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Appendix B: Biographical Information-Plenary Session Participants
Appendix B: Biographical Information-Plenary Session Participants
Pages 39-48
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Prior senior leadership assignments included Chief of Staff of the Coast Guard, Atlantic Area Commander, Commander of the Seventh Coast Guard District (Southeast US and Caribbean Region) , and Coast Guard Director of Resources.
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Army Corps of Engineers Interagency Performance Evaluation Taskforce that evaluated the social impacts of the New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Protection System in response to Hurricane Katrina. She has authored a Trends and Outlook report for the US Army Corps of Engineers on Natural and Human-Induced Disasters and other Factors Affecting Future Emergency Response and Hazard Management.
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. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Wharton School's Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the University of Pennsylvania and serves as a member of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Homeland Security Project, co-chaired by former 9/11 commissioners, Governor Tom Kean and Congressman Lee Hamilton.
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She also oversees the business management of the office including human resources, budget development, financial execution, and performance management. Before joining the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, Hoffman was the Program Director for the Federal Energy Management Program which implements efficiency measures in the federal sector and the Program Manager for the Distributed Energy Program that developed advanced natural gas power generation and combined heat and power systems.
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Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita she was the Feeding America representative at the Joint Field Office in Baton Rouge. Currently, Natalie is the Chair of the Louisiana Food Bank Association, Co-chair of the Program Committee of the New Orleans Regional Leadership Institute and a member of Leadership Louisiana.
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Prior to that, she was Senior Natural Scientist and the Paul O' Neill Alcoa Professor of Health Policy at the RAND Corporation. There she directed RAND's public health and preparedness work as well as RAND's Center for Population Health and Health Disparities.
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With an experienced team of over 30 senior professionals, Richard covers a broad and deep homeland security portfolio that includes all-hazards preparedness, individual and community partnerships and resilience, critical infrastructure protection and resilience, domestic incident management, continuity of government, national exercises, transportation security (aviation, maritime, and ground) , piracy, information sharing, border security, and immigration.
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He served as Chair of the Emergency Management Accreditation Program and the Board of Directors of Operation Hope and the Disaster Recovery Institute International. Ellis is a past president of the International Association of Emergency Managers and has led delegations of emergency management professionals to China, Japan and other countries.
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Mayor Tait brings considerable experience to California's tenth largest city, having also served on the Anaheim Planning Commission and the Anaheim Budget Advisory Commission. He has also served as Anaheim's representative on board of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.
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Prior to OSTP Dr. Whitney was Chief Scientist for the USGS Energy Resources Team, where he managed the energy research and assessment group, conducting basic research on the geology, geochemistry, and geophysics of fossil fuels, conducting national and global assessments of oil, natural gas, and coal resources, and assessing availability and economics of fossil fuels.
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