Keith Porter
Dr. Porter helps solve disaster risk problems. He leads WAFAR’s Climate Resilient Infrastructure and Buildings project, which seeks new interdisciplinary methods to make Canada and the United States more resilient to climate disasters. Dr. Porter has 35 years of professional and research experience in construction contracting, structural design, performance-based engineering, and catastrophe risk management. He pioneered second-generation performance-based earthquake engineering. He led Natural Hazard Mitigation Saves, the most exhaustive benefit-cost analysis of natural hazard mitigation ever. He helped the US Geological Survey to develop the ShakeOut, ARkStorm, HayWired, and other disaster planning scenarios. He currently serves as chief engineer at Western University’s Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction. He holds adjunct research professorships in civil engineering at Western University and the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Porter got his education from UC Davis, UC Berkeley, and Stanford University. For more information, see
www.iclr.org/about-us/.
