Dennis S. Mileti is Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado at Boulder where he served as Director of the Natural Hazards Center and as Chair of the Department of Sociology.

He is author of over 100 publications. Most of these are on the societal aspects of natural and technological hazards and disasters. His book Disasters by Design summarized a national effort to assess knowledge and policy in the U.S. for hazards and disasters.

He has served on a variety of advisory boards including:
• Chairman of the Committee on Natural Disasters in the National Research Council,
• Chair of the Board of Visitors to FEMA's Emergency Management Institute, and
• He was a member of:

-the Board of Directors of the Earthquake Engineering
Research Institute,
-the Research Advisory Board to the U.S. Geological
Survey's Research Program on Earthquakes and Volcanoes, and
-the Expert Advisory Panel to the National Institute of Standards and Technology's study of Evacuation of the World Trade Center Towers on September 11th.

Dennis was the Founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the all-hazards, all-disciplines journal the Natural Hazards Review.

He is currently:
• a member of the Department of Homeland Security's National Social Science Research Center on Terrorism,
• a member of the California Seismic Safety Commission,
• and he is on the Expert Panel overseeing our national assessment of the New Orleans levee failures and their consequences by the Army Corps of Engineers

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