Richard G. Little is a private consultant on matters of infrastructure policy and Editor of the Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy. He is a 1969 graduate of RPI with a degree in Geology, received an M.S. in Urban-Environmental Studies from RPI in 1970, and was a Visiting Research Scholar in disaster mitigation at ISE from 2013 to 2026. He was a Senior Fellow in the Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California and Director of the USC Keston Institute for Public Finance and Infrastructure Policy from 2004 to 2012. Before joining USC, he was Director of the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment of the National Research Council (NRC) from 1995 to 2004 where he directed a program of studies in building and infrastructure research. He has conducted numerous studies dealing with life-cycle management and financing of infrastructure, project management, and hazard preparedness and mitigation and has lectured and published extensively on risk management and decision-making for critical infrastructure.  Mr. Little has more than fifty years’ experience in planning, management, and policy development relating to civil infrastructure, including fifteen years with local government. He has been certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners and was elected to the National Academy of Construction in 2008.