PEER Annual Meeting 2023 Speaker Bio: Charles Scawthorn is internationally recognized as an authority for the analysis and mitigation of natural and technological hazards. He retired in 2008 as Professor and head of the Earthquake Disaster Prevention Systems Laboratory, Kyoto University (Japan), and is now Visiting Researcher at PEER, Univ. California at Berkeley. He is an Advisor to the Global Facility for Disaster Recovery and Reduction of the World Bank and consults frequently to the Asian Development Bank. As President of SPA Risk LLC, he consults to the global insurance industry, local/state/federal agencies and Global 1000 corporations. Dr. Scawthorn is a graduate of the Cooper Union, holds an M.S.C.E. degree from Lehigh University and received his D.Eng. from Kyoto University. Updated July, 2023.
