Peter Yanev is widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts with regards to earthquake risk management and earthquake engineering. Mr. Yanev founded EQE International, the world's leading risk engineering and earthquake engineering firm until its sale in 2000, when it employed over 800 professionals.

During the last forty six years, EQE personnel have visited and studied over 100 major earthquakes worldwide in order to better understand their effects on organizations, buildings, and systems. Mr. Yanev has personally headed teams investigating over fifty earthquakes and sent teams to the others in order to capture the lessons learned first-hand. EQE's past earthquake investigations, the most thorough in the risk consulting industry, are the foundation of our knowledge and business. Peter has conducted hundreds of risk and engineering projects for numerous private industry clients across virtually all business sectors on six continents including housing, power and infrastructure, biotech and healthcare, oil and gas, forest products, governments and NGOs, among others.  Much of that work was for Canadian corporations and government agencies, primarily along the West Coast. Mr. Yanev also has more than twenty-five years experience with development bank projects around the world, and particularly with the World Bank.