a world resilient to earthquakes
- BEta Version - Site under construction -
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
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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
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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
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Social vulnerability and resilience team
Diana Contreras – Social Vulnerability and Resilience Coordinator
Michael Musori – Social Vulnerability Scientist
Miguel Toquica – Social Vulnerabilty Scientist
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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
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