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GEM team

Coordination and management

John Schneider – Secretary General
Anselm Smolka – Special Advisor
Paul Henshaw – Director of Technology & Development

Support services

Simone Aliprandi  Contracts and Licensing Advisor
Chiara Pigoli – Secretarial and Administration Officer
Giulia Musolino 
Junior Secretarial Officer

Communications

Jephraim Oro Science Communications & Web Manager

 

External Collaborators
Carlo Piana  Legal Advisor
Raffaella Corona 
Fiscal Advisor

Technical and scientific programs

Hazard team

Marco Pagani  Hazard Coordinator
Julio Garcia – Senior Hazard Scientist 
Valerio Poggi – Senior Hazard Scientist

Richard Styron - Active Faults Specialist

Robin Gee - Hazard Scientist

Kendra Johnson - Hazard Scientist

Physical risk team

Vitor Silva – Risk Coordinator
Catalina Yepes – Physical Risk Engineer
Anirudh Rao 
 Physical Risk Engineer
Desmond Amo-Oduro 
 Physical Risk Engineer

Alejandro Calderon  Physical Risk Engineer

Catarina Costa  Physical Risk Engineer

Jamal Dabbeek  Physical Risk Engineer

Venetia Despotaki  Physical Risk Engineer

Luis Martins  Physical Risk Engineer

Mabe Villar  Physical Risk Engineer

Cigdem Yilmaz  Physical Risk Engineer

Social vulnerability and resilience team

Diana Contreras – Social Vulnerability and Resilience Coordinator
Michael Musori 
Social Vulnerability Scientist

Miguel Toquica  Social Vulnerabilty Scientist

Information technology team

Matteo Nastasi – Senior Software Developer
Michele Simionato – Senior Software Developer
Paolo Tormene – Senior Software Developer 
Daniele Vigano' – System Engineer
Armando Scarpati 
Frontend Developer

Marco Bernasocchi  GIS Specialist

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Governing Board

Public participants

Kelvin Berryman – Ministry of Research Science and Technology (New Zealand)
Marta Calvache – Colombian Geological Survey (Colombia)
Phil Cummins – GeoScience Australia

Mauro Dolce – Italian Civil Protection, Italy (Chairperson)

Hiroyuki Fujiwara – National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, NIED (Japan)
Marie-Louise Gaechter – State Secretariat for Education and Research (Switzerland)
Phil Hill 
– Geological Survey of Canada

Reinhard Huettl – HelmHoltz Centre Potsdam, GFZ (Germany)
Dominik Lang – NORSAR, (Norway)

Gari Mayberry – USAID, USGS (United States)

Ruey-Juin Rau  Taiwan Earthquake Model, TEM (Taiwan)

John Rees – British Geological Survey, BGS (United Kingdom)
Surya Shrestha – National Society for Earthquake Technology, NSET (Nepal)
 

Private participants

Hosam Ali – Factory Mutual Insurance, FM Global

Alexander Allmann – Munich Re

Claudio Boettcher - Zurich Insurance Company (Vice-Chairperson)
Barbara Borzi – EUCENTRE

Gloria Maria Estrada – Suramericana
Matthew Free
– Arup
Jayanta Guin – AIR Worldwide

Toyama Nobuhiko – OYO
Jaesung Park – Nephila
Joerg Steffensen – Hannover Re

 

Associate participants

Edmund Booth – IStructE
Catherine Gamper – OECD
Domenico Giardini – IASPEI
Sudhir Jain – IAEE

Ricardo Mena  – UNISDR
Richard McCarthy – California Seismic Safety Commission, CSSC

Rajib Shaw – IRDR

Alanna Simpson – The World Bank/GFDRR

Jair Torres – UNESCO

Heidi Tremayne – EERI

Science Board

Fabrice Cotton – Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ (Chair)

Reginald DesRoches – GeorgiaTech
Ken Xiansheng Hao – National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, NIED (Vice Chair)

Laurie Johnson – Laurie Johnson Consulting

Alberto Monti – IUSS, Pavia

Emily So – Cambridge University

Pennung Warnitchai  Asian Institute of Technology

Hugo Yepes – Instituto Geofisico Quito / University Joseph Fourier

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