Rae Zimmerman is Research Professor and Professor Emerita of Planning and Public Administration at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, following a full-time tenured professorship, and she currently directs NYU-Wagner’s Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems. She has authored or co-edited a half dozen books, including Transport, the Environment and Security and almost 200 other publications including analyzing networked interdependencies among infrastructure services (including food, energy and water and transportation intermediaries), and impacts of hazards, climate change, and social behavior on these networks. She holds a B.A. in Chemistry (U. of California, Berkeley, a Master of City Planning from the U. of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D in Planning from Columbia University.