The next Human Progress and Flourishing Workshop is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 7, at 10 a.m. in Beckwith Recital Hall. Noah Dormady is set to present “Business and Economic Resilience in Disasters.”
All members of the NDSU community and the public are invited to attend the free event. After the presentation, food and refreshments will be served in the Challey School of Music Atrium.
Dormady is an award-winning economist and public policy professor at The Ohio State University. He specializes in energy and environmental policy and economics, economic resilience to natural hazards, risk and decision analysis, and applied public policy analysis.
In his presentation, Dormady will discuss business resilience in disasters and the distinction between resilience and mitigation. He will show how decision makers in the public and private sectors can make more informed decisions in the context of disasters and disaster risk.
Dormady’s research evaluates how businesses are affected by disruptions to critical infrastructure that occur in disasters, and what those businesses can do to cost-effectively bounce back. Similarly, he looks at how decision makers of all types respond to disruptions, disasters, government regulations, market designs and policies.
Dormady is a fellow at two U.S. Department of Homeland Security Centers of Excellence: the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute at the University of Illinois and the Center for Risk and the Economic Analysis of Threats and Emergencies at the University of Southern California. He earned his doctorate from the University of Southern California.
The Human Progress and Flourishing Workshop, which is hosted by the Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth, invites internationally-renowned scholars from universities across the country to present their research and engage with the NDSU community.
The series continues every other Friday through Dec. 2.
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