• Resilience Program Manager | Education & Publications Director
• Speakers, Staff

Daniel Lerch is our Resilience Program Manager, responsible for supporting the staff and processes that deliver daily articles, bimonthly live events, featured series, and other offerings at our flagship website Resilience.org. He is also PCI’s Education & Publications Director, in which capacity he has been the lead editor and manager of our major books and reports since 2009, and co-developer and manager of the Think Resilience online course. Daniel was editor of The Communty Resilience Reader (2016) as well as author of Post Carbon Cities (2007), the first local government guidebook on planning for the end of cheap oil. He was also the founding chair of the Sustainable Communities Division of the American Planning Association and a founding co-director of The City Repair Project.

Daniel has delivered over 100 presentations to professional, government, and public audiences across the United States and internationally, and has been interviewed for numerous media outlets including The New York Times and Business Week. He has a Master of Urban Studies from Portland State University in Oregon.

Praise for Daniel’s Presentations

“Your presentation was excellent, and it elicited many positive comments from various conference attendees. We need more energetic, articulate, well-informed individuals such as yourself to spread the word far and wide about the energy shocks we face. We are rapidly running out of time.”

  – Larry Silverstein, New York Institute of Technology, Energy Shock conference

“I have attended many excellent lectures that define the problems of climate change and peak oil, but I’ve never seen such a well-organized presentation that addresses the problems and the planning for solutions.”

  – Rachel Wagner, Wagner Zaun Architecture (Duluth, Minn.)

“I think your session at the American Planning Association conference was one of the most important ones that I attended, and I want to thank you and the other speakers for putting on an excellent presentation.”

  – David Edgell, AICP, Delaware Office of State Planning Coordination