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  • The Essentials of Supply Chain Disaster Recovery

    The Essentials of Supply Chain Disaster Recovery

    Recent history demonstrates how vulnerable companies are to disruptions in their supply chains. Whether it’s a flood, tsunami, earthquake, volcano, disease, port strike, data breach, or any number of other potential disasters, the impact on global organizations is immense. Yet many seem not to have got the message. What’s gone wrong? Read more

  • Public-Private Partnerships are essential to attaining the next level of resilience in Japan and the greater global community 

    Public-Private Partnerships are essential to attaining the next level of resilience in Japan and the greater global community 

    This month marks the anniversary of the cascading disaster that started with the Great Eastern Earthquake, triggering the tsunami and subsequent Fukushima nuclear meltdown that devastated northern Japan on March 11, 2011. On the occasion of the anniversary of this recent tragedy, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) hosted its third World… Read more

  • Speaking: The United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

    Speaking: The United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

    Setting a course to greater resilience. Read more

  • Davos 2014: Climate Change at the World Economic Forum

    Davos 2014: Climate Change at the World Economic Forum

    Again this year, world leaders gathered at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to wax poetic about global problems. A major topic of discussion at this year’s event was climate change.  Climate change and its impact are a key cause of economic uncertainty and a threat to global security. That is evident from… Read more

  • NYU: Concentration to Career Series

    NYU: Concentration to Career Series

    I have been invited to speak at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs on November 1 about my experience building an international career in the private sector.  The event is part of a series highlighting the work of recent alumni in a variety of fields.  I will focus specifically on my experience as Director of Global Operations… Read more

  • Public-Private Partnerships for Critical Infrastructure

    Public-Private Partnerships for Critical Infrastructure

    In my last post, I announced that I would be speaking as part of the public-private partnerships track at Global Risk Forum‘s 4th Conference on Community Resiliency.  I am pleased to report that the conference was a successful event that led to stimulating discussion about anti-disaster strategies and other topics.  The main topic of the conference was… Read more