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Cordoba Corp. Joins USC Professors to Address a United Nations Workshop on Sustainability Challenges Facing Developing Nations
[October 23, 2014]

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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