Understanding Risk Global Forum 2022

Ksenia Chmutina, Reader in Sustainable and Resilient Urbanism at the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University

Dr Ksenia Chmutina is a Reader in Sustainable and Resilient Urbanism at the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University. Ksenia’s research focusses on the processes of urban disaster risk creation and systemic implications of sustainability and resilience in the context of neoliberalism. She uses her work to draw attention to the fact that disasters are not natural.

Ksenia has conducted research in the UK, India, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, China, and the Caribbean, working with policymakers, non-governmental organisations, industry, and marginalised communities. A core part of her activities is science communication: Ksenia is a co-host of a popular podcast ‘Disasters: Deconstructed’.