Dr. Miyamoto is a world-leading expert in disaster resiliency, response and reconstruction. He provides expert engineering and policy consultation to the World Bank, USAID, UN agencies, governments and private sector. He is a California Seismic Safety Commissioner, a Global CEO and structural engineer of Miyamoto International.  Dr. Miyamoto holds advance degrees from the Tokyo Institute of Technology and California State University where he has been recognized as a Distinguished Alumnus. His team won the Engineering News-Record’s “Best Global Project” award an unprecedented five times and the U.S. Presidential “E” award. Major media such as CNN, CBS, ABC, Al Jazeera, LA Times, NY Times, Times, and Rolling Stone have profiled him. He was also featured in the “Designing for Disaster” exhibit at the National Building Museum.