Strengthening SoCal: Southern California Disaster Risk Reduction Initiative
The USC Bedrosian Center on Governance has joined with prominent private and public agencies to boost Southern California’s sustainability and resiliency in the face of a natural disasters. The result is the SoCal Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Initiative, a cooperative set of recommendations designed by academia and the private sector to prevent or minimize the damage and disruption caused by a major natural disaster.
The joint team’s executive committee, which includes retired USGS seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones as special advisor, present its recommendations to the public in this report.
Executive committee:
Bill Allen – President and CEO, Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation
Matt Bettenhausen – Sr. Vice President and Chief Security Officer, AEG Worldwide
Raphael Bostic – Director, USC Bedrosian Center on Governance
Edward Casey – Partner, Alston and Bird
Donald Daigler – Director of Business Resiliency, Southern California Edison
Andrea Davis – Director of Global Crisis Management, Walt Disney Company
Gail Goldberg – Executive Director, Urban Land Institute-Los Angeles
Hasan Ikhrata* – Executive Director, Southern California Association of Governments
Tom Jacobus – Manager of Business Resiliency Plans and Programs, Southern California Edison
Doane Liu – Deputy Executive Director, Port of Los Angeles
Jason Peery – Seismic Lead, AON Risk Services
Rochelle Silsbee – Government Affairs Manager, SoCalGas
Hon. Greig Smith – Councilman (retired), City of Los Angeles
Christopher Smith* – President, EQC Global
Christopher Terzich – Vice President, Wells Fargo Enterprise Incident Manager
*Project Co-Chair
Special Advisor Dr. Lucy Jones, U.S. Geological Survey
Project Coordinator John Bwarie, Stratiscope
Interested in getting involved?
Email John Bwarie using this link.
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