An All-of-Government Approach to Increase Resilience for International Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive (CBRNE) Events A Workshop Summary (2014) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix C: Workshop Steering Committee Biographies
Appendix C: Workshop Steering Committee Biographies
Pages 47-52
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o gram manag at ger DARPA for nearly 5 years, where he ini w itiated and led several major Defefense Depart tment programs related to biological and chemic sensing. Prior to j s cal joining DARRPA, he wa an as assistant professor of Electric Enginee cal ering, Depar rtment of Electrical EEngineering and Compute Science (EECS)
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, she oversaw an annual budget of over $5 billion. She established the first environmental, safety, and health performance metrics for the department and, as the nation's largest energy user, led its energy, environmental, and natural resource conservation programs.
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Lesperance works with state and local emergency responders and public safety officials to understand and help prioritize their operational needs and requirements. She also builds regional coalitions of emergency management professionals to partner with the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate, the Department of Defense, and other federal agencies and manages program implementation in the field.
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, and has served on five NRC study committees including that which produced Determining Core Capabilities for Defense Chemical and Biological Defense Science and Technology, which was published in 2012. He also has served or is serving on several advisory committees for the U.S.
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In December 2007, he retired from IBM after 32 years of service that included the development and management of all worldwide crisis response team operations. He is the founder and manager of "The Crisis Response Team" -- a team of individual international specialists who have responded on-site to over 70 major crisis events in 49 countries, and is responsible for the concept creation, initial design and roll-out of the open source international emergency management software system "Sahana," considered a global standard for nationwide crisis management (www.sahanafoundation.org)
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is the program and administrative manager for the Resilience Roundtable. Since 2002, he has worked with the Disasters Roundtable and served on numerous project teams in conjunction with National Research Council studies, including toxicity pathwaybased risk assessment, the hidden costs of energy, a research and restoration plan for Western Alaska salmon, endangered species in the Klamath and Platte River Basins, risk reduction and economic benefits from controlling ozone air pollution, and environmental impacts of wind energy projects.
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