Resilient Cities with Michael Berkowitz

Michael is the founding principal of Resilient Cities Catalyst, a new global nonprofit helping cities and their partners tackle their toughest challenges. He’s a world-leading expert on making cities resilient to everything from natural disasters to terrorism.

Previous roles include Founding President of the 100 Resilient Cities, which as Rockefeller Foundation project which he led from August 2013 until 2019. Other various roles include Deutsche Bank, their Global Head of Operations Risk Management. He also led the efforts addressing the 2009 flu pandemic at Deutsche Bank, and he was the Deputy Commissioner at the Office of Emergency Management in New York City. Unsurprisingly, NYC has called him back for support following Hurricane Ida.