Juan Francisco Gonzalez Jimenez

Juan Gonzalez is a Transport Specialist under the Transport and Communications Division of the Pacific Department of ADB. His work encompasses leading the preparation, processing, and administration of transport investment projects funded by ADB across the Pacific region, including planning, designing, undertaking consultant recruitment and procurement, and monitoring the projects.

Risk Assessment Frameworks for Resilient Infrastructure

Drawing from a forthcoming SDCC publication on the “state of play” on disaster-resilient infrastructure in Asia and the Pacific, a risk assessment framework for infrastructure will be presented. The methodology includes the importance of a risk narrative, the role of risk modeling, and how this informs integrated findings for decision making will be explored. An illustrative case of critical roads in Pakistan will be presented.