Guo Guizhen, Associate Researcher and PhD, is the Director of the Integrated Risk Monitoring and Early Warning Center of the National Disaster Reduction Center of China under the Ministry of Emergency Management. He graduated from the School of Architectural Engineering, Tianjin University, and is mainly engaged in disaster monitoring, early warning and loss assessment. 

He took part in the integrated assessment and field survey on some large-scale natural disasters, such as Lushan Earthquake in Sichuan, Ludian Earthquake in Yunnan and a major earthquake in Nepal. As a Chinese expert, he joined in many international cooperation projects, including the disaster-relief exercise in 2015 under the ASEAN Regional Forum, on-site survey and assessment of the Ecuador M7.8 Earthquake in 2016. As a member of the national emergency response team, he has visited the disaster areas for emergency response for more than 50 times. 

He has been involved in the development of several national standards and policies, including the Statistical System on the Damage and Loss of the Large-scale Natural Disasters, the Standards for Disaster Relief Supplies Reserve and the Standards on the Identification of Housing Damaged and Collapsed in Nature Disasters. So far, he has published more than 20 papers on SCI, EI and other core academic journals in China and beyond.