Preventing Disasters, Protecting Lives: Resilience with Integrity
Dr Katja Samuel

Chief Executive Officer
Dr Katja Samuel
Katja is the founder and CEO of GSDM. She is a professional, strategically minded, resourceful and pragmatic lawyer with practitioner, military, operational, commercial, academic and civil society experience gained over more than 27 years. She has operated in many different national and international contexts, including at the governmental and intergovernmental levels, most recently with the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).
An international lawyer by background, Katja is unusual in having deep subject-matter expertise in both security (especially counter-terrorism) and disaster risk reduction / management. Such dual expertise is of particular relevance to GSDM’s focus on man-made and technological risk which often engages both paradigms. This enables Katja to identify potentially significant gaps and vulnerabilities which are not always identified or addressed by more conventional resilience planning approaches. Her current activities include as an advisor with the Resilience Advisors Network and as a consultant with Right Stone Consulting on organisational resilience.
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We have a dedicated team of internationally recognised, multi-disciplinary experts. They have extensive operational, technical, research and analytical expertise across the fields of resilience, security and disaster risk.
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Global Security & Disaster Management Ltd
Stag Gates House,
63-64 The Avenue,
Southampton, SO17 1XS
England, UK
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