Christopher Clavin (Fed)

Christopher T. Clavin currently serves as the Senior Advisor for Resilience of the Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In this role, he leads and advises senior leadership in NIST’s Engineering Laboratory on initiatives to advance the resilience of the built environment to natural hazards. The Engineering Laboratory advances the resilience of the built environment through the development of guidance and tools to inform design practices for buildings and infrastructure systems to a range of natural hazards, and provides the basis to improve the standards and codes and community resilience and disaster recovery planning. Additionally, Mr. Clavin’s research in the Community Resilience Program focuses on the development and deployment of community-scale resilience planning methods and decision-making processes. He serves as the project lead for NIST’s Community Resilience Planning Guide project.

Mr. Clavin is a co-recipient of the Department of Commerce’s Bronze Medal in 2023 in recognition of developing a science-based ASTM standard for community disaster resilience planning. In 2023, he received ASTM’s E60 Sustainability Award of Recognition for significant technical contributions in the creation of Standard E3341 - Standard for General Principles of Resilience. Mr. Clavin previously served on the American Geophysical Union’s Science and Society Section Executive Committee. 

Mr. Clavin joined NIST in 2019 as a Research Environmental Engineer in the Community Resilience Group. From 2022-2024, he served on detail at the Office of Management and Budget where he was responsible for leading efforts to address natural hazards resilience in Federal infrastructure programs. Prior to joining NIST, Mr. Clavin was a Research Staff Member at the Institute for Defense Analyses’ Science and Technology Policy Institute where he led research teams providing science policy analysis at the intersections of energy, environment, and community resilience.