Seminar on Risk and Resilience: Current Developments and Trends

This seminar will analyze the Current Developments and Trends in Risk and Resilience. Nowadays, the rapid technological evolution and the extent of emerging threats defy us to enumerate the potential hazards, much less estimate reliable probabilities of occurrence and the magnitude of consequences. The presentation will address how a comprehensive approach to protecting the nation’s critical infrastructure, economy, and well-being must be risk based—not risk exclusive—and it must not end at risk assessment but rather provide a way for decision makers to make their organizational systems resilient to a range of threats within specific cost and time restraints. The seminar will review the history of risk assessment and management, discussing the emergence of resilience management and its role in Global Change research. Evidence will be provided from case studies in the areas of coastal infrastructure, cybersecurity, supply chain, and disease epidemics management. Finally, there will be presented the summaries of the two recent workshops on Risk and Resilience and will introduce the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC) Guidebook on Resilience released in Davos in August 2016.

Dr. Linkov leads the Risk and Decision Science Team and Focus Area at the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, he is also Adjunct Professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He has managed multiple risk assessments and risk management projects in the areas of resilient infrastructure, cybersecurity, nanomaterials, environmental management, climate change, energy, and systems vulnerability. Dr. Linkov is currently leading several projects implementing resilience management for cyber systems, critical infrastructure, energy and environment. He has published widely on environmental policy, environmental modeling, and risk analysis, including thirteen books and over 250 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. Dr. Linkov has organized more than twenty national and international conferences and continuing education workshops, and he is the recipient of prizes such as the 2014 Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) Outstanding Practitioner Award.