Joseph W. Pfeifer Biography

Joseph Pfeifer is a Senior Fellow with the Program on Crisis Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and teaches in several of its Executive Education programs including Leadership in Crises the General and Flag Officer Homeland Security Executive Seminar Leadership in Homeland Security and China Crisis Management. He has also led a research team from HKS and partner organizations to examine the response to the Nov. 13 2015 Paris attacks. His focus is on international collaboration across major cities for disaster preparedness and crisis leadership in organizations during extreme events. Pfeifer has appeared in major media interviews and has spoken at conferences at the United Nations in New York and Geneva the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul the Wharton Leadership Conference in Philadelphia the National Guard Joint Senior Leaders Conference in Washington D.C. and other major events. He has taught senior leaders from around the world about crisis leadership disaster management critical decision-making counterterrorism and crisis communication at extreme events. He has conducted hundreds of simulations to test public and private sector response capabilities capacity and coordination. In addition he has advised fire departments law enforcement agencies EMS hospitals building owners and managers military organizations and others within the U.S. and abroad on managing a network response to large scale events. He has testified in front of the U.S. Congress about the threats cities will face in the future.

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