Andrew Gissing
Chief Executive Officer
Natural Hazards Research Australia
About
Andrew Gissing is the Chief Executive Officer of Natural Hazards Research Australia.
He was previously the General Manager of Risk Frontiers, the Deputy Chief Officer and Director of Emergency Management and Communication with the Victoria State Emergency Service, and the Director of Enterprise Risk Management at the NSW Department of Family and Community Services.
News and views
| Date |
Title |
Key Topics |
| 26 March 2024 |
Research interest high at Parliament |
Emergency management,
Resilience |
| 20 February 2024 |
Meeting the needs of a challenging year |
|
| 29 January 2024 |
Better warnings to ensure action |
|
| 11 December 2023 |
Knowledge and insights delivered by research, with more to come in 2024 |
Communication,
Fire severity,
Resilience,
Volunteering |
| 19 October 2023 |
From summits to solutions |
Climate change,
Infrastructure,
Policy,
Resilience,
Risk analysis,
Risk management,
Severe weather,
Vulnerability |
| 24 May 2023 |
Hitting important topics across the country - CEO update |
Communities,
Governance,
Mitigation,
Planning,
Policy |
| 19 April 2023 |
Senate committee told of our research |
Capability,
Emergency management |
| 17 March 2023 |
Gearing up to deliver the research |
Capability,
Policy |
| 18 January 2023 |
20 years ago, vast bushfires razed Canberra’s suburbs – and bushfire science was never the same |
Capability,
Climate change,
Coincident events,
Communication,
Communities,
Decision-making,
Education,
Emergency management,
Engineering,
Environments,
Exposure,
Fire impacts,
Fire severity,
Fire weather,
Firefighter,
Fuel reduction,
Governance,
Indigenous communities,
Infrastructure,
Land management,
Mitigation,
Modelling,
Planning,
Policy,
Preparedness,
Prescribed burning,
Remote sensing,
Response,
Risk management,
Severe weather,
Warnings, |
| 12 December 2022 |
Reflections on the year |
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| 4 November 2022 |
Australia’s tsunami threat may be low but there’s still a risk |
Preparedness,
Risk analysis,
Warnings |
| 27 October 2022 |
Natural Hazards Research Australia launches first Reconciliation Action Plan |
Indigenous communities,
Local knowledge |
| 18 October 2022 |
New flood histories informed by research insights |
Mitigation,
Resilience,
Risk management |
| 15 September 2022 |
Disaster complexities shape future research |
Communities,
Policy |
| 17 May 2022 |
When roads become rivers: forming a Plan B can stop people driving into floodwaters |
Decision-making,
Local knowledge,
Planning,
Preparedness,
Severe weather |
