Diana Rubiano Vargas, civil engineer with a degree in geotechnical engineering from the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. I worked for several years in the Colombian Geological Service where I was deputy director of the Geoenvironmental Threats area. Subsequently, he was in charge of the Emergency Prevention and Attention Department of the Mayor’s Office
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China Earthquake Administration, China KEYNOTE SPEAKER and Head of the Civil Engineering Department at the Institute for Disaster Prevention, in the Chinese Administration of Earthquakes. He has a master’s and doctoral degree in structural engineering from the Institute of Mechanical Engineering. Since 2002, he has been a member of the United Nations Disaster Assessment and
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Ivan Bartolini is a specialist in transfer of competence of the Construction Group of the Swiss Cooperation. Economist (Ph D. University of Montreal, Canada), specializes in humanitarian work through the International Red Cross in protection and conflict management missions in Colombia, Guinea Conakry and India. Based on this experience, he develops a project of anthropological
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Geologist Specialist in risk and disaster prevention. International consultant, with more than 20 years of experience in risk management, management of environmental projects and risk management and post-disaster reconstruction. Has extensive experience in post-disaster reconstruction processes and incorporation of the risk component in environmental and territorial planning instruments and the application of local risk management
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Professor at the Department of Urban Systems of Environment, in the School of Engineering at the Chiba University. His research areas include: urban infrastructure system; seismic engineering; remote sensors and GIS; safety and structural reliability; mitigation of urban disasters. He obtained his master’s and doctorate degrees at the University of Tokyo. Author of numerous publications
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Professor of International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) and Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan. His research area consists of numerical modeling of tsunami propagation and inundation, tsunami damage estimation and alert systems, and fusion of sensing and simulation.
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Sergio Alcocer is a researcher at the Engineering Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is the Founder and President of Mexico Exponencial, a strategic think tank for the development of policies and strategies on the incorporation of exponential technologies in Mexico. He was Under Secretary of Energy Planning and Technological Development
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Agriculture Engineer (Córdoba-Argentina 1996) and International Master in Rural and Local Development (Madrid – Spain 2006) with 22 years of experience. He works more than 16 years in the World Food Programme – WFP of the United Nations in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. He is currently a National Program Policy Officer, a specialist in risk
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Professor of the Civil Engineering Department, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, of the University of Chile. He is a civil engineer trained at the University of Chile, with master’s and doctorate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Author of numerous technical publications in prestigious international journals.
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Tenured professor at the Urban Planning School of the University of Montreal. She is a member of the I-Rec Network – Information and Research for Reconstruction; a member of the French Association for the Prevention of Natural Disasters (AFPCN); a member of the Canadian Risk and Hazard Network (CRHNet). She holds a PhD from the
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