Jay Wilson

Jay Wilson is the Clackamas County Resilience Coordinator with the Department of Disaster Management and spearheads the County's efforts to reduce risks and assess hazards including flood, earthquake, wildfire, volcano, and climate change impacts. Wilson is the past-Chair (2014-17) of the Oregon Seismic Safety Policy Advisory Commission and previously worked for Oregon Emergency Management as the Earthquake, Tsunami, and Volcano Programs Coordinator and for five years as a Mitigation Reservist with Federal Emergency Management Agency Regions IX and X.

Wilson is a former Resilience Fellow with the National Institute of Standards and Technology during the development of the 2015 Community Resilience Planning Guide. He is a member of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and has completed post-earthquake reconnaissance trips to Japan (2011) and Central-Italy (2017). Wilson holds a Master of Arts in geography and a Bachelor of Arts in film and lives in Portland, Oregon.

Professional highlights:

• Provide invited testimony to the House Science Committee towards the passage of the 2005 Tsunami Warning and Education Act

• Leadership role in the development of the 2013 Oregon Resilience Plan

• Produced the award winning 2014 video documentary series on the 50th anniversary of the 1964 floods in Clackamas County, Oregon

• Serves as invited lecturer with EERI Friedman Family Visiting Professionals Program