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LU CANTON
Lucien
G. Canton, CEM, CPP CBCP has over 30 years experience in hazard and
risk analysis, loss reduction, and emergency planning. As the
Director of Emergency Services for the City of San Francisco from 1996
to 2004, he was responsible for coordinating the City's emergency
management program and served as a policy advisor on emergency
management and Homeland Security issues to Mayor Willie L. Brown, Jr.
Under his direction, the City increased its overall response
capabilities through modernization of the emergency operations center
and the institution of an aggressive exercise program. Mr. Canton was
instrumental in the development of the City's terrorism response
capability and coordinated major response plans for the millennium and
the electrical energy crisis. A strong supporter of volunteerism, he
expanded the role of volunteers under the City's emergency plan by
developing mutual support linkages among various programs and adding key
agencies to the Disaster Council. During his tenure with San Francisco,
Mr. Canton successfully lobbied for the adoption of national standards
for the City’s emergency management program and revised the City’s
Administrative Code to incorporate the Standardized Emergency Management
System. His commitment to professional standards transformed the Office
of Emergency Services into a highly credible organization and a leading
player in regional emergency planning.
Prior to his appointment, Mr. Canton served as an Emergency Management
Specialist with the Federal Emergency Management Agency from 1990 to
1996. He assisted in the development of Federal disaster response
capability, to include tactical and strategic planning, inter-agency
coordination, and field operations. In addition to his duties as a
planner, Mr. Canton served as a senior staff officer on all major
disasters in Region IX including the Loma Prieta earthquake, Hurricane
Iniki, the Northridge earthquake, the Southern California Wildfires, and
the California Winter Storms of 1995. His experience includes extensive
deployment on typhoon relief operations in the Pacific Trust
Territories and the Caribbean and assignment to an elite National
Emergency Response Team. Mr. Canton also served as the Chief of the
Hazard Mitigation Branch for Region IX with responsibility for
administering post-disaster mitigation programs. Because of his
extensive disaster experience, Mr. Canton served on national task forces
and working groups developing the Federal Response Plan and is the co-author of key components of the Federal disaster intelligence system.
Mr. Canton served with the US Army in Germany from 1975 to 1980 and held
a variety of positions in the US and abroad in the private security
industry from 1980 to 1990. His credentials include certification by the
International Association of Emergency Managers as a Certified
Emergency Manager, designation as a Certified Protection Professional by
the American Society for Industrial Security, International, and
recognition by the Disaster Recovery Institute, International as a
Certified Business Continuity Professional. He is also a certified
assessor for the Emergency Management Accreditation Program. Mr. Canton
is the author of Emergency Management: Concepts and Strategies for Effective Programs
and of numerous articles on emergency management and security issues.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from the University of
San Francisco and a Master of Business Administration in International
Management degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in
Glendale, Arizona.
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