Who we are
SPA Risk LLC is led by Drs Charles Scawthorn, SE, and Keith Porter, PE
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Charles Scawthorn, SE, PhD
Academic background: Professor, Kyoto University (ret); PhD, Kyoto University, Japan, 1981; MS, Lehigh University, PA, 1968; BS, Cooper Union, NY, 1966 Dr. Scawthorn has more than 30 years of experience assessing
risk and developing integrated mitigation programs for natural and
technological hazards worldwide. Clients include FEMA, OES, the World Bank,
Global 1000 corporations and insurance companies. He led the technical
team developing the HAZUS® MH flood model. He has served on oversight
committees for NSF-sponsored earthquake engineering research centers and on
editorial committees for premier technical journals. He has authored
over 150 journal and conference articles and recently edited the
Earthquake Engineering Handbook. |
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Keith Porter, PE, PhD Academic background: Research Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2007-present; GW Housner Senior Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 2000-2007; PhD, Stanford University 2000; MEng, UC Berkeley 1990; BS, UC Davis 1987 Dr Porter has 18 years of experience assessing earthquake and hurricane risk for insurers, commercial and institutional building owners, and local governments. He has developed and applied a second-generation performance-based earthquake engineering methodology to assess probabilistic risk in terms of repair costs, casualties, and loss of use ("dollars, deaths, and downtime"). He is the author of over 50 scholarly and professional publications on multihazard risk. Clients include FEMA, OES, USGS, SCEC, CEA, Global 1000 corporations and insurance companies. |