On 22 February 2021, the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI ) held a roundtable discussion with ambassadors and officials of 11 countries to discuss issues around disaster resilient infrastructure and the importance of global partnerships, the urgency of knowledge sharing & its application in the real world.

Coalition Co-Chairs, Mr. Alex Ellis, Ambassador of United Kingdom to India and Mr. Kamal Kishore, Member, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), India, presented at the roundtable. Senior officials from Brazil, Comoros, Egypt, the European Union, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Republic of Korea, Russia and Vietnam participated.