2021

March 9

Brian Harper

Planning Chief Regional Planning and Environmental Center

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Southwestern Division

11:30 AM CST

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Brian Harper is the Planning Chief for the Regional Planning & Environmental Center, which services the four districts in Southwestern Division: Fort Worth, Galveston, Little Rock, and Tulsa. He has 30 years of experience in economics, risk analysis and planning with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and has worked on navigation, flood and coastal risk, ecosystem restoration, hydropower, water supply, and recreation studies while with district offices in Galveston, Alaska, and Little Rock.

Mr. Harper started his USACE career in 1989 with the Los Angeles District. Since then, he has worked as a senior planner and economist with the USACE Institute for Water Resources, where he primarily focused on the application of risk and decision analysis methods in water resources planning activities across all business lines. He also worked with Headquarters USACE on the development and implementation of SMART Planning, served as a member of the Levee Safety Policy and Procedures team, and on the senior oversight groups for the dam and levee safety programs.

Mr. Harper earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Business from the University of California in 1989, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 1997.