Maggie Ortiz-Millan is Director of Programs at the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI). She has over 10 years of experience managing projects aimed at increasing the resilience of communities to earthquakes. She currently manages EERI’s Learning from Earthquakes (LFE) program where she coordinates the engineering and scientific community response to major earthquakes in the U.S. and around the world.

Maggie earned a Master's degree in Structural Engineering, Mechanics, and Materials and a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. As a graduate student she studied the effects of earthquake forces on building façades through experiments conducted at the University of California, Berkeley and at the world’s largest shaking table facility in Miki, Japan. She is part of the 2002 cohort of Gates Millennium Scholars.