Dinner - Keynote Speaker

Dr. Therese McAllister is the Group Leader and Program Manager of the Community Resilience Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She is also the NIST Federal Program Officer for the NIST-funded Center of Excellence – the Center of Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning. She leads research on community resilience, with a focus on the performance of physical infrastructure systems (buildings, transportation, water and wastewater, energy, and communication) and how they support social and economic needs and community functions.

Her expertise in structural reliability, risk assessment, failure analysis, and recovery of the built environment has been informed by studies of multiple hazard events, including the structural fire response and collapse of WTC towers for the NIST World Trade Center Investigation, Hurricane Katrina levee performance in New Orleans, and Hurricane Sandy flood effects on infrastructure systems. She serves on the ASCE Standard 7 committe and is an ASCE Structural Engineering Institute Fellow.

Title:

Community Resilience Needs and Challenges