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131 Joseph L. Schofer (Chair) is a professor emeritus of civil and environ- mental engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. At Northwestern, Dr. Schofer served as the chair of his department, the interim dean of the engineering school, and the director of the Infrastructure Tech- nology Institute. His research and teaching interests are in transportation policy plan- ning; analysis, evaluation, and decision support for transportation and other infrastructure systems, including needs for and uses of data and infor- mation; and learning from natural experiments and disruptions. Since 2009, Dr. Schofer has hosted the Infrastructure Show, a monthly podcast on which he interviews infrastructure experts on problems, opportunities, and innovations in civil infrastructure systems. He is a fellow of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, a life member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is actively engaged with the Transportation Research Board (TRB), currently chairing its Standing Committee on Data for Decision Making. In the past he chaired consensus studies for the Committee on Equity Implications of Evolving Transpor- tation Finance Mechanisms, the Committee on Strategies for Improved Passenger and Freight Travel Data, and the Committee on Long-Term Stewardship of Safety Data from the Second Strategic Highway Research Program. He received the 2011 Roy W. Crum Distinguished Service Award from TRB. Dr. Schofer earned his B.E. from Yale University and an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Appendix A Study Committee Biographical Information

132 INVESTING IN TRANSPORTATION RESILIENCE Paolo Bocchini is an associate professor and the director of graduate programs in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Lehigh University. His research focuses on disaster resilient infrastructure systems, probabilistic analysis applied to civil engineering, and compu- tational mechanics. Dr. Bocchini is the author of more than 80 manu- scripts published as book chapters or papers in peer-reviewed international scientific journals and professional conference proceedings. One of his papers on infrastructure resilience is among the most read and cited in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journal of Infrastructure Systems. His research has been supported by the National Science Founda- tion, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Defense, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, and companies in the private sector. Dr. Bocchini serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Structural Engineering and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Italy. He has been elected to the rank of Fellow of the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE and is a member of the Engineering Mechanics Institute, Infrastructure Resilience Division, the International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety, the International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, and the American Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure. Henry V. Burton is an associate professor and the Englekirk Presidential Chair in Structural Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environ- mental Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. His re- search is directed toward understanding and modeling the relationship between the performance of infrastructure systems within the built envi- ronment and the ability of communities to minimize the extent of socio- economic disruption following extreme events. Dr. Burton is a registered structural engineer in the state of California. Prior to obtaining his Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, he spent 6 years in practice at Degenkolb Engineers, where he worked on numerous projects involving design of new buildings and seismic evaluation and retrofit of existing buildings. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) Next Generation of Disaster Researchers Fellowship (2014) and the NSF CAREER Award (2016). Susanne E. DesRoches is the deputy director for infrastructure and energy at the New York City (NYC) Office of Resiliency and Office of Sustain- ability. She leads NYC’s policies and programs focusing on adapting re- gional infrastructure systems to climate change and directs NYC’s efforts to transition to 100% clean electricity by 2040. Ms. DesRoches leads the NYC Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, which works to identify climate risks and coordinate adaptation strategies, and oversees the development and implementation of the NYC Climate Resiliency Design Guidelines.

APPENDIX A 133 She was a chapter author for the Fourth National Climate Assessment and has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology panel on the need for resiliency to prepare America’s transportation infrastructure for climate change. Ms. DesRoches is actively engaged with the Transportation Research Board, currently as a founding member of the newly created Resiliency Section. Ms. DesRoches was previously the chief of resilience and sustainability for the Engineer- ing Department at The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. She holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial design from Pratt Institute and an M.P.A. in environmental science and policy from Columbia University. Ms. DesRoches is on the faculty of Columbia University’s Earth Institute and School of Professional Studies. Alexander Heil is the vice president for research at the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) in New York City. He manages CBC’s research agenda and covers areas ranging from public-sector capital spending to infra- structure operations to government policy impacts. Dr. Heil is an economist with more than 20 years of experience in the private and public sectors. He joined CBC from The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, where he held the position of chief economist for a decade. As the chief economist, Dr. Heil was responsible for developing and managing the agency’s eco- nomic research and analysis agenda, helping to ensure that the agency’s major investment and policy decisions were informed by sound economic principles and analysis. Specifically, he focused on capital prioritization of the agency’s multi-billion-dollar capital plan, economic forecasting of transportation activities and revenues, and cost-benefit analysis of resilience investments. In addition, he played an active role in supporting sustain- ability and environmental analyses throughout the agency. Prior to his appointment at the Port Authority, he was an economist for several engineering and consulting firms. He currently teaches at the Earth Institute and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. Dr. Heil holds a Ph.D. in transportation economics from the University of South Wales in the United Kingdom. He received his bachelor’s degree from Hawai’i Pacific University and his master’s degree in economics from Golden Gate University. Geraldine Knatz (NAE) is a professor of the practice of policy and engi- neering, a joint appointment between the University of Southern California (USC) Price School of Public Policy and the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engi- neering. At the Price School, Dr. Knatz teaches as well as conducts research

134 INVESTING IN TRANSPORTATION RESILIENCE in affiliation with the METRANS Transportation Center. Dr. Knatz served as the executive director of the Port of Los Angeles from 2006 to January 2014. She was the first woman to serve in this role and made a significant impact through the creation and implementation of the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan, an aggressive plan that reduced air emissions by combined port operations of more than 70% over 5 years. She established the Port of Los Angeles as the global leader in port sustainability and facili- tated the introduction of new technology by creating opportunities for test- ing products geared toward customer needs and applications. The Clean Air Action Plan is recognized around the world for its innovation and success. Prior to directing the Port of Los Angeles, she served as the managing direc- tor of the Port of Long Beach, where she was responsible for development activities including the remediation of a California State Superfund site. She is the past chair of the American Association of Port Authorities and the past president of the International Association of Ports and Harbors, along with being the founding chair of the World Ports Climate Initiative. Elise Miller-Hooks holds the Bill and Eleanor Hazel Endowed Chair in Infra- structure Engineering in the Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering at George Mason University. She is also an advisor to the World Bank Group and the founding editor- in-chief of Elsevier’s journal Sustainability Analytics and Modeling. Prior to this, Dr. Miller-Hooks served as the program director of the National Science Foundation’s Civil Infrastructure Systems Program, the lead program officer for the Critical Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Systems and Processes solicitation, and a cognizant program officer on Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation’s Smart and Connected Communities ini- tiative. She served on the faculties of the University of Maryland, The Pennsylvania State University, and Duke University. Her expertise includes disaster planning and response, including urban search and rescue, building and regional evacuation and sheltering, and crowd modeling; multi-hazard civil infrastructure resilience quantification and infrastructure protection investment; stochastic and dynamic network algorithms; mathematical modeling and optimization; transportation systems engineering; intermodal passenger and freight transport; maritime transport and port operations; real-time routing and fleet management; paratransit, ridesharing, and bike- ways; and collaborative and multi-objective decision making. Dr. Miller- Hooks earned a Ph.D. and an M.S. in civil engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and a B.S. in civil engineering from Lafayette College. Rear Admiral Ann C. Phillips (U.S. Navy, retired) is the Special Assistant to the Governor of Virginia for Coastal Adaptation and Protection. Since her appointment in October 2018, she has worked to implement the Governor’s

APPENDIX A 135 intent to protect and adapt Virginia’s coastal region and to prepare Virginia for the current and future impact of sea level rise and climate change, including establishing a sea level rise planning standard for the Common- wealth; creating Virginia’s first Coastal Resilience Master Plan; and improv- ing collaboration, cooperation, and communication among federal, state, and local stakeholders. In this role, Rear Admiral Phillips has also testified before Congress. Recent testimony includes to the House Committee on the Budget, the House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Maritime and U.S. Coast Guard Subcommittee, the House T&I Subcommittee on the Water Resources Development Act, and the Senate Special Commit- tee on the Climate Crisis. Prior to joining the Governor’s administra- tion, she worked to address sea level rise and climate impact on national security at the regional, national, and international level. From 2014 to 2016 she chaired the Infrastructure Working Group for the Old Dominion University–convened Hampton Roads Sea Level Rise Preparedness and Resilience Intergovernmental Pilot Planning Project, focused on building a collaborative, whole of government, and community approach to address the impact of sea level rise across Hampton Roads. Preceding her work on climate impact and sea level rise, Rear Admiral Phillips served nearly 31 years on active duty as a Surface Warfare Officer. She had the honor to commission and command USS Mustin (DDG-89) and to command Destroyer Squadron 28. As a Flag Officer, she served on the Chief of Naval Operations’ staff as the deputy director and then the director of the Surface Warfare Division, and her final Flag command at sea was as Commander, Expeditionary Strike Group TWO, including all of the Amphibious Expedi- tionary Forces on the East Coast of the United States. She holds an M.B.A. from the William & Mary Raymond A. Mason School of Business and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jose E. Ramirez-Marquez is the director of the Enterprise Science and Engineering Division and an associate professor in the School of Systems & Enterprises at the Stevens Institute of Technology. A former Fulbright Scholar, he holds degrees from Rutgers University in industrial engineering (Ph.D. and M.Sc.) and statistics (M.Sc.) and from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in actuarial science. His research efforts focus on the development of mathematical models for the analysis and computation of system operational effectiveness—reliability and vulnerability analysis as the basis for designing system resilience. He also works at the intersection of evolutionary computation for the optimization of complex problems associ- ated with system performance and design. His most recent research explores the interplay between data visualization and analytical decision making. In these areas, Dr. Ramirez-Marquez has conducted funded research for both private industry and government and has published more than 100 refereed

136 INVESTING IN TRANSPORTATION RESILIENCE manuscripts in technical journals, book chapters, and industry reports. He is an associate editor of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering’s IISE Transactions. He is a member of the Technical Committee on System Reliability for the European Safety and Reliability Association. Victor Rivas is a senior transportation consultant for Jacobs. His consulting and research assignments focus mainly on asset management, transporta- tion systems operations, and capital programming. His collaborative and multidisciplinary approach to problem solving has been applied to both the private and public sectors. Under a recent assignment, Mr. Rivas led a research team tasked with the development of the first Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Transit Asset Management Systems Handbook. Prior to joining Jacobs, Mr. Rivas led the team in charge of planning, program- ming, and managing the capital investment program for the fifth largest transit agency in the United States. Since 2012, Mr. Rivas has participated in the American Public Transportation Association Standards Program as a member of the State of Good Repair/Transit Asset Management Working Group. Mr. Rivas holds an M.S. in urban studies and planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also holds a master’s degree in urban planning and policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a B.A. from Southern Adventist University. John (Jack) V. Wells is a retired transportation economist with 30 years of experience in transportation economics and policy making. He has worked in academic, congressional, and executive branch environments, and in both political and career positions. His work has involved a wide range of issues involving transportation safety, infrastructure investment, and economic regulation, and has included conducting hearings, drafting leg- islation and regulations, and presenting testimony. As the chief economist at the U.S. Department of Transportation, he focused on the application of economic analysis to issues of transportation congestion, infra structure investment, and safety regulation, and gave particular attention to improv- ing the state of the art of benefit-cost analysis to assess regulatory initiatives and infrastructure investments. Since his retirement from his position as the chief economist, he has remained active in the professional transportation and economics communities. Prior to this position, Dr. Wells served as the chief economist at the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the deputy administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, the Democratic staff director of the House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials and the staff director for the House Transportation Sub committee on Investigations and Oversight, a senior economist at the U.S. General Account ing Office, and an assistant professor of economics at George Mason University.

APPENDIX A 137 He is active in the Transportation Research Forum (TRF), the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis (SBCA), and on committees of the Transportation Research Board (TRB). He has reviewed papers and helped to organize con- ferences for TRF, TRB, and SBCA; served on committees overseeing ongoing TRB studies on inland water transportation, bicycle transportation, and the economic value of transportation infrastructure; delivered guest lectures on transportation economics; and spoken before the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg on employment effects of infra structure investment. Shawn Wilson is the Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Transporta- tion and Development (LaDOTD). He was appointed to this position in 2016 after more than 10 years of executive service at LaDOTD. As the Secretary of LaDOTD, he oversees a multimodal transportation agency that administers programs for highways, aviation, transit, passenger rail, and ports and waterways. During his tenure as Secretary, Dr. Wilson has overseen many large investments in the state’s transportation infrastructure, including securing and obligating nearly $150 million additional federal dollars for Interstate highway widening projects and other large invest- ments to assist communities with alternative fueled transit assets, improve passenger rail service, and launch a bike share program in Baton Rouge. He is a member of the Transportation Research Board Executive Com- mittee. Dr. Wilson earned a B.A. in urban and regional planning from the University of Louisiana and an M.P.A. and a Ph.D. in public policy from the Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Southern University.