Eric Letvin is the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) deputy assistant administrator for mitigation. Letvin directs pre- and post-disaster mitigation programs that support sustainable, disaster-resilient communities. These programs include the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, the Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant Program, the Flood Mitigation Assistance grants, the Floodplain Management component of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), and the NFIP Community Rating System. In addition, Letvin leads the hazard mitigation disaster workforce cadre and overall disaster operations for the agency’s Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration. Letvin was appointed to the senior executive service in 2016.
Before joining FEMA, Letvin was the director of hazard mitigation and risk reduction policy with the National Security Council. He coordinated the development and effective delivery of mitigation capabilities identified in the National Preparedness Goal and advised the president in the mitigation mission area. Letvin led interagency efforts to develop executive orders which resulted in the resiliency of the built environment to flood, earthquake, and wildfire hazards. Before serving at the National Security Council, Letvin was the Disaster and Failure Studies Program director within the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Engineering Laboratory. Before coming to NIST, Letvin was leader of the Infrastructure Research and Resiliency Team in the Homeland Security Group of AECOM. Letvin holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in environmental engineering from Syracuse University and a JD from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.