How to Survive a Crisis

In this live talk, Sir David will show how anyone can survive – and even thrive in – crises when using methodologies employed by the British intelligence agencies.

We never know when a crisis might explode. Some ‘sudden impact’ events, like terrorist attacks or natural disasters, blow up out of a clear blue sky. But some crises burn and fester slowly, often with warning signs ignored along the way until, as if from nowhere, the troops storm the palace. But we are rarely powerless.

Using gripping real-world examples from his storied career, including chairing the COBR room in the storm of a crisis, to lessons from historic crises such as Chernobyl, 9/11, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the WannaCry ransomware cyber-attack, Sir David joins us at the Conduit to show what we can do as individuals and societies to increase our resilience in the face of ever-multiplying crises.

This is an unmissable event for anyone interested in the state of our world – and how we might improve it.

Speaker:

Professor Sir David Omand has dedicated his life to helping the nation in the face of crises. ‘One of the most able people to have served in British government since the Second World War’ (TLS), he was the UK’s first Security and Intelligence Coordinator, responsible to the Prime Minister for the national counter-terrorism strategy and “homeland security”; previously, as Director of GCHQ, the nation’s world-leading intelligence, cyber and security agency, he led their mission to keep the UK safe in extraordinarily turbulent times.

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How to Survive a Crisis

How to Survive a Crisis

In this live talk, Sir David will show how anyone can survive – and even thrive in – crises when using methodologies employed by the British intelligence agencies.

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