In the first episode of the Tomorrow's Cities Podcast dedicated to the International Day for Disaster Reduction we talked with Professor Mark Pelling, Professor of Risk and Disaster Reduction and Tomorrow’s Cities Director, Thaísa Comelli, Social Sciences Lead in Tomorrow’s Cities and Postdoctoral Research Associate both from the Institute of Risk and Disaster Reduction at University College London, and Tanvi Deshpande, Research Fellow and London Scholl of Economics and Political Science. In our conversation we explored how Tomorrow’s Cities Hub is working actively across several cities in the Global South to foster inclusive disaster risk reduction.