Marie-Christine Therrien is a full professor of management at the Ecole nationale d’administration publique and Director of Cité-ID LivingLab Urban resilience governance. Her research interests are in resilience governance, complex organizations and crisis management. Her research focuses on the issues of coordination of networks, analysis of organizational failures, knowledge transfer, organizational resilience and crisis management. She has trained and supervised more than 20 doctoral and master's students through her research.  In addition to her academic experience Dr. Therrien worked for agencies like the City of Montreal’s Resilience Center, Science Applications International Corporation, the Quebec Government and the Canadian Red Cross, which enabled her to develop a strong network of partners in the public and private sectors. Through this work, she helped successfully the City of Montreal in their demand for joining the program of 100 resilient cities of the Rockefeller Foundation. She carried out several interventions and evaluation mandates during her career such as the Spring 2017 floods in Quebec.  Also she worked as an analyst for the public Commission following the Quebec Ice storm in 1998.  She also worked with the Public health department of the Ministry of Health to evaluate their intervention following the influenza A (H1N1) pandemic.  She has published articles in the Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses, Jour­nal of Health Orga­ni­za­tion and Mana­ge­ment, Environmental Science and Policy, International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management, etc. She is the author of many articles and book chapters on resilience and crisis management governance. She is Editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Emergency Management and co-associate editor of the editorial line ‘New Resilience Challenges’ of the Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management.