Roundtable with Miyamoto International CEO Kit Miyamoto

Roundtable with Miyamoto International CEO Kit Miyamoto

AmCham Turkey/ABFT organized a roundtable meeting with Kit Miyamoto, International CEO of Miyamoto. Attended by 30+ sector proffessionals, the event has focused on “Earthquake Risk and Solutions for Global Businesses”

Kit Miyamoto, International CEO, Miyamoto

Dr. H. Kit Miyamoto leads Miyamoto International, a global earthquake structural engineering company, Miyamoto Global Disaster Relief, a non-profit technical organization, and is a California Seismic Safety Commissioner. Dr. Miyamoto is a two-time recipient of the ENR Best Global Projects Award and a ASCE Humanitarian Award.

Dr. Miyamoto is an expert consultant to the World Bank on projects globally, including a seismic risk mitigation project for 2,000 public buildings in Istanbul.  In the 2010 Haiti earthquake, he worked with the government of Haiti, UN, USAID and NGOs to conduct damage assessments of more than 430,000 earthquake-damaged structures and rebuild more than 12,000 buildings. He is currently involved with earthquake reconstruction in Nepal and Ecuador.

Dr. Miyamoto graduated from the Tokyo Institute of Technology and California State University, where he has been recognized as a Distinguished Alumni. He has been featured by CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, the Discovery Channel, the New York Times and Rolling Stone.

Earthquake Risk and Solutions for Global Businesses  

The impact of natural disasters is a growing issue throughout countries and economies globally. Nearly 40 percent of the largest cities in the world and more than one billion people live in areas that experience major earthquake disasters, resulting in large numbers of casualties, and placing a huge burden on the regional and national economy.

How can the private and public sector better prepare for and overcome the many challenges of disaster recovery? How are countries in seismic areas preparing for future disasters and how do countries reduce earthquake disaster risk?

From New Zealand to Haiti and Ecuador, China and Japan, Dr. H. Kit Miyamoto, structural earthquake engineer, CEO of Miyamoto International and California Seismic Safety Commissioner, has responded to dozens of earthquakes and participated in the design and implementation of cost effective strengthening and reconstruction around the world.

Dr. Miyamoto makes a case for lessons learned from other parts of the world in his address on a risk management and commercial approach to earthquake engineering. Join us as he shares his experience on the limitations of building codes, advancement in technologies and what has and has not been successful in Turkey  and other countries.