The following faculty from The George Washington University are available to comment on the biggest humanitarian relief operation ever mounted as the result of earthquake-triggered tsunamis on December 26.

Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management

Jack Harrald
Director of The George Washington University Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management
Professor Harrald has been actively engaged in the fields of maritime safety, emergency management, and crisis management, as a researcher in his academic career and as a practitioner during his 22-year career in the U.S. Coast Guard. He has written and published in the fields of crisis management, management science, risk and vulnerability analysis, and maritime safety. Harrald is the co-coordinator of the Corporate Crisis Management Roundtable and is a founding member, director, and president of The International Emergency Management Society (TIEMS). He is also a director of the Disaster Recovery Institute. Harrald was the principle investigator for recent maritime risk studies in Prince William Sound, Alaska, the Port of New Orleans, and Washington State, and for earthquake vulnerability studies funded by the National Science Foundation and the American Red Cross. Funded by NSF quick response grants and Red Cross projects, he studied the responses to the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Loma Prieta Earthquake, Hurricane Hugo, Hurricane Andrew, and the Northridge Earthquake.
Office: (202) 994-7153
E-mail: jharrald@gwu.edu

Joseph A. Barbera
Associate Director of The George Washington University Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management
Professor Barbera was the lead medical consultant for the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the development of the National Urban Search & Rescue (US&R) Response System, and participates as a medical officer for the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance International Search & Rescue Program and the FEMA US&R Incident Support Team. He has participated in responses to hurricanes, mine disasters, earthquakes (Baguio City Philippines, Northridge California, Tou-Liu Taiwan), mass terrorism (the Oklahoma City Bombing and the 9-11 Pentagon and World Trade Center attacks), and biological terrorism.
Office: (202) 994-8424
E-mail: jbarbera@gwu.edu

For more information about GW's Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management visit www.gwu.edu/~icdrm/ .

Global Humanitarian Response

Amitai Etzioni
GW University Professor
Professor Etzioni is the author of over thirty books, including The Monochrome Society (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), The Limits of Privacy (New York: Basic Books, 1999), The New Golden Rule (New York: Basic Books, 1996), which received the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s 1997 Tolerance Book Award, The Spirit of Community (New York: Crown Books, 1993), and The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics (New York: Free Press, 1988).

Outside of academia, Etzioni's voice is frequently heard in the media. He appears often on radio and television programs, and is regularly consulted by print media as well.
Office: (202) 994-8190
E-mail: etzioni@gwu.edu
For more information about Professor Etzioni and his research visit www.gwu.edu/~icps/ .

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