Others TCS Secretary-General Amb. OU Boqian Met with Loretta Hieber Girardet, Chief of the Risk Knowledge Branch UNDRR 2022.04.21
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On April 21, 2022, TCS Secretary-General Amb. OU Boqian had a meeting with Ms. Loretta Hieber Girardet, Chief of the Risk Knowledge Branch, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and Mr. Sanjaya Bhatia, Head of the UNDRR Office for Northeast Asia (ONEA) and Global Education and Training Institute (GETI). TCS Deputy Secretary-General SAKATA Natsuko was also in attendance. 

SG OU extended her gratitude for the visit of the UNDRR delegation and their long-standing partnership with the TCS, including co-hosting seminars and training, such as Inter-Regional Dialogue 2021: Application of Cutting Edge Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction in China, Japan and Korea* on the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, October 13, 2021, and jointly publishing a specialized book on the technological application for disaster risk reduction** last year. Introducing the TCS’s wide range of activities and focuses, such as economic cooperation, aging societies, climate change, and people-to-people exchanges, SG OU emphasized the importance of collectively preparing for and addressing the threats to human security like increasing and intensifying natural disasters in the region and appreciated the role of the UNDRR in this regard. She expressed her happiness in participating in the upcoming Disaster Resilience Leaders Forum in September 2022 for delivering the opening remarks and shared a plan to visit the UNDRR office in Incheon around July. 

* More information about the event can be obtained from https://tcsdrr.org/ 
** The booklet “Trilateral Best Practices: Application of Technology for Reducing Disaster Risks in China, Japan and Korea” can be downloaded from https://tcs-asia.org/data/etcData/PUB_1632720421.pdf

Ms. Girardet expressed her appreciation for the tremendous cooperation that has taken place in the multiple forms between the TCS and the UNDRR to promote the awareness and understanding of disaster management among the general public as well as government officials in Northeast Asia. Ms. Girardet, expecting that CJK best practices on climate-related disaster risk reduction should further be shared and adapted among other countries, showed a strong interest in exploring further collaboration with the TCS. 


▲Group photo (From left to right) Mr. Sanjaya Bhatia, TCS DSG SAKATA Natsuko, Ms. Loretta Hieber Girardet, TCS SG OU Boqian, Ms. Sarah Wade-Apicella, TCS Director LI Guanyu

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