Plenary 2: Strengthening the DRI Agenda through Higher Education Programmes
This session will open avenues for strategic partnerships with higher education academic institutions to enable the next generation of infrastructure professionals. This session will aim to achieve the following objectives:
- To capitalize on the experiences of universities participating in various academic networks, leveraging these networks to conduct innovative research on DRI, utilizing this research in building curriculums, and accommodating industry feedback.
- To discuss ways of facilitating and creating modalities of industry-university connection for the creating the next generation of infrastructure professionals.
- Dr. Anand Patwardhan, Professor, Senior Fellow Center for Global Sustainability, University of Maryland (Moderator)
- Dr. Abhijit Datey, Lead Specialist – Research, CDRI
- Mr. Wasi Alam, Senior Specialist – Capacity Development, CDRI
- Mr. John Smith Sreen, Director Indo Pacific Office, USAID India
- Dr. Evangeline Inniss-Springer, Director, Disaster Risk Reduction Centre (DRRC), University of West Indies
- Dr. Francisca Rojas, Academic Practice Director, Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation, Johns Hopkins University
- Prof. Jan Whitington, Associate Professor, University of Washington
- Dr. Samantha Alvis, Senior Education Advisor, Bureau for Asia, Technical Services, USAID
- Ms. Chloe Demrovsky, International President and CEO at Disaster Recovery Institute (DRI) and Founding Vice chair, ARISE-US
- Mr. Hemang Jani, Senior Adviser to Executive Director, The World Bank
- Prof. Ravi Sinha, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay, India
- Dr. Joe Leitmann, Executive Director, University of California Disaster Resilience Network
- Prof. Luis Cifuentes, Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Systems, Pontifica University of Chile