Rud Platt is Professor of Geography and Planning Law in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He specializes in federal, state, and regional policies concerning land and water resource management and natural disasters. Dr. Platt chairs the National Research Council Roundtable on Natural Disasters and is a member of the NRC Water Science and Technology Board. He has previously served on eight panels of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, twice as chair. He has participated in many international meetings and has served as consultant to diverse organizations including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment, and the World Bank.
