Bijan Khazai

Chief Executive Officer, Hotel Resilient

Bijan is an expert in risk assessment and has more than 20 years of experience in foresight methods in disaster risk management. Bijan led an international consortium of universities and private sector partners to develop standards for multi-hazard disaster risk management for hotels and resorts as part of the Hotel Resilient Initiative of the Global Initiative on Disaster Risk Management. He has also led teams of consultants and scientists as Project Manager or Principal Investigator in a number of international consulting and research projects on disaster risk management on behalf of the UN, World Bank and other multilateral agencies. He holds Masters and Doctoral degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.