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Cordoba Corp. Joins USC Professors to Address a United Nations Workshop on Sustainability Challenges Facing Developing Nations
LOS ANGELES --(Business Wire)--
Cordoba Corporation's Maria Mehranian joined professors Daniel Mazmanian
and Frank Zerunyan from the USC Price School of Public Policy earlier
this month to address a United Nations workshop in Yerevan, Armenia, on
sustainability challenges and opportunities facing the Commonwealth of
Independent States (CIS), a regional organization whose participating
countries are former Soviet Republics.
The workshop was part of a joint capacity-development initiative of the
UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the UN Development
Programme and included participants from a broad array of nations,
governments, universities, and international non-governmental
organizations.
Ms. Mehranian used her 27-year planning, engineering and policy
experience on large-scale infrastructure projects to address common
sustainability issues that California cities have addressed or continue
to do so. Her role as the curent member and past chair of the Los
Angeles Regional Quality Control Board also added a unique perspective
on how cities can become resilient in the face of immense environmental
changes, such as the on-going California drought. She also recently
addressed this topic at the UCLA Lake Arrowhead Symposium on Resilient
Cities and Regions.
"Professor Mazmanian and I were delighted that my dear friend of more
than two decades, and member of our Board of Advisors for the Executive
Education Forum at USC Price, accepted our invitation to join us in
Yerevan to build capacity among CIS countries," said Frank Zerunyan,
Professor of the Practice of Governance and Director of Executive
Education at USC Price. "Maria's contributions and expertise in
discussing water issues for sustainable development have been extremely
valuable."
Ms. Mehranian is the Managing Partner and Chief Financial Officer of
Cordoba Corporation. She received her Master's degree in Urban Planning
from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1986. She was recently
honored with the Woodbury University Women's Leadership Award as well as
the Corporate Woman of the Year Award by three California state
legislators. She has also been a featured lecturer on a range of policy
and planning topics at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, UCLA Luskin
School of Public Affairs and USC Price School of Public Policy.
CORDOBA CORPORATION is a civil engineering, construction management,
program management, and planning firm specializing in education and
facilities, transportation, and water and energy. The firm delivers
solutions to complex environmental and engineering challenges by
applying proven engineering and management expertise from project
conception to completion.
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