Stage Setting: From Risk to Resilience: Risk-Informed Pathways for Infrastructure Resilience
The session will focus on the need for conducive policy ecosystem, integration of risk and resilience metrics, and mainstreaming systemic resilience approaches including nature-based infrastructure solutions, in defining risk-informed pathways for achieving people-centered and inclusive infrastructure resilience. CDRI’s Biennial Report on Global Infrastructure Resilience will inform the deliberations on the relevance of understanding the resilience dividend in providing the economic imperative for investing in infrastructure resilience.
- Dr. Stephane Hallegate, Senior Climate Adviser, The World Bank (Moderator)
- Mr. Amit Prothi, DG-CDRI (Presenter)
- Mr. Eric Letvin, Deputy Assistant Administrator (Mitigation), FEMA
- Dr. Kit Miyamoto, CEO & Humanitarian Coordinator, Miyamoto International
- Ms. Christina Cassotis, CEO, Pittsburgh International Airport
- Mr. Glenn Dolcemascolo, Director of Programs, Huairou Commission
- Ms. Karen Bennett, Consultant, United States Forest Service (USFS)
- Mr. Rory Linehan, Director of Engagement, Global Infrastructure Hub (GIH)
- H.E. Max Puig, Executive Vice President of the NCCDM, Dominican Republic
- Ms. Victoria Salinas, Senior Official Performing the Duties of Deputy Administrator, FEMA