Alumni of Greece: Climate Change and Natural Disasters: A Heavy Toll, Actions, and the Future

The Georgetown University Alumni of Greece invite you to a Dinner at Ekali Club on Wednesday, October 20 at 8 p.m. accompanied by a keynote speech on “Climate Change and Natural Disasters: A Heavy Toll, Actions and the Future”.

Dr. Costas Synolakis
Chairman, National Council for Climate Change
President, Athens College

Sponsor of the event: J. Safra Sarasin Private Bank
Ticket person: €40/person, part of the proceeds will be donated to WWF
Location: Ekali Club, 15 Lofou Street, 14578

RSVP by October 10, at gualumnigreece@gmail.com
Vaccination Certificate is Required @ Entrance

A member of the Academy of Athens, Professor Costas Emmanuel Synolakis graduated from Athens College in 1975. He earned his B.Sc. in Engineering and Applied Science in 1978, his M.Sc. in Civil Engineering in 1979, and his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering in 1986, all from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 2016 he was elected a regular Member of the Academy of Athens and serves currently as Secretary of the Division of Natural Sciences.

In 1985 he was appointed Professor of Civil, Environmental and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Southern California (U.S.C.) where in 1996, he founded the USC Tsunami Center. Following his appointment as Professor of Natural Hazards and Environmental Hydraulics at the Technical University of Crete and his election by the National Research and Technology Council, he served as President of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research. In 2019 he was elected Chairman of the newly established Special Scientific Committee on Climate Change in Greece, where he serves pro bono. In July 2020, he assumed the Office of President of Athens College in Greece.

Professor Costas Emmanuel Synolakis is an internationally renowned pioneer in the field of tsunami research and other natural hazards. He has authored a large number of publications, studies, and articles in scientific journals and has conducted numerous field expeditions around the world. Amongst the most significant academic accolades and other distinctions in Greece and abroad, is the Presidential Young Investigator Award bestowed upon him in 1989 by U.S. President George Bush, and the prestigious 2019 International Coastal Engineering Award of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). In 2020, he received the Hamaguchi Award bestowed upon individuals or organizations that have made significant scientific or pragmatic contributions to the enhancement of coastal resilience against tsunami, storm surge and other coastal disasters, raising people’s awareness of disaster resilience.