Dinner Gala
Roger L. McCarthy, NAE
Senior Fellow, The B. John Garrick Institute for he Risk Sciences Institute
Title: Did the US Nonresponse to Piper Alpha Lead Directly to Deepwater Horizon?
Dr. McCarthy is a Senior Fellow at the Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences as well as an independent engineering consultant and owner of McCarthy Engineering, Palo Alto, California, and Board Member of Shui on Land, Ltd. Until 2008, Dr. McCarthy was chairman emeritus of Exponent, Inc., and chairman of Exponent Science and Technology Consulting Co., Ltd. (Hangzhou). Since joining Exponent (formerly Failure Analysis Associates) in 1978, he served as President, Chief Executive, and Chairman. He took Exponent public in 1990.
Dr. McCarthy has investigated some of the major disasters of the current age, including the grounding of the Exxon Valdez, the explosion and loss of the Piper Alpha oil platform in the North Sea, the fire and explosion on the semi-submersible Glomar Arctic II, the rudder failure and subsequent floundering of the VLCC Amoco Cadiz, the bombing of the Murtaugh Federal Building in Oklahoma city, the collapse of the walkways at the Kansas City Hyatt, and most recently the Deepwater Horizon Explosion, Fire, and Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Dr. McCarthy is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) of the U.S. National Academies.
Dr. McCarthy holds five academic degrees, including a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. He is based in Palo Alto, California, and is a Registered Professional Mechanical Engineer in the State of California and two other States.
