Board of Directors

President

Biography

Mr. Tobin has worked on natural hazards, risk management and public policy issues for 45 years. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley in civil engineering and has a Master of Science degree in geotechnical engineering from San Jose State University. He is a registered professional engineer.  Read more

Past-President

Biography

Farzad Naeim is vice president and general counsel at John A. Martin and Associates, Inc., consulting structural engineers headquartered in Los Angeles, California. He holds doctorate degrees in both engineering and law and is a registered civil and structural engineer in California; a member of California bar, and a patent attorney.  Read more

Vice President

Biography

David A. Friedman is a licensed structural engineer and senior principal, chair of the Board of Directors, and former president and CEO of Forell/Elsesser Engineers, Inc., in San Francisco. At F/E for 30 years, David has had a deep involvement in many landmark projects including San Francisco City Hall, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the recently completed Taube-Koret Campus for  Read more

Secretary/Treasurer

Biography

Marshall Lew is senior principal and vice president of MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Inc., in Los Angeles, California. He has more than 30 years of professional experience in geotechnical and earthquake engineering and has been with MACTEC (and its predecessors, LeRoy Crandall and Associates and Law/Crandall) for more than 30 years.  Read more

Director

Biography

William A. Anderson has been at the National Academies’ National Research Council (NRC) since 2001 and has served as associate executive director in the Division on Earth and Life Studies and director of the Disasters Roundtable.  Read more

Director

Biography

Reginald DesRoches, Ph.D., is a Professor and Associate Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. He earned his bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. He has served EERI in numerous capacities, including the Nominations Committee, the Student Activities Committee, and the Learning from Earthquakes Committee.  Read more

Director

Biography

Joe Maffei is a structural engineer and principal with Rutherford & Chekene Consulting Engineers in San Francisco, which he joined in 1988. At R&C he directs projects involving expert review, applied research, and advanced methods of seismic evaluation and design.  Read more

Director

Biography

Ellen M. Rathje, Ph.D., P.E., is a Professor of geotechnical engineering in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She earned a B.S. in civil engineering from Cornell University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. She has been a faculty member at the University of Texas since 1998.  Read more

Director

Biography

Ivan Wong is a principal seismologist and vice president of URS Corporation in Oakland, California. He has more than 36 years of experience in the fields of engineering seismology and seismic geology.

A major focus in his career has been earthquake hazard reduction and awareness, and public outreach.  Read more