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Mark Stewart is Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Centre for Built Infrastructure Resilience in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Technology Sydney. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) from Monash University and a PhD from the University of Newcastle, completed in 1987. Prior to joining UTS, he was Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Centre for Infrastructure Performance and Reliability at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Throughout his career, Stewart has established himself as an international leader in engineering risk assessment and probabilistic methods applied to infrastructure and engineering systems.

Stewart's research specializations encompass risk and vulnerability assessment for extreme hazards, including climate change adaptation strategies for concrete structures, counter-terrorism protective measures, and terrorism risk analysis. He has authored five books, including Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Engineering Systems (1997), Terror, Security, and Money: Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security (with John Mueller, 2011), Chasing Ghosts: The Policing of Terrorism (with John Mueller, 2016), Are We Safe Enough?, and Engineering for Extremes: Decision-Making in an Uncertain World (2022). With over 390 peer-reviewed publications and more than 14,700 citations, his work has significantly influenced public policy decision-making on resource allocation for homeland security and infrastructure resilience. He has secured over $10 million in research funding and serves on the editorial board of Structural Safety. Stewart's honors include election as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) in 2020, Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (FRSN) in 2021, Fellow of Engineers Australia (FIEAust), Fellow of the International Association for Protective Structures (FIAPS), and Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng). He has consulted for Australian and US defense agencies on terrorism risk analyses and delivered keynote lectures worldwide, such as the Fazlur R. Khan Distinguished Lecture.