Forrest M. Lanning
Candidate for City Council (At-Large), El Cerrito · Earthquake Resilience Engineer
Forrest M. Lanning is a structural and seismic-risk engineer with more than 20 years of experience leading disaster-resilience, infrastructure and seismic-safety work on five continents. He works for FEMA as an earthquake response liaison and post-disaster housing and construction lead, and is the founder of Endapt, a geospatial platform aimed at helping cities, insurers and infrastructure leaders adapt to earthquake and other environmental risks. He has advised the World Bank, USAID and the United Nations on risk-reduction programs in high-risk regions including Afghanistan, New Zealand, and Central and South America, is a California-licensed professional engineer and New Zealand chartered structural engineer, and an EERI Housner Fellow.
Positions in brief
No detailed campaign issues platform was found for Lanning beyond his professional background in earthquake resilience and disaster recovery.
Lanning's public profile centers on his career in structural and seismic-risk engineering, including his current FEMA role and his own earthquake-resilience venture, but no campaign website or specific stated positions on city issues were found.
On the issues
- Taxes & Cost of Living
Says his career managing infrastructure projects on limited budgets taught him to prioritize investments, cut waste, and get the most value for every public dollar spent.
“Managing projects with limited budgets taught him the importance of prioritizing investments, eliminating waste, and finding practical solutions that deliver the greatest benefit for every dollar spent.”
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