Farrokh Nadim

Dr Farrokh Nadim is Expert Advisor at Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI). He received his DSc in civil engineering from MIT in 1982. His major fields of work are risk assessment and reliability analysis, onshore and offshore geohazards, landslide hazard and risk mapping, tailings dams and rockfill dams, design of offshore foundations, and geotechnical earthquake engineering. From 2003 to 2013, Dr Nadim was the Director of the International Centre for Geohazards, one of the first Centres of Excellence in Norway. He is the author or co-author of over 280 scientific publications and 150 scientific reports, a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) (2009-2011), and one of the key contributors to the bi-annual Global Assessment Reports for Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) of UNISDR since 2009. Dr Nadim is the former chair of International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) Technical Committee 304: “Engineering Practice of Risk Assessment and Management” and Editorial Board member of journals "Georisk" and "Landslides".