Head ShotWilliam Waugh

William L. Waugh, Jr., is a professor of Public Management and Policy in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University. He also teaches in the Executive Masters Program in Emergency and Crisis Management at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas; is a PI for the Center for Natural Disasters, Coastal Infrastructure, and Emergency Management (a DHS Center of Excellence) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and serves on the advisory board for the U.S. State Department Office of Diplomatic Security’s Senior Crisis Management Seminar for foreign officials. He is a member of the Emergency Management Accreditation Program Commission that sets standards for and accredits state and local emergency management programs. His areas of specialization are local capacity building for emergency management and Homeland Security and leadership development.

Waugh is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Emergency Management and is the author of more than one hundred articles, chapters, and reports published in the U.S., Europe, Canada, and Asia. He has published eight books on emergency management, terrorism, and state and local tax policy.

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Related Resources from Speaker

Mechanisms for Collaboration in Emergency Management: ICS, NIMS, and the Problem with Command and Control
In The Collaborative Public Manager: New Ideas for the 21st Century, 2009

 

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