Language: Italian, English
Expertise: Earthquake Engineering
Email:alessandro.attolico@provinciapotenza.it
Twitter: @alexattolico
Advocate Biography
Alessandro Attolico is the Executive Director of the Territorial Planning and Civil Protection Office at the Province of Potenza (Italy). As a Local Government Executive, he is responsible for orienting the political decision-making processes, drawing up and implementing plans, programs, projects and actions regarding territorial and environmental policies at local level and in regional, national and international contexts.
Alessandro holds a degree in Civil Engineering, an international post-graduate degree in European Construction Engineering and a PhD in Earthquake Engineering. He has significant experience in project management of interregional cooperation and projects on Environment, Energy and Territorial Policies, Disaster Risk Assessment/Reduction, Disaster Management, Climate Change Risk mitigation and adaptation, etc. Recently, he also contributed to the drawing up of the Provincial Territorial Coordination Master Plan (TCP) that outlines the governmental proposals for the development of the provincial territory and for its correct land-use and management. An innovative aspect of the TCP is the structural introduction of the “Disaster Resilience of communities” policy into the urban and land-use government policies.
Over the last few years, as an Advocate for the Making Cities Resilient Campaign, Alessandro has utilized his passions and strengths in many Campaign activities. He also plans to continue using his professional skills in disaster management and territorial planning, as well as taking advantage of his position as a policy-maker and planner that can influence resilience strategy and implementation at both global and local level, calling for the involvement of other decision makers, relevant stake-holders, communities and major groups. He hopes to make the Province of Potenza an experimental testing platform for the Sendai Framework and to be engaged in peer-review processes of the Campaign.
Campaign Activities
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Participating in the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction, the 5th International Disaster and Risk Conference (IDRC), by the Global Risk Forum in Davos 2014, the 4th International Conference on Building Resilience 4ICBR in Salford Media City UK 2014
- Participating in the Preparatory Committee Meetings of the 3WCDRR, also in behalf of the MCR Campaign Local Authorities, the UNDRR Steering Committee on “Making Cities Resilient” Campaign in Manchester 2014, the overall post-2015 HFA consultation process by the UNDRR
- Supporting the Province of Potenza participation to the 3rd World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, Sendai, Japan, 14-18 March 2015