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Interview: Sebastien Maire, Chief Resilience Officer, Paris

27 October 2017

by Barbara Szewcow

Barbara Szewcow spoke to Sebastien Maire, Chief Resilience Officer, Paris about the launch of the city's first resilience strategy

What was your role in planning the strategy and what did you find the most challenging?

Both are totally related. A really innovative position within the city government which is the Chief Resilience Officer is a cross-cutting position.

The main role was to take the best of all the policies from the city departments already in place, and to try to articulate them within a vision that touches on the main risks and opportunities that the city is supposed to face in the coming decades. That was my role and, at the same time, that was the most important challenge ...

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