Speaker

2022 - "When the dust settles. Stories of love loss and hope"

Lucy Easthope lives with disaster every day. When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, she’s the one they call.

Lucy is a world-leading authority on recovering from disaster. She has been at the centre of the most seismic events of the last few decades, advising on everything from the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami to the 7/7 bombings, the Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand, the Grenfell fire and the Covid-19 pandemic. In every catastrophe, Lucy is there to pick up the pieces and prepare for the next one. She holds governments to account, helps communities rally together, returns personal possessions to families, and holds the hands of the survivors.

Lucy will be talking at OffGrid about what happens in the aftermath and explores how we pick up and rebuild with strength and perseverance.

She will take us behind the police tape to scenes of destruction and chaos, introducing us not only to victims and their families, but also to the government briefing rooms and bunkers, where confusion and stale biscuits can reign supreme.