Andrew Rumbach, PhD, is a senior fellow and co-leader of the Climate and Communities program at the Urban Institute. Rumbach's research, professional practice and policy work focuses on hazard mitigation, disaster recovery and climate change adaptation. His areas of emphasis include affordable housing, zoning and land-use policy, community disaster recovery, historic preservation, public participation, local-government decision making, and rural planning. He has published dozens of peer-reviewed studies on disaster and climate related topics in venues like Natural Hazards, Natural Hazards Review, Housing Studies, the Journal of Urban Affairs, and Habitat International. He also sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Planning Association and the Journal of Planning Literature, two leading scientific journals in the fields of urban studies and planning.
Before joining the Urban Institute in 2023, Rumbach was a tenured professor of urban planning at Texas A&M University and the University of Colorado Denver. He earned a BA in political science from Reed College and a PhD and MRP in city and regional planning from Cornell University.