Dr. Akshay Gupta leads AIR Worldwide’s San Francisco office and the company’s Catastrophe Risk Engineering practice, which focuses on providing corporate risk managers, brokers, and insurers with engineering-based, site-specific risk assessment services for high-value and complex facilities and operations. Dr. Gupta also focuses on development of natural catastrophe risk models and projects that support disaster risk financing and mitigation programs for sovereign states. Dr. Gupta has more than 15 years of experience in natural hazard risk analysis, mitigation, and modeling. He holds a PhD and MS in structural engineering from Stanford University, and a bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, India. He is a member of various professional organizations and the author of numerous technical papers. Dr. Gupta is a licensed professional engineer in California and Florida.