Séverine Chapus starts her career in Bouygues Construction. After seven years, she decides to work for the public sector, first within the national agency of urban regeneration and then, for the French government, to lead innovative investment programs for Cities. She joins after Dassault Systèmes as Vice-president of Cities & Territories to develop internationally an offer of digital urban management. She also co-founded the startup Barges & Berges to promote a new way to value and experience rivers within cities. Séverine Chapus joins BNP Paribas Real Estate in 2018 as Head of Development Major Mixed-Use Projects, with an ambition to foster greater resilience and higher quality of life in urban projects, through strong collaboration between the public and private sector. Academics / diploma: HEC Paris. IHEDATE auditrice

Piet Dircke is the Arcadis Global Leader for Resilience & Water Management. He has 35 years of working experience on five continents in water management, urban resilience, flood protection, waterfront development and climate change adaptation. He is worldwide recognized as thought leader in these fields. From 2015 - 2019 he was Platform Partner with 100 Resilient Cities, pioneered by Rockefeller Foundation and worked with Chief Resilience Officers of cities around the globe on flood resilience, urban climate adaptation and resilience financing strategies. In the Netherlands Piet was Professor in Urban Water Management at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences from 2007 - 2014. From 2009 - 2013 he was the Chairman of Flood Control 2015, a 22 M€ public-private research program on smart flood control systems. Since Hurricane Katrina he is an influential Dutch representative in knowledge exchange on urban climate resilience and coastal resilience with the USA, and worked on urban resilience projects in New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Houston, Pittsburgh, Norfolk, Charleston, Miami and Honolulu. In Asia he was active in Jakarta, Semarang, Singapore, Hongkong, Shanghai, Bangkok, Vietnam, Myanmar and Bangladesh.

After graduating in Physical Geography from the University of Utrecht, Arnoud started his career with several ambitious trainee posts and jobs abroad. As deputy head of the Rotterdam Water Management Department, he was responsible for it’s urban water management and the Waterplan2Rotterdam. In 2008, he was appointed Manager of the Rotterdam Climate Proof program and led the city towards a leading position on innovative urban water management and climate resilience. Which resulted in an European Peer City status, a C40 Innovation Award and the EU-Icapital award. Arnoud is first editor of book “Resilient Cities and Climate Adaptation Strategies” (2014). He also joined the Steering Committee of the international conference “Deltas in times of Climate Change 2014” and became member of the AIWW advisory board (Amsterdam International Water Week). Arnoud was responsible for Rotterdam’s first Resilience Strategy (2016), became member of the advisory board of the 4TU Centre for Resilient Engineering and he joined the Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA) as affiliate Cities Expert (2018). In 2019 he hosted the Global Urban Resilience Summit in Rotterdam. Recently he joined the interim Global Steering Committee at the Global Resilient Cities Network. In 2020 he became (part time) lead Cities at the GCA.

Mr Khoo Teng Chye is the Executive Director of the Centre for Liveable Cities, Ministry of National Development, Singapore. He was formerly the Chief Executive of PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency, President and Chief Executive Officer of Mapletree Investments and Managing Director (Special Projects) of Temasek Holdings, Chief Executive Officer/Group President of PSA Corporation and Chief Executive Officer/Chief Planner at the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore. He sits on the Boards of Temasek Foundation Connects, National University Health System, and the Institute of Real Estate Studies and Tropical Marine Science Institute of the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is Senior Fellow of the URA Academy, Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Former Chairman of Urban Land Institute (ULI), Singapore, and a ULI Global Governing Trustee. He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal in 2018, Public Administration (Gold) in 1996 and the Public Administration (Silver) in 1987 by the Singapore government.

Cities face many challenges. Not only will the current COVID-19 crisis change the way we plan and operate cities but, at the same time, cities will need to adapt to climate change. As we look toward the future, we require cities with greater resilience, higher quality of life, determined leadership, and to achieve all this stronger collaboration between the public and private sector. During this webinar, city leaders and city resilience experts will discuss and share best practices in city resilience strategies, how the current crisis will impact cities into the future, how they can adapt and what measures might need to be put into place. This timely webinar will also give the audience a chance to ask key questions during a panel discussion to further develop the topic