Name: Scott Davis

About: Bio for Scott G. Davis, AICP Principal, SGD Urban Solutions Scott is an urban planner and principal of SGD Urban Solutions, an independent consulting practice focused on risk-informed planning and design. He has worked for a university, a nonprofit community development organization, and multiple federal agencies—experiences from which he brings a multi-faceted perspective to creative problem solving. He specializes in climate adaptation, urban resilience, and disaster recovery with an emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration and participatory planning and design. Current work includes serving as a subject matter expert for FEMA’s Public Assistance Program and Hazard Mitigation Assistance Program. He is also a member of the interdisciplinary design team incorporating resilience and sustainability into Philadelphia’s Delaware River Waterfront Master Plan as well as damaged parks and infrastructure in the city of Asheville following Hurricane Helene. Recent work includes providing urban resilience and climate adaptation technical assistance to local jurisdictions throughout the country participating in HUD’s Climate Communities Initiative as well as the joint HUD/FEMA Pre-Disaster Housing Planning Initiative. In addition, Scott has provided disaster recovery capacity building assistance to local communities in Puerto Rico and a coalition of nonprofit organizations in Eastern Kentucky. Following Hurricane Maria, Scott spent more than a year in Puerto Rico serving as an advisor to FEMA on recovery planning, capacity building, and coordination efforts. Climate adaptation planning projects include the Isle de Jean Charles Resettlement Master Plan in coastal Louisiana as well as the Comprehensive Infrastructure Master Plan for the Caño Martín Peña district in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Prior to 2017, Scott served as a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). While with the Department, his roles included serving as a Senior Advisor in the Office of Community Planning and Development, the Office of the Secretary, and the President’s Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force. He also served as Director of the Disaster Recovery Division, responsible for the national portfolio of Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funding. Building on his research and policy expertise, Scott’s responsibilities on the Sandy Task Force included playing a leadership role in the administration of Rebuild by Design: A Planning and Design Competition to Increase Resilience in the Sandy-Affected Region. From this experience, he was selected by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the General Services Administration as a mentor for the federal challenge.gov prize and challenge community. While with HUD, Scott spent over a year on detail assignment as a Visiting Fellow at the RAND Corporation working on disaster recovery reform and resilient infrastructure finance. Since 2016, Scott ha

City: Washington

State/Province: DC

Country: United States of America