CEO and Humanitarian Coordinator, Miyamoto International

 Dr. Miyamoto is a world-leading expert in disaster resiliency, response and reconstruction. He provides expert engineering and policy consultation to the World Bank, USAID, UN agencies, governments and private sector. He is a structural engineer, California Seismic Safety Commissioner, and a Global CEO of Miyamoto International.

Dr. Miyamoto has led numerous response and reconstruction projects globally, spanning from the 2010 Haiti earthquake to earthquakes in Ecuador, Nepal, Indonesia, Turkey, Morocco, Afghanistan, New Zealand, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. He also led critical seismic risk reduction programs in Turkey, the Philippines, Romania and Bangladesh, as well as disaster risk mitigation policy work in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and El Salvador. He is one of the most respected minds in disaster resiliency and recovery.

Dr. Miyamoto holds advance degrees from the Tokyo Institute of Technology and California State University, where he has been recognized as a Distinguished Alumni. His team won the Engineering News-Record’s “Best Global Project” award four times and the U.S. Presidential “E” award. Major media such as ABC, CNN, LA Times, NY Times and Rolling Stone have profiled him. He was also featured in the “Designing for Disaster” exhibit at the National Building Museum.