The disruptions and shocks from the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted most normal activities across societies. This book captures some of those disruptions and provides insights and guidance of how societies, governments, businesses and people dealt with such major disruption, how we can manage the slow transition out of the pandemic situation back to a ‘new norm’ and importantly how we can prepare for future pandemics. The book has contributions from a distinguished set of multidisciplinary experts from across academia, business and practitioners at the forefront of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.