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Urban Resilience: 'We Need To Decide How To Deal With Disruptions'
ZURICH, September 13, 2022 — In an event organized by Asia Society Switzerland with Swiss Re, a panel of experts discusses what major challenges Asia’s fast-growing cities are facing, and how cities can build resilience to deal with slow-moving stresses. The participants include Jonas Jörin, co-director of the future resilient systems program at ETH Singapore Center; Supachai Tantikom, first chief resilience officer of Bangkok metropolitan government; Debjani Bhattacharyya, chair for the history of the Anthropocene at the University of Zurich; Gerry Lemcke, head of product management of public sector solutions at Swiss Re; and Jan Bieser, senior researcher at Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute. Asia Society Switzerland Executive Director Nico Luchsinger moderates. (2 hr., 9 min.)