Edward Fernandez

Ned previously served as Arcadis’ Urban and Coastal Resilience Planning and Policy team lead. In this role, he provided ongoing support to several state, local, and non-profit organizations with grant application development and management. Ned has worked on a variety of resilience planning projects and has served as project manager for several state-level program management initiatives. He has extensive experience with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Hazard Mitigation Assistance programs, FEMA Public Assistance program, the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration Emergency Relief program, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Mitigation programs. Ned used his experience in hazard mitigation, economic impact analysis, and benefit-cost analysis to develop methods for post-disaster loss avoidance assessment and to analyze return on investment for flood and wind hazard mitigation projects.