Panel Discussion: Reducing vulnerability, improving capacities - ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment 2013 (Video)
16 Jul 2013 - Panel discussion - Reducing vulnerability, improving capacities and managing risks: an approach for humanitarian and development actors to work together, 2013 Humanitarian Affairs Segment of the Economic and Social Council (Geneva, 15 - 17 July)
Chair: H.E. Ambassador Masood Khan, Vice President of the Economic and Social Council
Moderator: Ms. Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
Panelists
• Government: Major General Muhammad Saeed Aleem, Chairman, Pakistan National Disaster Management Authority
• Civil society: Sukiman Mochtar Pratomo, founder, Lintas Merapi Community Radio and Merapi Circle Information Network (Jalin Merapi) in Central Java, Indonesia
• International organization: Claus Sorensen, Director-General, European Commission Humanitarian Office (ECHO)
• Academia: Dr. Nick Bostrom, Professor, Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University & Director, the Future of Humanity Institute and the Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology within the Oxford Martin School.