Niek Veraart

Niek serves as Senior Vice President and National Practice Lead – Planning at Michael Baker International with a focus on resilience and smart infrastructure. He led environmental and infrastructure planning services for the post-9/11 redevelopment of Lower Manhattan and post-Superstorm Sandy resiliency planning, including several Rebuild by Design projects and the NY Rising Community Reconstruction Program. He co-authored the “Installation Adaptation & Resilience Climate Change Planning Handbook” for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command and the handbook “Improving the Resilience of Transit Systems Threatened by Natural Disasters.” He has published and presented at the annual meetings and in the proceedings of the Transportation Research Board, the Infrastructure Security Partnership and the American Planning Association.