ON Sunday, February 4, 2007,
Dr. Dennis S. Mileti is Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado at Boulder where he served as Director of the Natural Hazards Center and as Chair of the Department of Sociology.
He is author of over 100 publications. Most are on the societal aspects of hazards and disasters. His book Disasters by Design summarized our nation’s effort to assess knowledge and national policy for hazards and disasters.
He has served on a variety of advisory boards including:
- Chairman of the Committee on Natural Disasters in the National Academy of Science’s National Research Council
- Chair of the Board of Visitors to FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute, and
He was a member of the:
- Board of Directors of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
- Advisory Board to the U.S. Geological Survey’s Research Program on Earthquakes and Volcanoes
- Expert Advisory Panel to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s study of Evacuation of the World Trade Center Towers on September 11th
- American Society of Civil Engineer’s Expert Panel overseeing the Army Corps of Engineer’s assessment of the New Orleans levee failures and consequences. He was given the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal in 2007 by the Department of the Army for that work.
Dennis was the Founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the all-hazards, all-disciplines journal the Natural Hazards Review.
He is currently:
- a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s National Social Science Research Center on Terrorism
- Vice Chair of the California Seismic Safety Commission
