From the 1st of October 2014 Johan Bergström is the new director of Centre for Societal Resilience. Johan Bergström, who succeeds Per Pecker, has a broad interest in research and education focusing on resilience, risk and safety. Johan's research currently focuses on the notion of Societal Resilience as a discursive object asking how and why it is currently getting such momentum in public policy and research. Johan is also the director of the Lund University MSc. Programme in Human Factors & Systems Safety, dealing more with the safety sciences in relation to high-risk organisations. As the director for the Centre for Societal Resilience Johan will focus on building the centre as a platform for interdisciplinary research and collaboration within Lund University, as well as with public and private stakeholders.