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Board of Trustees

GHI’s  Board of Trustees is comprised of experienced professionals with diverse backgrounds, including earthquake science and engineering, architecture, law, finance, and urban planning. Each has longstanding, strong ties in academic, business or government sectors. 

Ibbi Almufti

San Francisco, California

Arup

Pat Arnett

New York, New York

TYLin Group

Veronica Cedillos

Pleasanton, California

Bill Churney

Boston, Massachusetts

Verisk Analytics (Retired)

Bruce Clark

Corona Del Mar, California

The Leighton Group (Retired)

Greg Deierlein

Stanford, California

Stanford University

Katherine Franco

Houston, Texas

Blank Rome LLP

David Friedman (Past Chair)

San Francisco, California

Forell|Elsesser Engineers (Retired)

Ramon Gilsanz

New York, New York

Gilsanz Murray Steficek

Doug Hohbach

Palo Alto, California

Hohbach-Lewin, Inc.

Laurie Johnson

San Rafael, California

Laurie Johnson Consulting | Research

Kenneth A. Kornberg

Menlo Park, California

Kornberg Associates

David Lallemant

Singapore

Nanyang Technological University

John Ochsendorf

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sara Wadia-Fascetti (Chair)

Boston, Massachusetts

Northeastern University

Sylvia Vaquer

San Francisco Bay Area, California

Context Nature

Erik Gregory Straser

Menlo Park, California

ClearSky

James Brune (Emeritus Trustee)

Reno, Nevada

University of Nevada

Brian Tucker (Founder, Special Advisor to the Board)

Palo Alto, California

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