Development of the Global Earthquake Model and the OpenGEM Platform that serves as the point of access, is a global collaborative effort [read more about GEM Development here].
The public-private GEM Foundation is the legal entity driving this joint effort and it’s Governing Board comprising representatives of 25+ companies, countries/regions and international organisations, see to it that the models, software and tools are being developed ‘bottom-up’ and iteratively, involving as many experts and stakeholders as possible.
The organisational structure of the GEM Foundation, whose Secretariat is based in Pavia, Italy, is depicted in the following figure:
Governing Board
The Governing Board is the body through which decisions on all matters relating to GEM are taken. The board is comprised of representatives of all the participants that make up the GEM Foundation; Public Participants and Private Participants [founders and platinum sponsors] have voting rights and Associate Participants take part as non-voting members. The Secretary General takes part, with non-voting rights, in all Governing Board meetings, serving also as its executive secretary.
Current Governing Board members:
Public Participants: Mauro Dolce, Philipp Langer, Conrad Lindhom [tbc], John Ludden, David Middleton, Tso-Chien Pan, John Schneider, Vinicio Suarez [tbc], Jochen Zschau [Vice-Chair].
Private Participants: Claudio Boettcher, Gian Michele Calvi, Rowan Douglas, Lou Gritzo, Ming Lee, Anselm Smolka [Chair], Joerg Steffensen.
Associate Participants: Francis Ghesquire, Domenico Giardini, Tony Gibbs, Polat Gulkan, Andrew Maskrey, Badaoui Rouhban, Frédéric Sgard.
Scientific Board
The Scientific Board is the body through which the global scientific strategy of the GEM Foundation and corresponding implementation is monitored, reviewed, advised and guided. It provides the Governing Board with proposals on all matters related to the implementation of the work programme. The Scientific Board is made up of not more than 20 international experts selected by the Governing Board, with proven expertise on GEM Foundation-related scientific fields (hazard, vulnerability, risk, social-economic impact, and IT), experience on running large collaborative efforts, wideranging international connections, demonstrated capacity to secure significant contributions of data and work. They may also be representatives of international scientific associations. The membership features a duration of 2 years, renewable.
Current Scientific Board Members:
Hazard Domain: Massimo Cocco, Assia Harbi, Kazuki Koketsu, Mario Ordaz, Ross Stein.
Exposure/Vulnerability Domain: Paolo Bazzuro, Mustafa Erdik, Andrew King, Rudolfo Saragoni.
Socio-Economic Impact Domain: Omar Dario Cardona, Louise Comfort, Amod Dixit, Dwight Jaffee, Norio Okada.
IT Domain: Stuart Gill, Phillip Maechling.
Board of Auditors
The Board of Auditors is the body through which auditing of the accounting and administrative management of the GEM is carried out. The Board is formed by Franco Corona, Mauro Rossi and Saverio Signori [Chair].
Secretary General
The Secretary General acts as the Chief Executive Officer of GEM and has the authority, within limits and guidelines decided by the Governing Board, and, subject to the provisions of the GEM Statute, to administer funds and enter into contracts and agreements on behalf of GEM. The Secretary General also has the authority to take operative decisions and measures on scientific matters, in accordance with the provisions of the GEM Statute.
Rui Pinho is the Secretary General of the GEM Foundation.
The Secretariat
The Secretariat is responsible for executing all scientific management and administrative tasks as necessary to the achievement of GEM objectives. The Scientific Secretariat together with the Executive Committee has the role of managing the Global Components activities and ensuring integration with the Regional Programmes. The Secretariat holds funding contributions and all assets of GEM.
The current Secretariat human resources comprises fixed and affiliated staff members.
Executive Committee
The Executive Committee is the body through which the implementation of the scientific activities is operationally coordinated and enforced within the GEM Secretariat; the committee links the work being carried out on global and regional levels, with model building efforts.
Current members of the Executive Committee are Marco Pagani [Hazard Coordinator], Helen Crowley [Physical Risk Coordinator], Christopher Burton [Social Vulnerability Coordinator], Paul Henshaw [Senior Developer] John Tarter [IT Manager] and Florian Haslinger [Model Facility Manager].
Technical Advisory Pool
The Technical Advisory Pool (TAP) is a large pool of experts covering all of GEM's knowledge domains, from which a number of splinter working groups will be formed to review specific details of the project, as a function of the needs over the 5 years. The first splinter group, the Model Advisory Group (MAG) was created for the review of the GEM1 pilot project. Currently a hazard model integration working group is active, plus one focused at macroseismic intensity.
Model Advisory Group: John Adams, Ezio Faccioli, Ned Field, Meng-tan Gao, Gottfried Grunthal, Dirk Hollnack, Andrew King, Mario Ordaz, Mark Petersen, John Schneider, Nikosh Shimazaki, Paul Someville and Mark Stirling [active until April 2010].
Working Group on Hazard Model Integration: John Adams, Ned Field, Mark Petersen, Laura Peruzza, Oona Scotti and Mark Stirling.
Working Group on Macroseismic Intensity: Trevor Allen, Chris Belsham, Remy Bossu, Yousef Bozorgnia, Ken Campbell, Helen Crowley, Georgia Cua, Ezio Faccioli, Roxanne Foulser-Pigott, David Garcia, Paolo Gasperini, Sonia Giovanazzi, Tatiana Goded, Antonio Gomez, Gottfried Grunthal, Sergio Lagomarsino, Angelo Masi, Gero Michel, Roger Musson, Marco Pagani, Stefano Parolai, Robin Spence, Massimilliano Stucchi, Manuela Villani, David Wald, Bruce Worden, Ufuk Yazgan.
