCP, Humanitarian Director, Save the Children
Prof Lord Julian Hunt, FRS, Emeritus Professor of Climate Modelling, UCL
Captain Tim Stockings, Operations Director, British Antarctic Survey
Tobias Sturt, Guardian Masterclasses in Data Visualisation