On Tuesday 6th July we will be hosting an IAS Friends and Fellows Coffee Morning, where we will welcome current IAS Residential Fellows Dr Abhilash Panda & Professor Jennifer Whyte.
Coffee mornings are also an opportunity for Loughborough colleagues to come along and discuss with the IAS team, potential applications for funding before submitting. To ensure understanding of, and alignment with, the IAS.
Please feel free to book using the button below, to come along and join us for an informal in-person gathering at International House with coffee and cakes to meet our Fellows, all are welcome.
Dr Abhilash Panda, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Dr Abhilash Panda is Deputy Chief of the Intergovernmental, Interagency and Partnerships Branch at the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), where he leads global initiatives on financing risk prevention, de-risking investment, resilient infrastructure, and recovery aligned with the Build Back Better agenda. He is also the architect of the Network of Corporate Chief Resilience Officers, a pioneering multi-sector alliance on supply chain resilience.
During their IAS Fellowship, Dr Panda will be collaborating with Professor Dilanthi Amaratunga from the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering.
Professor Jennifer Whyte, University of Sydney
Professor Jennifer Whyte studies how futures are made through large-scale organizing, and how digital innovation is transforming these practices. Her empirical work is on large infrastructure projects. A Professor in the School of Project Management at the University of Sydney, Australia, she is also a Professor of Systems Integration at Imperial College London, where she previously held a Royal Academy of Engineering/Laing O’Rourke chair. Her PhD is from Loughborough University (completed 2000).
During their IAS Fellowship, Professor Whyte will be collaborating with Professor Yang Zou from the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, and Professor Jan Godsell, Dean of Loughborough Business School.
Contact and booking details
- Email address
- ias@lboro.ac.uk
- Cost
- Free