2016 National Academy of Engineering Annual Meeting

As president and COO of SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell is responsible for day-to-day operations and for managing customer and strategic relations to support company growth. She joined SpaceX in 2002 as vice president of Business Development and built the Falcon vehicle family manifest to more than 70 launches, representing more than $10 billion in ...

Robert J. Nicholls has studied coastal processes, coastal hazards, and their solution for 25 years and established an international reputation on climate change in coastal areas, especially potential impacts and adaptation responses. A distinctive dimension of his research has been consideration of the coastal zone as a series of interacting ...

Ali Velshi was most recently the host of “Ali Velshi On Target” a nightly prime-time show on Al Jazeera America with debates, interviews, and on-the-ground reporting. He has reported from the US presidential campaign trail and from Turkey on ISIL and the Syrian refugee crisis, from Tehran on the days leading up to the nuclear deal, and ...

Bart de Jong is counselor for Infrastructure and the Environment at the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington. He covers relations with counterpart US government agencies, multilateral institutions, NGOs, and the US private sector. Policy areas include water management, infrastructure, transport, climate, and the environment.

He joined the ...

Rear Adm. Bret Muilenburg assumed his duties as commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command and Chief of Civil Engineers in November 2015.
His operational tours of duty include assignments with Naval Mobile Construction Battalions 62, 133, and 7; the 30th Naval Construction Regiment and Task Force Forager, theater engineers for International ...