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Dr. Amadei is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received his PhD in 1982 from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Amadei is co-director of the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities at CU-Boulder and holds the Mortenson Endowed Chair in Global Engineering. He is also the Founding President of Engineers Without Borders - USA and the co-founder of the Engineers Without Borders-International network. Among other distinctions, Dr. Amadei is the 2007 co-recipient of the Heinz Award for the Environment; the recipient of the 2008 ENR Award of Excellence, the 2015 OPAL Award from ASCE and the 2015 Washington Award; an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering; and a senior Ashoka Fellow. He holds five Honorary Doctoral Degrees (UMass Lowell, Caroll College, Clarkson, Drexel, and WPI). In 2013 and 2014, Dr. Amadei served as a Science Envoy to Pakistan and Nepal for the U.S. Department of State.