IRDR Annual Conference 2023 – Risk Without Borders

What impact do borders – physical and metaphorical – mean for risk researchers and practitioners? The 13th IRDR Annual Conference will examine the definition of borders from multiple perspectives and how to overcome the challenges they pose.

This event is free.

Reducing disaster risk and the impact of humanitarian crises has many difficulties. One such challenge is working across, along or through borders, both physical and metaphorical, and overcoming the barriers these can impose. The 13th IRDR Annual Conference will examine the challenges and possible solutions that risk researchers and practitioners face when assessing, managing and reducing risk across different borders from multiple perspectives including economic and political formal and informal borders considering data, communication, collaboration, and diplomacy.

In addition to lively panel discussions, we will also welcome Professor Stefan Dercon from the Blavatkin School of Government, Oxford and former Chief Economist of DFID to give the keynote speech and Judge Mykola Gnatovskyy, European Court of Human Rights, in conversation with our own Dr Yulia Ioffe. 

The conference will be followed by a drinks reception and PhD research exhibition.

Location: Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre and Roberts Foyer Roberts Engineering Building Malet Place, off Torrington Place London WC1E 7JE United Kingdom