Brian Tucker
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Brian E. Tucker is a a disaster prevention specialist and seismologist. He is the founder (1991) and president of Palo Alto-based GeoHazards International (GHI), the only not-for-profit, non-governmental agency dedicated to preventing structural failures in developing countries. In 2001 he was awarded the Gorakha Dakshin Bahu Award for service to Nepal by the King of Nepal and he was a 2002 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant".
[edit] Biography
Tucker attended Pomona College (Class of 1967) and is a University of California, San Diego Alumnus, earning his Ph.D. (1975) from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and an M.A. (1991) in Public Policy from Harvard University. He was Acting State Geologist, Principal State Geologist, and Supervising Geologist of the California Geological Survey (1982-1991). Tucker was a consulting professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. He is a member of the editorial board of The Journal of Earthquake Engineering. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Seismological Society of America as well as the board of the World Seismic Safety Initiative.
He is married with two children, Xanthia and Mycal.
[edit] Work
Tucker works with local governments, artisans and citizens to implement cost-effective measures to construct or upgrade schools and other public service buildings and to educate residents about damage-prevention measures. He is an expert at adapting techniques used by developed countries in risk-mitigation projects so that they fit within the social, political and economic constraints of at-risk communities in the developing world.
