About REA

Who We Are

The Resilience Engineering Association is an interdisciplinary community advancing how complex systems adapt, recover, and thrive under pressure.

Our team

The People Behind REA

We are dedicated professionals from diverse disciplines, united by a shared commitment to resilience engineering.

Beth Lay
Beth Lay
President

Forge Works
Director Consulting Solutions

Mike Rayo
Mike Rayo
Secretary

The Ohio State University
Associate Professor; Director, Cognitive Systems Engineering Laboratory

Josué E. Maia França
Treasurer

Petrobras/KTH
Lecturer; Researcher; Safety Engineer

Miriam
Memberships Chair

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital
Human Factors Engineer

Lida Z. David
Lida Z. David
Communications Chair

Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
Human Factors Engineer

Anthony Smoker
Communications team member - Webinars

Lund University
Researcher

Maria Calero
Communications team member- Webinars
Sudeep Hegde
Sudeep Hegde
Communications team member- Webinars

Clemson University
Assistant Professor

Guilherme C. Marion
Communications team member- Webinars

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
PhD Candidate

Sudeep
Communications team member- Webinars
Stéphane De Wolf
Communications team member

International Business Aviation Council
Safety & Regulatory Affairs Manager (IS-BAO Programme)

Thai Wood
Communications team member
Natalia
Communications team - Newsletter
Birte
Young Talents Chair

SHARE, University of Stavanger
Postdoctoral researcher

Taro Kanno
Young Talents Asia Chapter

The University of Tokyo
Associate Professor

Our Founders

Honorary Members & Founders

The visionaries who laid the foundations of Resilience Engineering as a discipline.

David Woods
Eric Hollangel
Richard Cook
Simon Gill
Jean Paries
Our Purpose

Mission & Vision

“A global community advancing resilience through knowledge, practice, and collaboration.”

Our Storyline

From the pioneering Clambake Conferences of the 1980s to the modern science of adaptive capability — discover the key milestones that shaped Resilience Engineering into what it is today.

Governance

How we are governed

The Resilience Engineering Association (REA) is a non-profit association governed by French Law.

The head office of the Association is at MINES ParisTech – Centre de Recherche sur les Risques et la Sécurité (CRC) Rue Claude Daunesse, B.P. 207F-06904 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France.