| Dr. Dennis S. Mileti is Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado at Boulder where he served as Chair of the Department of Sociology and as Director of the Natural Hazards Center—the United State’s clearinghouse for social and behavioral science research on hazards and disasters.
Dennis is author of over 100 publications. Most are on the societal aspects of hazards and disasters. His book, Disasters by Design, summarized our nation’s effort to assess knowledge and national policy for hazards and disasters. He was the founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the all-hazards, all-disciplines journal the Natural Hazards Review.
He has served on a variety of advisory boards including: Chair of the Committee on Natural Disasters in the National Research Council; Chair of the Board of Visitors to FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute; the Board of Directors of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute; the Advisory Board to the U.S. Geological Survey’s Research Program on Earthquakes and Volcanoes; the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Expert Advisory Panel for the study of evacuation of the World Trade Center towers on September 11th; and the American Society of Civil Engineers Expert Panel overseeing the Army Corps of Engineers assessment of the New Orleans levee failures and consequences—he was given the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal in 2007 for that work by the Department of the Army.
Dennis is currently a member of: START Center at the University of Maryland; California Seismic Safety Commission, and he serves on the Board of Directors of the Southern California Earthquake Center.
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