Keynote Speeches/Conference Speeches/ Invited Lectures

Rescue at Sea – a study of the Mediterranean, Emergency Medicine Conference, November
2018, Intercontinental Hotel, Abu Dhabi
Search and Rescue (SAR). Is the increase in disaster occurrence driving a need for more
SAR? Emergency Medicine Conference, 24 November 2017, Intercontinental Hotel, Abu
Dhabi.
Conference Speaker: Disasters: Are they getting bigger? The 1st International Conference
on Mega Disasters 18 November 2016 at the Kintex Exhibition Centre, Ilsan, South Korea.
Conference Speaker: Climate Change: Implications for the Built Environment, 2015, The 1st
international Conference on Sustainable Buildings and Structures & The 2nd Low Carbon
Construction Industrialization Forum 30th-31st October 2015 @Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool
University, Suzhou
Invited Public Lecture 2015 Climate Change and Governance Zhejiang Sci-Tech University,
27 October 2015. Hangzhou, China
Conference Speaker: Climate Change: Implications for the Built Environment, China-UK Low Carbon Construction Industrialised Forum 2014, BRE, Watford, UK 12th December 2014
Conference Speaker: Dealing with Disasters International Conference (DwD 2013) / 4th
Conference of the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM 2013), Newcastle
Conference Speaker: International Workshop on New Perspectives in Environmental and
Disaster
Governance: Local Climate Change Adaptation, the case of South Korea. National
University of Taiwan, Taiwan 14 January 2013
Governance: Local Climate Change Adaptation; the case of South Korea. National
University of Taiwan, Taiwan, 14th January 2013
Conference Speaker: Managing Climate Risks, Korean Institute for Public Administration
(KIPA): International Conference on Conflict Management: From Environmental Challenges
to Environmental Conflicts: New Opportunities for Global Cooperation, Seoul, The Republic
of Korea, 24th July 2012
Conference Speaker: Sustainable Urban Competitiveness and Low Income Residential
Development: Experience from Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 27th June 2012. 10th International Forum on Urban Competitiveness, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 27th to 28th June 2012
24th March 2012: Invited public lecture, Northumbria University; Being Lord Mayor
Keynote Speaker: Promoting Well-Being through building Resilient Communities,
Leadership and Well-Being Conference, Northumbria University 6th March 2012.

Keynote Speaker: Promoting Well-Being through building Resilient Communities,
Leadership and Well-Being Conference, Northumbria University 6th March 2012

Keynote Speaker: Promoting Well-Being through building Resilient Communities,
Leadership and Well-Being Conference, Northumbria University 6th March 2012.
Keynote Speaker: Climate Change and Society, Birzeit University, Occupied Territories of
Palestine, 16th November 2011, Conference: Plugging the Hole: professional Environmental
Education for Sustainable Development, 16-17 November, 2011. Script submitted to the
International Journal of Environmental Studies for publication. Accepted and published 2012.
March 2011: The Economics of Resilience, Climate Change Adaptation Conference, Redcar.
February 2011: Invited lecture series at Yonsei University, Republic of Korea. Topics
covered were disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation – delivered to
postgraduate researchers.
February 2011: Invited lecture hosted by National Emergency Management Agency,
Republic of Korea, Korea Environment Institute and the World Bank on UK Disaster Risk
Reduction.
February 2011: Invited seminar hosted by the Korea Institute of Public Administration on
Sustainability at the Local Level.
September 2011: Conference Chair for the International Conference on Adaptation for Safer
Cities, 5-7 September, Newcastle upon Tyne.
September 2010: Play it again Sam: subversive thoughts on global natural hazards
research, ESRC workshop: Sub-Contracting Risk: Neoliberal Policy Agendas and the
Changing Nature of Flood Risk Management, ESRC Workshop, University of Hull.
September 2010: Climate Change: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
September 2010: Relief Operations, Presentation to IBG, London
March 2010: What is Climate Adaptation? Presentation to Nepal Red Cross, Northumbria
University
January 2010: Environmental Capacity building through Knowledge Transfer Partnerships,
IEMA Knowledge Exchange Conference.
January 2010: Community Resilience, presentation to U3A, Bishop Auckland.
2006, O’Brien, Geoff, Phil O’Keefe, Joanne Rose, and Ben Wisner. “Climate Change and
Disaster Management” Disasters 30(1): 64-80. Parlamentaria de Mexico. 1999. Gaceta
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