Dina D’Ayala is the UNESCO Chair of Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Engineering at UCL. She is a Professor of Structural Engineering within the CEGE Department and the Co-Director of the EPICentre and of the StrEnTHE, the Structural and Environmental Laboratory at UCL HERE EAST. She is the Director of the International Association of Earthquake Engineers and a Fellow of the ICE. Her specialism is Structural Resilience Engineering with an emphasis on the assessment and resilience of existing buildings, infrastructure, and cultural heritage. Her research focuses on the resilience of buildings and infrastructure to climate and geophysical hazards, supported by Horizon Europe and UKRI. She works with the World Bank, ODA, UNDP, British Council, and the UK FCDO in countries such as Nepal, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq, and the Philippines, leading interdisciplinary projects. She has produced Guidelines for the Global Earthquake Model. She is the chief scientist for the World Bank on the Global Programme for Safe Schools (GPSS) and leads the development of the World Bank GLOSI project. Currently, she works in close collaboration with UNESCO to embed a technical culture on the risk and resilience of infrastructure in tertiary education worldwide. Professor D'Ayala is the Associate Editor of the European Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, Associate Editor of Nature Scientific Report, and a long-standing member of EEFIT, for which she has led numerous reconnaissance missions worldwide.