Ann-Margaret Esnard

Ann-Margaret Esnard is a professor of public management and policy at Georgia State's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies and most recently coauthor of “Displaced by Disasters: Recovery and Resilience in a Globalizing World” (Routledge Press). She was hired in 2013 as part of the cluster on “Shaping the Future of Cities,” during the third phase of the University’s Second Century Initiative. In 2014, she was appointed as the Chair of GSU’s Council for the Progress of Cities.

Her expertise encompasses urban planning, disaster planning, vulnerability assessment, and GIS/spatial analysis. She has been involved in a number of research initiatives, including NSF funded projects on topics of population displacement from catastrophic disasters, and long-term recovery. She is the coauthor of the 2014 book Displaced by Disasters: Recovery and Resilience in a Globalizing World.

Esnard has served on a number of state and national committees including the Disasters Roundtable of the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Research Council’s committee on Private-Public Sector Collaboration to Enhance Community Disaster Resilience, and the State of Florida Post-Disaster Redevelopment Planning initiative.

Esnard holds degrees in Agricultural Engineering (B.Sc., University of the West Indies-Trinidad), Agronomy and Soils (M.S., University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez) and Regional Planning (Ph.D., UMASS-Amherst). She also completed a two year post-doc at UNC-Chapel Hi