Sabine Kast is a Senior Principal at Miyamoto International and serves as Executive Director of Miyamoto Global Disaster Relief. She leads high-impact international programs that deliver rapid response, recovery, and reconstruction solutions following major disasters. Her work focuses on strengthening disaster resilience through expert engineering, strategic partnerships, and targeted interventions that safeguard lives and economies.
Under her leadership, Miyamoto Relief has expanded its global footprint, responding to major disasters in Haiti, Türkiye, Morocco, and beyond. In Haiti, she directed efforts to retrofit a high-risk school in Port-au-Prince, making it safe for more than 1,500 students. The project earned the Engineering News-Record’s Global Best Project Award and set a model for safe school reconstruction in disaster-prone regions.

Sabine played a pivotal role in the response to the 2015 Nepal earthquakes, managing assessments of over 1,000 critical structures and leading efforts in high-risk economic and tourism zones. Her work also includes technical leadership on USAID-funded disaster risk reduction projects in Latin America, focused on scalable, engineering-based solutions.
A recognized voice in seismic safety, Sabine frequently speaks on resilient infrastructure and the protection of children in disasters. She is a driving force behind practical, measurable solutions that deliver safety, stability, and economic security to vulnerable communities worldwide.