GHI’s  staff is comprised of experienced professionals with diverse backgrounds, including earthquake science, engineering, medicine, law, communications, finance and international development. 

Heidi Stenner is a GeoHazards International (GHI) Project Manager and a geologist with 27 years of experience investigating geologic hazards and collaborating with decision-makers and communities to increase resiliency. She recently led a multi-year USAID-funded program to improve the risk management community’s understanding of how climate change can amplify or compound earthquake, volcano, landslide, and other hazards. While at GHI, Heidi has managed a variety of projects, such as developing earthquake-protective desks for schoolchildren in Nepal; and empowering young people in Haiti to increase their own and their community’s resilience to earthquakes, tsunami, and other coastal hazards. Other projects include landslide investigations in India and Nepal, and advisory services for disaster management policies and plans in Bhutan. Prior to GHI, Heidi was a researcher with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS); contracted to the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to support emergency preparedness; managed an interactive, public earthquake exhibit; and volunteered extensively with the American Red Cross and other agencies. In addition to more recent work in South Asia, she has investigated recent earthquake ground rupture, landslides, and liquefaction in China, Mexico, Turkey, and the USA; and paleo-earthquakes in Mexico, Argentina, Mongolia, and several states in the USA.