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Farrokh Nadim, ScD
Technical Director, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) PO Box 3930 Ullevål Stadion, N-0806 Oslo, Norway Email: 
farrokh.nadim@ngi.no 
Mobile: (+47) 975 49 957 Fax: (+47) 22 23 04 48









Dr Farrokh Nadim is Technical Director at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI, www.ngi.no), coordinator of the International Centre for Geohazards (ICG,
www.geohazards.no) and adjunct professor at both the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and University of Oslo (UiO). He has a BSc in structural engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Iran, and MSc (1980) and ScD (1982) in civil engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr Nadim joined NGI in September 1982. His major fields of work are related to geohazards (landslides, earthquakes and tsunamis), risk and reliability analysis, geotechnical earthquake engineering, and offshore foundation engineering. He is the author or co-author of over 240 scientific publications, and a former Chair of Technical Committee 32 of ISSMGE: "Engineering practice of risk assessment and management". He is the Norwegian representative at European Association for Earthquake Engineering (EAEE), the past president in Norwegian Society for Earthquake Engineering, a member of ISO Panel 5 for Development of Seismic Design Guidelines for Offshore Structures and ISO TC98 for Seismic Actions on Geotechnical Works. Dr Nadim is one of the Lead Authors of IPCC’s Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX).




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