Prof. Atula Abeysekara, professor of practice in risk management at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, delivered a guest lecture on “Managing Black Swans”, to final-year undergraduate students of the Department of Civil Engineering. The session was held at the Civil Engineering Auditorium on 2nd May 2024. Prof. Atula started the lecture by providing a brief introduction to Imperial College, his career and the world in 2050. Then, he continued with the lecture by describing the construction journey and risk management process and extreme risks, what black swans are and why they are difficult to predict, how to manage black swans, and advice to the UK government on managing them. This guest lecture was organized by the Civil Engineering Society (CES) as a part of the “Civil Engineering Career Fair 2024”.
