Keith Porter

Keith Porter serves as chief engineer for the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, Canada's leading source for disaster resilience knowledge. He lives in London, Ontario. He specializes in the engineering economics of disaster risk reduction for climate and seismic hazards. He studies the costs and benefits of retrofit and better new design of buildings, utilities, and transportation infrastructure. He has written 275 scholarly and professional works. Notable works include Natural Hazard Mitigation Saves, the United States Geological Survey's disaster planning scenarios (ShakeOut, ARkStorm, Tsunami, and HayWired), and Federal Emergency Management Agency P-58. He holds civil and structural engineering degrees from University of California Davis, University of California Berkeley, and Stanford University, and professional engineering licenses from Colorado and California.