Helen Crowley

Helen Crowley is Secretary General of the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation, a non-profit non-governmental organization that drives a global collaborative effort to develop open data, tools and software for state-of-the-art seismic hazard and risk assessment. She has an MEng in Civil Engineering from Imperial College, and both an MSc and PhD in Earthquake Engineering, and over 20 years of experience in seismic risk and earthquake loss modelling. She is the author/co-author of over 200 publications, peer reviewer for over 20 international scientific journals and Editor of Earthquake Spectra. Her awards include the 2009 European Geosciences Union Plinius Medal, the EERI’s 2012 Shah Family Innovation Prize and the 2024 SSA/EERI Joyner Memorial Lecture.