Stanford – World Bank – EMI
Workshop
Creating an Enabling Environment for Investment in Urban Resilience
Stanford University
June 30, 2015
Organizer: Fouad Bendimerad, fouadb@emi-megacities.org; 408 768 8987
Location:
Stanford, Yang & Yamazaki Energy & Environment (Y2E2) Building - Room 299
Guests:
14 leaders from private sector, government, and The World Bank (Social, Urban, and
Disaster Risk Management teams) [See table at end for complete list]
Goal:
Focus on different approaches to resilient investments and interventions that can
inform World Bank strategic engagements in the Middle East North Africa region.
AGENDA
9:00
Guests arrive at Stanford – Welcome and Introductions
9:10
Opening Remarks – Context of Meeting and World Bank Goals
Andrea Zanon, Resilience Regional Coordinator in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), The
World Bank (WB)
9:15
Review of Agenda
9:20
Urban DRM Master Planning Process: WB-EMI Bangladesh Urban Resilience Project (BURP), Fouad Bendimerad, Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative (EMI), Executive Director
9:45
Q&A - Discussion
Theme/Topical presentations and discussion by Stanford
PowerPoint presentation limited to no more than 8 slides
10:00 – 11:00 Topical Discussion No. 1: What have we learned on urban Resilience? Where
investments are needed
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Greg Deierlein (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford) – Research Agenda in Urban
Resilience at Stanford – A view on the future and how Stanford can work with the World
Bank
Anne Kiremidjian (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford) – Lifeline resilience.
Building the Global Infrastructure
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Other faculty Structural Division CEE Dept.: Kincho Law, Eduardo Miranda, Jack Baker
Discussion 30 min
11:00 – 11:30 Topic 2 How coalitions and partnerships are changing mindsets and building resilience
in the San Francisco Bay Area – Will it work elsewhere?
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Mary Lou Zoback (Geophysics; School of Earth Sciences, Stanford) and Laurie Johnson
(Laurie Johnson Consulting – VIA SKYPE); Stanford Urban Resilience Initiative
Presentation 15 min – Discussion 15 min
11:30 – 12:30 Topic 3: Building with Nature – Increasing Resilience through Ecosystem-Based Solutions
Panel Discussion (60 min)
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Jenny Suckale (Geophysics; School of Earth Sciences, Stanford) – Coastal Vegetation as DRM
Molly Melius (Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford) – Incorporating Ecosystem Services in
Resilience Planning in Coastal California
Anne Siders (PhD Candidate; Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources) –
Integrating Climate Change in Urban Planning
Tracy Mandel (PhD Candidate, Civil and Environmental Engineering) –
12:30 – 13:00 Topic 4: Other topics
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Ram Rajagopal (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford) – Drones and other new
technologies for managing disasters and “building back better”
Jenna Davis (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford) – Economic Development and
Water Infrastructure.
David Lallemant (PhD Candidate; Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford) – Future
risk projections + Nepal re-building efforts
13:00 -14:00
Lunch will be served in the room
Opportunities for WB-Stanford Cooperation – Casual Discussion
2pm
Guests leave Palo Alto
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World Bank Participants (as of 10 June)
Participants:
Andrea Zanon
Axel E. N. Baeumler
Ghadeer Ashram
Mariana Felicio
Osama Hamad
Tafadzwa Irvine Dube
Yaprak Servi
Nahida Sinno
Alejandra Linares
Ziad Nakat
Sateh Chafic El-Arnaout
Edward Anderson
Ziane Said
Olivier Lavinal
Title:
Resilience Regional Coordinator in Middle East and North
Africa (MENA), The World Bank (WB)
Senior Infrastructure Economist, WB
Disaster Risk Management Specialist, Global Facility for
Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)
Social Development Specialist, WB
Senior Water Resources Management Specialist, WB
Operations Analyst, GFDRR
Disaster Risk Management Specialist, WB
Private Sector Development Specialist, WB
Operations Analyst, MENA DRM Team, WB
Senior Transport Specialist, WB
Program Leader, Africa Country Director Groups, WB
Senior ICT Policy Specialist
Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the Ministry of
Interior, Moroccan Government
Special Assistance to the MENA Regional Vice Presidency, WB
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CREATING AN ENABLING ENVIRONMENT FOR INVESTMENT IN URBAN RESILIENCE
Stanford Participants
Fouad Bendimerad, Ph.D., P.E.
Chairman and E.D., Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative (EMI)
Consulting Engineer, San Mateo, CA
Dr. Fouad Bendimerad is an active researcher, practitioner and educator with
focused interest in megacities and urban risk assessment and management. He
is also the initiator of EMI’s Cluster Cities Project, a global network of megacities
officials, researchers, educators, professionals and advocates working together to
reduce urban risk. He directed and completed several innovative urban DRR
projects included urban resilience master plans for Metro Manila, Kathmandu, Amman, Pasig City,
Quezon City, Mumbai, and Dhaka. His current interest revolve along the application of risk parameters
in land use planning and the use of indicators in monitoring and evaluation of urban resilience. He has
advised several international organizations (such as UN-ISDR, UNDP, UN-HABITAT, World Bank, ADB, and
IDB), governments and global corporations. He was Principal Scientist and Vice President at RMS Inc.
He lectured at several universities in the United States, Japan, Germany, and Turkey. He holds Master
and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Stanford University.
Jenna Davis – Higgins-Magid Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the
Environment, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jennifer ("Jenna") Davis' research interests focus on the intersection of economic
development and environmental management, with particular emphasis on costeffective, sustainable water supply and sanitation (W&S) service delivery in
developing countries. Current research projects focus on decentralized, privatesector delivery of W&S services in several countries; sustainable sanitation
solutions for middle- and low-income urban areas; synergies between W&S
planning and economic development strategies (e.g., agricultural productivity); and links between water,
sanitation, and health. She has conducted fieldwork in more than a dozen countries, including most
recently the Philippines, Mozambique, and Bolivia.
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Greg Deierlein – John A. Blume Professor of Civil and Environmental
Engineering
Deierlein's research focuses on improving limit states design of constructed
facilities through the development and application of nonlinear structural
analysis methods and performance-based design criteria. Recent projects
include the development and application of strength and stiffness degrading
models to simulate steel and reinforced concrete structures, seismic design and
behavior of composite steel-concrete buildings, analysis of inelastic torsional-flexural instability of steel
members, and a fracture mechanics investigation of seismically designed welded steel connections.
Laurie Johnson – Principal and Founder, Laurie Johnson Consulting
Laurie has over 25 years of experience in urban planning and disaster-related
consulting, management and research. She has written extensively about land
use and risk, disaster recovery and reconstruction, and the economics of
catastrophes. She has studied many of the world’s major urban disasters,
including the 2012 Hurricane Sandy, 2011 Tohoku Japan, 2010 and 2011
Christchurch NZ, 2010 Chile and 2008 China earthquakes and 2005 Hurricane
Katrina. In 2006, she was a lead author of the recovery plan for the City of New
Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and coauthored the book, Clear as Mud: Planning for the Rebuilding
of New Orleans, published by the American Planning Association in April 2010. She was formerly a VicePresident with Risk Management Solutions (RMS), working with global property and casualty insurers to
manage their exposure to natural catastrophe risk, and a consulting planner with EQE International (now
ABS Consulting) and Spangle Associates.
Anne Kiremidjian – Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Kiremidjian's current research focuses on the design and implementation of
wireless sensor networks for structural damage and health monitoring and the
development of robust algorithms for structural damage diagnosis that can be
embedded in wireless sensing units. She works on structural component and
systems reliability methods; structural damage evaluation models; and regional
damage, loss and casualty estimation methods utilizing geographic information
and database management systems for portfolios of buildings or spatially
distributed lifeline systems assessment with ground motion and structure correlations.
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David Lallemant – PhD Candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering
David holds a bachelor’s degree from MIT (2007), master’s degree from UC.
Berkeley and is pursuing a PhD from Stanford (anticipated 2015). His research
is focused on understanding and quantifying the evolution of extreme risk in
today’s growing cities. He works on modeling and communication of
uncertainty as it relates to disaster risk, and the translation of resilience science
into policy. He has an academic background in earthquake sciences and
engineering, predictive modeling, machine learning, geostatistics and other tools that he uses to
attempt novel and impactful research. He is also a consultant for the World Bank and the Global Facility
for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), with whom he worked in Port-au-Prince, Haiti for two years
following the Jan 2010 earthquake. He is a visiting faculty at the Understanding and Managing Extremes
graduate school in Italy.
Tracy Mandel – PhD Candidate in Civil & Environmental Engineering
Tracy received her B.S. from Cornell (2012) and M.S. from Stanford (2013), and is now
pursuing her PhD in the Bob and Norma Street Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Laboratory at Stanford. Her research focuses on improving our physical
understanding of how near-shore vegetation protects the coast from flooding and
erosion.
Through careful laboratory experimentation, she studies the
hydrodynamics of fluid-vegetation interaction. As a 2015 recipient of a Stanford
Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship (SIGF) and collaborator with the Natural Capital Project, Tracy is
very interested in the intersection of physics with coastal risk management and valuation of ecosystem
services.
Molly Melius – Early Career Law and Policy Fellow, Center for Ocean Solutions
Molly received her BS from Georgetown University and her JD from Stanford Law
School, where she worked extensively in the Environmental Law Clinic. Before
joining the Center team, Molly was an attorney at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
in Nashville, Tennessee in the Real Estate, Environment, and Natural Resources
group. She advised clients on a variety of environmental issues, including water
and air permitting and compliance, chemicals handling and storage, contaminated
property acquisitions and wastewater treatment. Molly’s practice also focused on land use law, including
defending regulatory takings claims on behalf of municipalities and helping private sector clients navigate
the local land use planning process. At the Center for Ocean Solutions, her work focuses on climate change
adaptation.
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Ram Rajagopal – Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ram Rajagopal is an assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at
Stanford University. He leads a laboratory for creating sustainable engineering
systems with renewable energy systems as one of the main focus areas.
Rajagopal received his Ph.D, in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and
M.A. in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley. He has specialized in
creating and deploying large sensing systems, and using the generated data
together with novel statistical algorithms and stochastic control to achieve
sustainable transportation, energy and infrastructure networks. Rajagopal likes to combine empirical
work with careful analysis. In his dissertation work, he created several types of wireless sensors that
measure traffic flow and road pavement conditions.
Anne Siders – PhD Candidate in Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment
and Resources
Siders’ research focuses on governance of disaster risk reduction and climate change
adaptation in coastal communities and megacities, with particular emphasis on
multi-level governance. She combines approaches from hazards geography,
sociology, law, and digital humanities to understand how climate change adaptation
theories are developed and integrated into disaster risk reduction and international
development policy. She holds an A.B. in Human Evolutionary Biology from Harvard
College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Prior to coming to Stanford, Siders served as a Presidential
Management Fellow with the U.S. Navy and Associate Director of the Columbia Law School Center for
Climate Change Law. She is a research fellow with the Earth Systems Governance Program and the Hoover
Institution Arctic Security Initiative and is a member of the leadership team for the Coastal Resilience
Collaborative.
Jenny Suckale – Professor of Geophysics
Before joining Stanford in January 2014, Jenny held a position as Lecturer in
Applied Mathematics and as a Ziff Environmental Fellow at Harvard. She
holds a PhD in Geophysics from MIT and a Master in Public Administration
from the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to joining graduate school, she
worked as a scientific consultant for different international organizations
aiming to reduce the impact of natural and environmental disasters in
vulnerable communities. The goal of Jenny’s research is to advance our basic understanding and
predictive capabilities of complex multi-phase flows that are fundamental to Earth science. She pursues
this goal by developing original computational methods customized for the problem at hand. The
phenomena she explores range from the microscopic to the planetary scale and space a wide variety of
geophysics systems such as volcanoes, glaciers, and magma oceans.
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Mary Lou Zoback – Consulting Professor of Geophysics
Mary Lou Zoback is a seismologist and Consulting Professor in the Geophysics
Department at Stanford University. Her research interests include the
relationship between active faulting, deformation and state of stress in the
earth’s crust, quantifying earthquake likelihood, and characterizing natural
hazard risk. From 2006-2011 she was Vice President for Earthquake Risk
Applications with Risk Management Solutions, a private catastrophe modeling
firm serving the insurance industry.
Dr. Zoback has served on numerous national committees and panels on topics ranging from increasing
the Nation’s resilience to disasters, defining the next generation of Earth observations from space, storage
of high-level radioactive waste, facilitating interdisciplinary research, and science education. In 2012 she
was appointed to the U. S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board by President Obama. In 1995 she was
elected a member of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences. She is a member of the American
Geophysical Union, the Seismological Society of American, and is a past President of the Geological Society
of America. Zoback is also past chair of the Advisory Committee for San Francisco’s Community Action
Plan for Seismic Safety (CAPSS) program. She is currently a member of the National Academies' Resilient
America Roundtable and the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems. In addition Dr. Zoback serves
on the Science Advisory Board of the Global Earthquake Model.
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