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e Dennis S. Mileti Dennis Mileti is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Director of the Natural Hazards Research Applications and Information Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado in 1974; his M.A. in sociology was awarded in 1971 from California State University at Los Angeles; and he earned his B.A. degree in sociology in 1968 from the University of California at Los Angeles. Professor Mileti is the author of over 100 publications. Most of these focus on the societal aspects of mitigation and preparedness for natural hazards and disasters. He has served on a variety of advisory boards, for example, as Chairman of the Committee on Natural Disasters in the National Research Council, as a member of the Advisory Board on Research to the U.S. Geological Survey, and as Chair of the Board of Visitors to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Emergency Management Institute. e Dr. Mileti is currently a member of the Advisory Board to the Southern California Earthquake Center, the Mid,America Earthquake Engineering Center, the Multi, disciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, and he is a member of the Multi-hazard Mitigation Council. He is the co' founder and Co,Editor,in Chief of the journal Natural Hazards Review which is an interdisciplinary all,hazards journal devoted to bringing together the natural and social sciences, engineering, and the policy communities. Dennis recently completed a five year long national effort that involved over 130 experts to assess knowledge, research, and policy needs for natural and related technological hazards in the U.S. The summary of this work was published in 1999 as a book titled Disasters by Design: A Reassessment of Natural Hazards in the United States. e