Martin Wieland has been the Chairman of the ICOLD Committee on Seismic Aspects of Dam Design since 1999 and has more than 40 years of experience in dam and earthquake engineering. He has worked in 35 countries, on 115 large dam projects and obtained his civil engineering degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. He has authored more than 300 technical papers in the fields of dam and earthquake engineering and is an Honorary Member of ICOLD. He also received an Honorary Professorship from Hohai University in Nanjing in 2002.