Sudhir Jain, IIT Gandhinagar director elected to IAEE top post

The director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn), Dr Sudhir K Jain, has been elected president of the International Association for Earthquake Engineering (IAEE).

Earthquake engineering associations and societies of 56 countries are members of IAEE. The association leads efforts in research, policies, regulations and education related to earthquake engineering around the world through different forums. An official communique from the organisation states that Dr Jain would continue serving IAEE for the next two years. He is an active academic in earthquake engineering who initiated activities related to that subject at IIT Kanpur in 1984. He set up and developed the National Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering (NICEE) at IIT-K. He also developed the National Programme on Earthquake Engineering Education (NPEEE), supported by the government of India.