Stanford – World Bank – EMI Workshop Creating an Enabling Environment for Investment in Urban Resilience

June 30, 2015

Organizer: Fouad Bendimerad, [email protected]; 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 (B- URP), Fouad Bendimerad, 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

 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 30 June World Bank Workshop on Urban Resilience

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?

 Mary Lou Zoback (; 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)

 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

 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: Title: Andrea Zanon Resilience Regional Coordinator in Middle East and North Africa (MENA), The World Bank (WB) Axel E. N. Baeumler Senior Infrastructure Economist, WB Ghadeer Ashram Disaster Risk Management Specialist, Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) Mariana Felicio Social Development Specialist, WB Osama Hamad Senior Water Resources Management Specialist, WB Tafadzwa Irvine Dube Operations Analyst, GFDRR Yaprak Servi Disaster Risk Management Specialist, WB Nahida Sinno Private Sector Development Specialist, WB Alejandra Linares Operations Analyst, MENA DRM Team, WB Ziad Nakat Senior Transport Specialist, WB Sateh Chafic El-Arnaout Program Leader, Africa Country Director Groups, WB Edward Anderson Senior ICT Policy Specialist Ziane Said Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the Ministry of Interior, Moroccan Government Olivier Lavinal 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 , 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 cost- effective, sustainable water supply and sanitation (W&S) service delivery in developing countries. Current research projects focus on decentralized, private- sector 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 Vice- President 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 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 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 . 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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