Katja Samuel

Dr Katja Samuel is the founding Director of Global Security and Disaster Management Ltd (GSDM). She has 27 years of experience gained through military service, legal practice, and an academic career. As an international lawyer she specialises in security (especially counter-terrorism), disaster risk management, and resilience planning, notably their growing interconnectedness in the context of novel and emerging technology. GSDM is developing innovative approaches to man-made and technological risk, including through the more dynamic utilisation of legal tools, aimed at preventing and/or mitigating potential impacts attributable to catastrophic disasters. Currently, Katja is engaged by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime on a counter-terrorism related project, and is collaborating with the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction on aspects of technological risk.