Michael J. Armstrong, J.D.

International Code Council
500 New Jersey Ave. NW, 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20001

Phone: +1 (202) 370-1800 ext. 6250860
Fax: +1 (202) 783-2348
Email:mja@gwu.edu

By appointment only

• J.D., Pepperdine University School of Law
• B.A., English, University of Colorado at Boulder
• B.S., Journalism, University of Colorado at Boulder

• Senior Vice President, International Code Council, 2007-present
• Vice President, ICF International, 2001-2006
• Associate Director for Mitigation (Senate-confirmed Presidential appointee), Federal Emergency Management Agency,1997-2001
• Region VIII Director (Presidential appointee), Federal Emergency Management Agency, 1994-1997
• Deputy Director, Colorado Governor’s Office of Energy Conservation, 1993-1994
• Executive Director, Colorado Democratic Party, 1992-1993
• Assistant City Attorney, Aurora, Colorado, 1981-1991

• Chair, District of Columbia Preservation League “Green Task Force,” 2008-present
• ICC: Development of International Green Construction Code project, 2009-present; organization of Disaster Support Initiative including code official response teams and mitigation assessment teams, 2007-present; Oversight for corporate re-engineering of professional development and outreach programs, 2007-present.
• ICFI: Clients included the Governor of Louisiana (post-Katrina rebuilding); the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (food safety preparedness); the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (critical infrastructure protection, capabilities planning); and the metropolitan areas of Seattle, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. (homeland security strategic planning, exercises, and public/private partnerships).
• FEMA: Managed national programs addressing risk reduction including pre- and post- disaster grant programs, ongoing oversight for the nation’s flood, hurricane and earthquake programs, support for academic and building science research, and the launch of initiatives in pre-disaster mitigation, floodplain mapping modernization, tornado “safe room” technology, public/private partnerships, cost-benefit analysis. Also provided oversight for FEMA response, recovery, mitigation and preparedness activities in a six-state region, and headed efforts to reinvent the agency’s community outreach and employee performance activities.

• “Public-Private Power,” Oilweek Magazine, December 2006
• Safe Growth Roundtable, American Planning Association, Planning Magazine, June 2005
• “Review of NASA’s Earth Science Enterprise Applications Program Plan,” National Research Council, Michael Armstrong, Committee Chair, National Academy of Sciences, 2002
• “Urban Hazard Mitigation: Increasing Human Security through Re-Assessing the Steps Toward Livable Communities,” Proceedings, Forum on Urban Hazards, John Jay College, New York City, New York, 2002
• “The Political Economy of Hazards,” Environmental Hazards 2, Elsevier Science Ltd., 2001
• “Back to the Future: Charting the Course for Project Impact,” Natural Hazards Review, Vol. 1, No. 3, August 2000, American Society of Civil Engineers and Natural Hazards and Research Applications Information Center of the University of Colorado