From its origins in a remote corner of West Africa, the 2014 Ebola pandemic quickly demanded an unprecedented response to stop a deadly disease in its tracks. As deputy homeland security advisor to former President Barack Obama, Amy Pope was at the heart of the federal government’s mitigation efforts. In this final episode of Season One of Resilient World, Pope details how the White House and President Obama applied lessons learned from responding to Ebola and to the 2015 Zika outbreak, and discusses key.

As Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, Deputy Incident Manager for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and throughout a 30-year Coast Guard career in which he rose to the rank of Vice Admiral, Peter Neffenger has faced the challenges associated with managing complex systems.  In this episode, Neffenger shares stories from these and other experiences, describing his lessons learned on the imperative for societies to build resilience into their systems.

Washington DC’s first chief resilience officer Kevin Bush is confronted daily by a range of major shocks and stresses that threaten a 700,000-person, nearly 70-square mile city that is also the capital of the United States. Bush discusses how to forge a culture of resilience across the city, makes the case for greater investment in resilient infrastructure and practices, and explores how long-term stresses like a high cost of living can reduce the city’s resilience to short-term shocks like flooding.

In his lifetime of public service, Ray Mabus has worn many hats: Navy officer, Congressional staffer, Governor of Mississippi, Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and Secretary of the Navy.

Max Brooks – author of the New York Times bestselling zombie novel World War Z – believes that our society is in denial about the need to prepare for real-life crises. In this episode, Brooks calls for individuals, businesses, and political leaders to cast aside a culture of complacency and to instead think creatively about how we can better meet long-term challenges like pandemics, hurricanes, climate change, and more.

From the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, Admiral Thad Allen’s varied career saw him responding to some of the most challenging crises the United States has faced. Here, the former Commandant of the Coast Guard draws on his lifetime of leadership and disaster management expertise to discuss how to make America more resilient – from entire federal government departments right down to the individual citizen.

Whether as chief of staff to then-FBI Director Robert Mueller, or President Obama’s top homeland security advisor, Lisa Monaco has spent her professional life safeguarding the United States from threats like terrorism, pandemics, and cybersecurity. In this episode, she unpacks how America should respond to the threat of religious radicalism, the ‘nightmare scenario’ of a new strain of influenza crippling our society, and how 200 billion internet-connected devices could wreak cybersecurity havoc in the