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Rich Eisner, Government Liaison, BayPrep - Richard Eisner joins Fritz Institute's BayPrep after 23 years as Coastal Regional Administrator for the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES), where he was responsible for the State's responses to disasters in the San Francisco Bay Region and north coast counties, and also served as Manager for the California Integrated Seismic Network (CISN), tsunami and Earthquake Programs. Prior to that appointment he served as the founding Director of the Bay Area Regional Earthquake Preparedness Project (BAREPP), providing planning and technical assistance to promote and support earthquake preparedness and hazard mitigation by local governments and businesses throughout the San Francisco Bay Region.
His 30-year career as an architect, urban planner, and urban designer has focused on issues of seismic design and urban earthquake hazard reduction, and he participated in California's response to the Loma Prieta (1989), Cape Mendocino (1992), Landers/Big Bear (1992), and Northridge (1994) earthquakes, as well as doing research in several other post-earthquake investigations. A recognized expert in community preparedness, Eisner has presented papers on California's comprehensive approach to earthquake preparedness in the US, Japan, China, Kyrgystan and the Ukraine. He has consulted on issues of hazard mitigation and emergency management with several international groups including the Global Assessment of Earthquake Countermeasures in Kobe, Japan, and serves on the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Building Sciences and the California Earthquake Safety Foundation, and on the Advisory Committee of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program of FEMA, NIST, the USGS and NSF. Recently, Mr. Eisner was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Western States Seismic Policy Council (2007). |
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