Susanne DesRoches is the Deputy Director for Policy, Infrastructure at the New York City Mayor's Office of Recovery and Resiliency where she focuses on adapting regional infrastructure systems to climate change. In this role, she leads the NYC Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, a group of 60 public and private infrastructure operators, to identify climate risks, coordinate adaptation strategies and develop resiliency design guidelines. Susanne was previously the Chief of Resilience and Sustainability in the Engineering Department at the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, where she oversaw incorporation of sustainability and climate resiliency into the agency's $27B ten-year capital program. She led the development of the PANYNJ Climate Resilience Design Guidelines, which incorporates future climate impacts into design strategies. She represented PANYNJ on numerous regional climate change initiatives including the NYC Building Resiliency Task Force, the NYC Climate Change Adaptation Task Force and the New York State Climate Action Council. Susanne holds a Bachelor of Industrial Design from Pratt Institute and an MPA in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University. She is faculty in the Master of Science in Sustainability Management at Columbia University.