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Flora is an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics. She is an expert practitioner in community-led recovery post disasters. Flora was part of a suite of practitioners supporting recovery in West London in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire. Flora led the work with communities to bring together material and information to build accounts of the process of recovery from different points of view, collaborating with community members on their own stories of recovery, as a foundation for developing practitioner versions. Flora was embedded with emergency management professionals and policy-makers to improve knowledge exchange between the community affected and those attempting to support and manage the event to shape the environment for community-led disaster response and recovery.
Flora has played a crucial role in developing a timeline of the unfolding of knowledge about the contamination of air and soil in the local area which outlines the steps through which, over 22 months, residents’ calls for investigation of potential health-damaging contamination eventually resulted in the commencement of a full scientific investigation.
Lucy is a specialist advisor on recovery planning and a Senior Fellow of the Emergency Planning College (part of the Cabinet Office Civil Contingencies Secretariat). Lucy holds a law degree from the University of Bristol, an MSc in Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management from the University of Leicester and a PhD in Medicine awarded by Lancaster University. Her wider training portfolio includes mass fatalities planning, legal aspects of emergencies, identifying lessons post incident, interoperability, and community resilience in practice. She is also an Affiliate Researcher at the Joint Centre for Disaster Research, Massey University, New Zealand. Lucy has developed contingency plans, training programmes and exercises with a number of organisations including airports and airlines, government bodies, charities, universities and police services. She has also participated in the response to major incidents including aviation disasters, the Bali terrorist attacks, and the operations at Brize Norton during the military campaign in Iraq.
She has a special interest in the care and return of personal effects after disaster, writing and advising internationally on this subject. Her further research interests include the effectiveness of legislation in the field of emergency management and the human aspects of risk management, insurance and business continuity processes. She presents regularly and engagements include presentations to survivors of the New Zealand earthquakes in 2010 and 2011, FEMA, Chinese government representatives, the Metropolitan Police and the American Academy of Forensic Science. She is a member of the Cabinet Office National Risk Assessment Behavioural Science Expert Group.
Chief Innovation Officer Edward is a co-founder of Atom Bank. In addition to a number of consultancy and research roles in the UK and the Middle East, Edward’s CV includes spells with the United Nations and HM Treasury, the latter including secondments at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and in the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit. Immediately before joining Atom Edward was CEO of the North East Local Enterprise Partnership. With direct experience of central banking in the UK and Iraq, and a leading role in the stabilisation and resolution of Northern Rock. Edward has a PhD in isotope science, an LLM in public international law. Edward was a Professor in Practice from 1 May 2018 to 30 April 2021.
Bridget’s interests include risk and risk management, infrastructure and its funding, public and private sector co-operation, planning policy and corporate management. She has published on these interests in academic outlets and through policy briefings. Bridget has a non-executive portfolio with public and private organizations and has a wealth of experience across a number of sectors, from fintech start-ups to cement manufacturing and is currently Chair of the Atom Bank Board. She has given evidence both in competition cases and to planning inquiries, and is expert in providing and preparing such economic evidence.
She has considerable experience in policy development and implementation, has advised the UK’s Treasury and is also Commissioner for the independent National Infrastructure Commission which has included leading on its project on Northern connectivity and the East West corridor from Cambridge to Oxford. Bridget was a Professor in Practice from 1 May 2018 to 30 April 2021.
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