What exactly does a chief resilience officer do? Bringing stakeholders together to address the stresses and crises faced by our cities

The Resilient Melbourne team looks for creative ways to build networks and tackle big problems that would otherwise fall through the cracks. 

Many of the challenges facing cities in the 21st century are complex, cross-cutting and difficult to control.

Take Melbourne, for example: a city of five million, spanning 32 local governments and 10,000 square kilometres.

Addressing chronic stresses like congestion, housing affordability, and increasing urban heat requires different stakeholders agreeing on what the problem is and how to tackle it — and even then many of the levers are out of their control.