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Appendix A: Committee Biographies
Pages 113-118

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From page 113...
... Office of Management and Budget in positions of increasing responsibility, serving for 6 years as deputy associate director for energy and science. He has also served on a number of advisory bodies, including the Advisory Council of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Metropolitan Area Board of Directors for the Red Cross.
From page 114...
... He has previously served on numerous committees of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, including the Committee on EPP2010: Elementary Particle Physics in the 21st Century, the Committee on Burning Plasma Assessment, the Committee on Cost of and Payment for Animal Research, and he is a past member on the Board on Physics and Astronomy. BURCU AKINCI is the Paul Christiano Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Associate Dean for Research for the College of Engineering, director of the Engineering Research Accelerator, and codirector of Pennsylvania Smarter Infrastructure Incubator at Carnegie Mellon University.
From page 115...
... Dr. de la Garza is the chief editor of ASCE's Journal of Construction Engineering and Management and the past chair of the academic committee of the Construction Industry Institute.
From page 116...
... in zoology from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick. ROBERT PRIETO is currently Chairman and CEO of Strategic Program Management LLC, focused on improving capital efficiency in large capital construction programs and strengthening engineering and construction organizations.
From page 117...
... presidential appointees to the Asia Pacific Economic Coopera­tion Business Advisory Council; cochaired the infrastructure task force in New York after 9/11; and he served as chairman at Parsons ­Brinckerhoff, one of the world's leading engineering companies. He serves on the advisory board of the New York University Polytechnic School of ­Engineering Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and on the Engineering Academic Advisory Council of New York University, Abu Dhabi; he also previously served as a trustee of Polytechnic University.
From page 118...
... Later, he moved to Parsons Brinkerhoff and implemented these best practices in work such situations as the Medupi Power Plant in South Africa, at the time, the world's largest air-cooled power plant, and then as the project manager of the California High Speed Rail project, a $70 billion program designed to link San Francisco and Los Angeles with a high-speed train system.


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