Roy Wright
Roy Wright leads Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Risk Analysis Division programs that manage the initial pieces of the mitigation lifecycle—flood hazard identification, assessment tools, and multihazard mitigation planning—along with the National Dam Safety and National Hurricane Programs. The largest of these responsibilities includes the mapping program of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The $1 billion map modernization effort is on target to deliver digital flood insurance rate maps to 92 percent of the nation’s population. The successor program, Risk MAP (Mapping, Assessment, and Planning), expands on this mission: delivering quality data that increases public awareness and leads to action that reduces risk to life and property. Wright serves as the program executive for these risk analysis programs.
Wright joined FEMA as the deputy director of risk analysis in November 2007. Before joining FEMA, he served as a project executive with Coray Gurnitz Consulting, where he led the firm’s FEMA project teams for five years. In that capacity, he advised FEMA through the ramp-up of the Map Modernization program; guided the integrated team that redesigned mitigation grant programs to create the Unified Hazard Mitigation Assistance strategy; and facilitated the Mitigation Directorate’s transformation—the creation of the risk analysis, risk reduction, and risk insurance business lines.
In the late 90s, Wright served as a policy advisor to the secretary of interior, coordinating policy formation and implementation related to the department’s land protection initiatives. In this role, he developed broad consensus with state and local officials, tribes, ranchers, environmentalists, and oil and gas industry officials.
Wright holds a master’s of public administration from The George Washington University and a bachelor’s in political science from Azusa Pacific University.