Rastislav Vrbensky

Rastislav Vrbensky

Rastislav Vrbensky is the manager of the U.N. Development Program regional hub for Europe and the CIS in Istanbul. Prior to this, he has been assigned in Montenegro, Tajikistan, Serbia and in his home country Slovakia. Before joining UNDP, he worked for the Slovak government and an international NGO. He holds a doctorate in development studies from Comenius University in Bratislava.

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Why it's time for a global agreement on preventing technological disasters

Why it's time for a global agreement on preventing technological disasters

almost 11 years ago // World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

To date, there is no global agreement in place to prevent technological disasters. Now is the time to address this, as world leaders prepare to adopt a new global disaster risk reduction framework in Sendai, Japan. A joint op-ed from UNDP's Cihan Sultanoglu and Rastislav Vrbensky.