Ibbi Almufti is an internationally recognized expert in building engineering, risk assessment and resilience planning. He founded Arup’s Risk and Resilience practice in the Americas, helping organizations understand their risks to natural hazards and climate change and designing effective resilience strategies to mitigate risks. He originally pioneered risk modeling approaches to quantify the impacts of earthquakes in terms of downtime, economic losses, and life safety issues for buildings and communities and has adapted this to industry-leading approaches for climate hazards like flood, wind, heat, and wildfires. Ibbi is a thought leader in resilience-based design for new and existing buildings, having developed the REDi Rating System, a framework which provides owners, architects, and engineers a holistic approach for achieving “beyond-code” resilience and functional recovery objectives. He recently led the development of Arup’s Universal Taxonomy for Natural Hazard and Climate Risk and Resilience Assessments which brings much needed clarity and a common language for evaluation of climate risks.