Amidu Kalokoh

Amidu Kalokoh is a PhD candidate in Public Policy and Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). His research intersects emergency management and homeland security, criminal justice, and public management, with current projects on correctional emergency management, institutional and community hazard preparedness and recovery, environmental justice, and Artificial Intelligence in public policy and administration. He uses quantitative, qualitative, and geospatial methods. He is a published scholar and reviewer for numerous journals, including Risk, Hazards and Crisis in Public Policy, Natural Hazards Review, and the Journal of Money Laundering Control.

He is a Graduate Research Associate with the Research Institute for Social Equity at VCU, a William A. Anderson Fund for Hazard & Disaster Mitigation Education and Research fellow, a recipient of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) Founders’ Fellow, and an alumnus of Coastal Hazard, Equity, Economic Prosperity, and Resilience. He has also served as the Secretary of the ASPA Central Virginia Chapter.

Kalokoh is a former security analyst with the Office of the President of Sierra Leone, where he produced reports on national and international security. Some of these reports address transnational organized crime, such as money laundering, terrorism, drug and human trafficking, corruption, election security, and environmental safety. He coordinated emergency and disaster response and recovery efforts, including those for Ebola, the 2017 mudslide disaster, and the floods in Sierra Leone.