Craig E. Taylor, 68, an expert in multihazard risk management who shaped new directions in catastrophe modeling and risk simulation, particularly for earthquakes, died on May 31 in Torrance, Calif., after a brief undisclosed illness, the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) confirms.
A research professor at the University of Southern California and long-time consultant to insurers and federal agencies, Taylor was a founding member and former chairman of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Council on Disaster Risk Management, and long-time editor its Natural Hazards Review journal.