Suzanne Lacasse Lecture

The Suzanne Lacasse Lecture was established in June 2015, with the approval of the ISSMGE Board, to honor the significant contributions to the geotechnical profession of Dr. Suzanne Lacasse. This Lecture is to be delivered as keynote lectures at major conferences by the world's leading scholars/practitioners in Engineering Practice of Risk Assessment & Management.

DR SUZANNE LACASSE

Dr Lacasse was born in the small town of Noranda in northern Québec, Canada. She did first a Bachelor of Arts and then took her education in Civil Engineering at Ecole Polytechnique of Montréal and MIT. She was Managing Director of the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) from 1991 to 2011, and now acts as Technical Director at NGI. During the early part, soil behaviour modelling and foundation engineering and design. She concentrated on combining mathematical and numerical analyses with practical geotechnical engineering design. She was a key member of the NGI-team developing practical design analysis procedures for offshore platforms subjected to storm loading. Since the mid 80s, she developed and applied statistics, probability and reliability methods to assist in foundation design and decision-making. She is well known for her contributions on hazard and risk assessment and risk management. Dr Lacasse gave in 2001 the 37^th Terzaghi Lecture on Offshore Geotechnics, in 2013 the 8^th ISSMGE Terzaghi Oration on Landslides and in 2015 the 55^th Rankine Lecture on Hazard, Risk and Reliability in Geotechnical Practice. Dr Lacasse received PhD's Honoris Causa from the University of Dundee and from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineers in the USA, Canada, Norway and France. She is Honorary Professor at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, and Chair of the Slope Safety Technical Review Board in Hong Kong. She has given keynote lectures in over 30 countries, and is the author of over 300 scientific papers.