Dr. Gianluca Pescaroli
Associate Professor - Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction
UCL
Dr. Gianluca Pescaroli is Associate Professor in Operational Continuity and Organisational Resilience at University College London (UCL), and Senior Risk Advisor at the Centre for Risk Studies, Cambridge University. His research investigates how to build and improve the continuity of operations during disruptive events, how to minimise their impacts, and how to increase the resilience of the public and private sectors. This includes managing complex challenges such as cascading risks, critical infrastructure failures, systemic and compound dynamics. Gianluca’s work is impact -oriented, aiming to bridge academia and practice. In 2016, he co-founded the Research Group on Cascading Disasters at UCL. Since then, he contributed to strategic documents for the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, European Commission and local authorities such as London Resilience. Gianluca is now scientific lead of the new project “AGnostic risk management for high Impact Low probability events (AGILE), with 15 international partners financed by the Horizon Europe programme. He is partners in other projects financed by the European Space Agency, ESRC, NERC, and Lloyd’s Register Foundation. In 2024, Gianluca became the scientific advisor to the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction’s Network of Corporate Chief Resilience Officers (CCRO)
SPECIAL SESSION: EO AND AI FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
Panellists discuss EO and AI impact on disaster risk reduction, focusing on case studies including the most recent Los Angeles wildfires
