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Appendix C: Panelist Biographical Sketches
Appendix C: Panelist Biographical Sketches
Pages 51-57
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He is currently president of the GeoHealth Section of the American Geophysical Union; chair of the World Meteorological Organization Research Board Task Team on COVID-19 and climate, meteorological, and environmental factors; and a commissioner on the City of Baltimore Sustainability Commission. Felicia Jefferson is a tenured associate professor within the University System of Georgia at Fort Valley State University.
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Panel 2: Governance Across Events: Decision Making and Policies Kristen Averyt is senior climate advisor in the Office of Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak, where she leads climate planning and policy development for the state. She is also research professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and previously served as president of the Desert Research Institute.
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He has received numerous awards, including two departmental Secretary's Gold Circle Awards and the North Carolina Emergency Management Association Colonel William A Thompson Award for Outstanding Achievement in Emergency Management.
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She has provided expert testimony to Congress on hazards and vulnerability, was a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force team that evaluated the social impacts of the New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Protection System in response to Hurricane Katrina, and was a juror for the Rebuild by Design competition for Hurricane Sandy reconstruction.
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Dr. Mahmoud's research program has three major thrusts: assessing community resilience and recovery of infrastructure and socioeconomic institutions following extreme events with a focus on climate-driven hazards; quantifying building damage to extreme single and multiple hazards; and evaluating deteriorated infrastructure, such as bridges and underwater systems.
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She specializes in equity services for public projects, supporting public agencies in developing operational and cultural practices to adopt and sustain equity, and project delivery services to guide equity goals and outcomes.
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for the joint United Nations Environment Programme/Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Environmental Emergencies Section on issues relating to complex, cascading, and protracted disasters and crises. Her graduate research was focused on the integration of climate change adaptation, disaster preparedness and response, and resilience into multilevel governance frameworks of international river basins.
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