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Emma Brown

Emma is a Technical Director and a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, with 30 years’ international experience in forecasting and emergency warning. Emma works on all four pillars of early warning systems, from risk awareness, through monitoring, forecasting and warning provision, to emergency preparedness and response. In addition to modelling catchments and implementing operational forecasting and warning systems, her experience covers telemetry network design, early warning system design, and technical assurance for national governments. Emma’s experience also covers research into related topics, including multi-risk impact-based forecasting and warning, governance of early warning systems, forecast accuracy assessment, and tools for probabilistic flood risk forecasting. Emma has worked in over 20 countries during her career to date.

Multi-Risk Forecasting: Operational Reality or Scientific Ambition?

, , , and April 27, 2026
Reflections from a workshop on multi-risk impact-based forecasting and warning systems for weather-related hazards.
A collective moment from the Glasgow workshop (25 March 2026), where researchers and operational experts came together to explore the challenges of multi-risk impact-based forecasting and warning systems. Image credit (Chris White)

  Reflections from a workshop on multi-risk impact-based forecasting and warning systems for weather-related hazards.   With mounting evidence that hazards rarely occur in isolation, the question is no longer whether multi-risk impact-based forecasting and warning systems are needed, but how to build them [1]. Yet, moving beyond single-hazard thinking towards genuinely multi-hazard and t ...[Read More]