What impact do borders – physical and metaphorical – mean for risk researchers and practitioners? The 13th IRDR Annual Conference will examine the definition of borders from multiple perspectives and how to overcome the challenges they pose. Reducing disaster risk and the impact of humanitarian crises has many difficulties. One such challenge is working across, along or through borders, both physical and metaphorical, and overcoming the barriers these can impose. The 13th IRDR Annual Conference examines the challenges and possible solutions that risk researchers and practitioners face when assessing, managing and reducing risk across different borders from multiple perspectives including economic and political formal and informal borders considering data, communication, collaboration, and diplomacy. Part 3: Ilan Kelman – Disaster Diplomacy For more information on the event and speakers, see the IRDR website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaster-reduction/events/2023/jun/irdr-annual-conference-2023-risk-without-borders