About me
As Deputy Commissioner for the Bureau of Coastal Resilience, Laurian leads the coastal
resilience efforts for New York City’s 520 mile shoreline. She has worked in the private, public
and philanthropic sectors for 24 years, is a water resources engineer, has a master’s
degree in landscape architecture and centers equity in her practice. She moved to the
United States from Toronto, Canada in 2019 to join the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient
Cities and served as a Global Director at the Resilient Cities Network, where she
developed a deep, international understanding of the challenges facing ultra-urban
coastal cities.