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WILLIAM WAUGH
William L. Waugh, Jr., is Professor of Public Administration, Urban Studies, and Political Science in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. He taught at Mississippi State University and Kansas State University before joining the public administration and political science faculties at GSU in 1985. He teaches graduate courses in public policy, administrative theory, organizational behavior, disaster management, public personnel administration, and environmental policy. He also serves as coordinator for the certificate in disaster management program, the certificate in natural resource management program, and the GSU Chapter of Pi Alpha Alpha, the national honor society in public affairs and administration.
Dr. Waugh is internationally recognized for his work on disaster policy and local and regional capacity-building to deal with hazards and disasters. He is the author of Living with Hazards, Dealing with Disasters: An Introduction to Disaster Management (2000), Terrorism and Emergency Management (1990), and International Terrorism: How Nations Respond to Terrorists (1982); and the coeditor of Disaster Management in the US and Canada (1996), Cities and Disaster (1990), and Handbook of Emergency Management (1990), as well as over a hundred articles, book chapters, essays, and reports published in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia.
Dr. Waugh has served as chair of the American Society for Public Administration’s Section on Emergency and Crisis Management three times and is currently a member of the International Association of Emergency Managers, as well as other national and international professional organizations. Currently he serves on the CEM Commission (International Association of Emergency Managers) that oversees the Certified Emergency Manager credentialing process and on the EMAP Commission (Council of State Governments) that sets standards for and accredits state and local emergency management programs.
Dr. Waugh has been a consultant to federal, state, and local government agencies; international organizations; nonprofit organizations; and private firms on terrorism, the management of large-scale disasters, local government administration, strategic management, strategic planning, emergency planning, and professional development. He has served on expert panels on hospital surge capacity (Pfizer), the Homeland Security Advisory System (Partnership for Public Warning), applying natural hazard lessons to Homeland Security (National Academies), using community rating systems to encourage risk reduction (FEMA/ISO/ICMA), emergency management education (University of Colorado/NSF), emergency management and Homeland Security (George Washington University/NSF), and Homeland Security education and training (National Academies).
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