Articles
Five years on from Grenfell and the 2017 terror attacks, we must put survivor learnings front and centre.
14 June 2022Thelma Stober is a survivor of the 7/7 London bombings, Deputy Lieutenant for Greater London, and Co-Chair of the Grenfell Memorial Commission. She is also a Trustee of the National… Read more
Civil Contingencies Act Independent Review Round Table
27 May 2022Here is a summary of the roundtable organised by the National Preparedness Commission (NPC) to discuss the report on the independent review of the Civil Contingencies Act and its Supporting… Read more
Government Response to the Report of the Risk Committee
27 April 2022In this article, Rt Hon Lord James Arbuthnot comments on the Government’s response to a report by the Special Select Committee of the House of Lords on Risk Assessment and… Read more
Exploring principles for resilient infrastructure
11 April 2022Professor Liz Varga is Professor of Complex Systems at University College London and a Commissioner of the National Preparedness Commission. Here, Professor Varga offers an overview of her work to develop a set of principles or shared goals for national infrastructure resilience, with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.
London Prepared: A City-Wide Endeavour
22 March 2022This commentary by Lord Toby Harris for the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and is reproduced here with RUSI’s permission. Last summer, Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, asked me… Read more
Resilience of a nation – some personal reflections
16 March 2022Robert Hall is the outgoing Director of Strategy at Resilience First. Here he offers a private view of our reactions to the Ukrainian crisis and its messages for better national… Read more
Geopolitics, corporate governance and ESG
08 March 2022Derek Leatherdale and Hanif Barma from the Risk Coalition identify in this article the key things that any board or risk committee should consider in the context of the complex… Read more
Planning for future risks
01 March 2022Professor Lord Martin Rees OM FRS, Astronomer Royal and co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, looks at why we will face a bumpy ride through coming… Read more
The pandemic goes endemic: A ‘looping’ crisis is changing thinking in crisis management
02 February 2022Julia Graham and Hoe-Yeong Loke are, respectively, CEO and Research Manager at Airmic. They make the case for risk professionals and their organisations to learn and embed lessons in order… Read more
Food for thought
19 December 2021This article by Ed Persson, an Executive Assistant with the National Preparedness Commission, looks at the implications of the National Food Strategy and its relevance for resilience. Earlier this year,… Read more