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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Session Moderators
Pages 145-160

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From page 145...
... He is a former president of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Boy Scouts of America. He is a current or former member of the Board of Directors of ConocoPhillips, Black and Decker, Procter & Gamble, and Lockheed Martin, and is a member of the board of trustees of Colonial Williamsburg, a trustee emeritus of Johns Hopkins, and a former member of the board of trustees of Princeton University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
From page 146...
... He was on the Board of Governors of IIT Chennai and Delhi, Bharat Electronics Limited and the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. Currently he is on the Data Security Council of India, Central Bank of India, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, CDOTAlcatel Research Center at Chennai, Center for Development of Advanced Computing, Indian Statistical Institute of Kolkata, IIT Kharagpur, and the Joint Advisory Board of Carnegie Mellow University at Qatar.
From page 147...
... , and Georgetown University, and now teaches in the South Asian program of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Cohen has served on numerous study groups examining Asia sponsored by the Asia Society, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Asia Foundation, and the National Bureau of Asian Research.
From page 148...
... Gardner's areas of knowledge and expertise include: vulnerability assessments of energy and nuclear facilities; high-security system design; familiarity with security system technologies, regulations, and operations; management of major security system implementation projects; insider threat analysis and mitigation; security system performance testing; and security systems training and regulatory development. Gardner has worked on high-security systems for more than 39 years.
From page 149...
... Holmes has 30 years of international management experience in a variety of positions that include chief operating officer, Fortune 500 executive, senior level Coast Guard officer, and maritime security specialist. He most recently served as a principal and chief operating officer of the Marsec Group, a full-service security consult
From page 150...
... Coast Guard in 2003 following 27 years of distinguished service in a variety of posts that included commanding officer, officer in charge of marine inspection and captain of the port for the Los Angeles Long Beach port complex. As captain of the port, Holmes was at the helm on September 11, 2001, and has been credited with swift and decisive actions that ultimately led to the creation of a number of national security initiatives, including the Maritime Transportation Security Act, Area Maritime Security Committee, and National Sea Marshal Program.
From page 151...
... He has served at Narora Atomic Power Station, HFCL Barauni, EDP Cell of CISF HQ, National Industrial Security Academy Hyderabad, Uri and Dulhasti Hydel Power Stations in Jammu and Kashmir, and Mumbai Port Trust. He has participated in numerous disaster management courses in India and abroad.
From page 152...
... . He has carried out more than 400 audits of process safety, and environmental management systems in both continuous and batch processes, chaired many Hazard and Operability Analysis studies and conducted more than 350 training sessions on management systems for process safety.
From page 153...
... He joined the Indian police service in 1986, and until recently he served in the state of Gujarat. He completed the Advance Physical Security Training Programme at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia.
From page 154...
... She previously served as deputy group leader for the LANL's Advanced Nuclear Technology Group, helping manage an operational Cat I nuclear facility. She has served several assignments at the International Safeguards Division at DOE/National Nuclear Security Administration Headquarters and at the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site.
From page 155...
... After retirement from government service, Ramamurthy, in addition to continuing research in nuclear physics in the Inter-University Accelerator Centre in New Delhi, has also been actively involved in human resource development in all aspects of nuclear research and applications. Ramamurthy is also a chair of the Recruitment and Assessment Board for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and a member of the National Security Advisory Board.
From page 156...
... A career officer of the Indian Police Service, Sandhu put in 39½ years after his initial appointment in July 1973. During that extended tenure, the first 5 years were spent in field-level policing, involving prevention of crime, investigation, detection and prosecution in specific jurisdictions in the eastern Indian province of Bihar.
From page 157...
... The reformatory changes introduced as additional director general of police, Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force in the planning, execution, and detection have been widely appreciated by the residents of Bangalore and also by distinguished and eminent personalities such as Sri Santhosh Hedge, former Lokayukta of Karnataka. He was awarded the Commendation Disc and Commendation Roll of the Director General, Sashastra Seema Bal, in 2006.
From page 158...
... As a core group member, he has been associated with NDMA since its inception, and has contributed to the formulation of the National Guidelines on Biological Disaster Management, Medical Preparedness and Mass Casualty Management, Management of the Dead in the Aftermath of Disaster, NDMA-World Health Organization Action Plan on Pandemic Preparedness Beyond Health, and Plan to Counter the Threats to the Municipal Water Supply and Water Reservoirs. In addition to NDMA, he actively contributes to biorisk management capacity-building programs of DRDO, the Indian Council of Agriculture Research, the National Institute of Disaster Management, and the State Administrative Training Institutes.
From page 159...
... She was a scientist at the Indian Space Research Organization, where she carried out studies to evaluate the usefulness of satellite remote sensing for monitoring natural resources and natural disasters with special reference to India. She worked as a principal scientific officer at DST, where she was involved with the setting up of Natural Resources Data Base centers in the districts of Karnataka.
From page 160...
... Previously, Verghese held the position of head and principal scientist of entomology division at the Indian Institute of Horticultural Research in Bangalore. At the time, he was also the chief editor of Pest Management in Horticultural Ecosystems and member of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Phytosanitary Committee of Asia Pacific Plant Protection Commission.


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