Katja L H SamuelKatja Samuel is the founding director of Global Security and Disaster Management Limited (GSDM), an innovative consultancy company specialising in the provision of legal and interdisciplinary expertise across the spectrum of security and disaster isses, including their growing inter-connectedness. Currently, she is on organising teams for the European Forum on Disaster Risk Reduction (2018), UN Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (2019), and a co-chair of the American Society of International Law's Disaster Law Interest Group. An award-winning author and researcher, much of her current research focus is on how to better integrate law, as a dynamic tool of disaster risk mitigation, cross-sectorially, especially with science and technology. Read More Read Less