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Appendix A: Committee Biographies
Pages 67-72

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... He has also served on a number of advisory bodies, including the NASA Advisory Council and the Metropolitan Area Board of Directors for the Red Cross. From Carnegie Mellon University, Mr.
From page 68...
... He has previously served on numerous National Academies' committees, 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 of the Board on Physics and Astronomy. BURCU AKINCI is the Paul Christiano Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the associate dean for research for the College of Engineering, the director of the Engineering Research Accelerator, and the co-director of the Pennsylvania Smarter Infrastructure Incubator at Carnegie Mellon University.
From page 69...
... Dr. de la Garza is the chief editor of ASCE's Journal of Construction Engineering and Management and a member of the funded studies committee of the Construction Industry Institute (CII)
From page 70...
... ROBERT PRIETO is currently the chair and chief executive officer of Strategic Program Management LLC, focused on improving capital efficiency in large capital construction programs and strengthening engineering and construction organizations. Previously, he was a senior vice president of Fluor focused on the development and delivery of large, complex projects worldwide.
From page 71...
... presidential appointees to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Advisory Council; co-chaired the infrastructure task force in New York after 9/11; and served as the chair at Parsons Brinckerhoff, one of the world's leading engineering companies. He serves on the advisory board of the New York University School of Engineering Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Engineering Academic Advisory Council of New York University, Abu Dhabi; he also previously served as a trustee of Polytechnic University.
From page 72...
... Subsequently, he became the president of Hill International, a private company advising on project management practices for companies throughout the nation. Later, he moved to Parsons Brinkerhoff and implemented these best practices in work situations such 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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