As part of its scientific preparations, METRICS is pleased to welcome a team from the second-year Master’s in Risk and Crisis Engineering (IRC), within the Risks and Environment programme at Université Paris Cité. This collaboration forms part of a broader European initiative, with other universities across Europe to be announced in forthcoming METRICS newsletters.
Under the direction of Amel Ben Rhouma (Senior Associate Professor, Director of the second-year IRC Master’s, co-head of the Sustainability & Transitions Graduate School and researcher at CEDAG), four people with particularly complementary experience will work directly on the congress’s key issues.
Paul Pressard has experience notably at Technip. His work focuses in particular on ISO 22301, crisis exercises and the challenges of European sovereignty associated with AI.
Julie Remay brings experience at Naval Group. She works on industrial risks, health, safety and the environment, and devotes her research to business resilience in the face of climate change.
Manuréva Lorraine has experience at CityNove (Galeries Lafayette Group). She works on carbon trajectories, corporate social responsibility reporting and the transformation of property portfolios.
Kamil Kloc brings more than fifteen years of international humanitarian experience (French Red Cross, ICRC and IFRC), notably in the management of major emergencies, Ebola, climate crises and cascading failures of essential infrastructure.
The work will also be supported by Brigadier General Patrick Perrot, who holds a doctorate in artificial intelligence and specialises in AI issues within the French Gendarmerie nationale.
This work is part of a much broader ecosystem already brought together around METRICS. Richard Gordon, Director of the Bournemouth University Disaster Management Centre, brings more than twenty years of experience in disaster management, crisis preparedness and resilience.
Anna Guillaume, representing Chapter Zero France, contributes to discussions on climate governance, risk anticipation and the role of boards of directors in responding to climate change.
METRICS will also draw on figures already involved, such as Dr Barbara Stepnowska, from the Chapter Zero network and a specialist in systemic approaches, human resilience and sustainable transformations, as well as Milena Olszewska-Miszuris, whose work addresses sustainable governance, risk oversight and the responsibilities of boards of directors.
This academic and operational initiative will explore, in particular, extreme heat, domino effects, climate risks, cascading failures, business continuity and the resilience of organisations and territories. These are central to the issues METRICS aims to discuss on 7 and 8 July 2027 in Paris.