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Dr. Regardt Ferreira

Dr. Regardt Ferreira
Director of the Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy at the University of Tulane. 

Ferreira is the Editor of the Traumatology Journal and the recipient of grants from, among others, UNICEF, FEMA, Gates Foundation, and the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Phuong Pham

Dr. Phuong Pham 
Director of the Program on Evaluation and Implementation Science in the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School  

Pham’s previous appointments include Director of Research at UC Berkely’s Human Rights Center and Associate Professor at Tulane’s Payson Center for International Development.  Pham is the co-founder of the Peacebuilding.org website. 

Dr. William Ellis Bertrand

Dr. William Ellis Bertrand 
Wisner Professor of Public Health at Tulane University.  

Bertrand academic appointments have included the Harvard School of Public Health, the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and the University of Kinsasha, Zaire.  Bertand’s relevant consultancy experience includes the World Bank, UNAIDS Evaluation Division, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Dr. Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob

Dr. Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob 
Visiting International Scholar at Dickinson College.  

Previous academic appointments include New York University (Center on International Cooperation) and American University of Nigeria (Program Chair, Communication and Multimedia Design).  Jacob’s relevant advisory and consultancy experience includes the United Nations (Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions), United States Institute of Peace, World Bank, and the United States Agency for International Development.

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Dr. Benjamin R. Edwards
Moraine Chair in Arctic Studies and Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Dickinson College

Edwards has led numerous educational and research expeditions to the Arctic and does research on volcanoes, glaciers and natural hazards. Edwards previous appointments include the School of Environmental Science, University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom; Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan; the Geological Survey of Canada in Vancouver, British Columbia; and the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, B.C. Edwards’s relevant teaching includes courses on natural disasters, volcanoes, and the Arctic. He has conducted research on volcanoes and glaciers in British Columbia, Nunavut, Alaska, Iceland, Russia, Peru, Chile and Montserrat (W.I.).

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Dr. Marcus M. Key, Jr.
Joseph Priestley Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Earth Sciences at Dickinson College

Key’s previous appointments include the Arava Institute of Environmental Studies in Ketura, Israel; University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom; J. W. Valentine Visiting Professor at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand; Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, IL; Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland; Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. Key’s relevant teaching includes courses on natural disasters including a field based course focused on the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, Hurricane Sandy in the U.S. as well as the Tohoku earthquake/tsunami and Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan.

Co-Director

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Michael Beevers
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Dickinson College and Co-Director of the Master's Program in Managing Complex Disasters 

Beevers specializes in global environmental politics with an emphasis on the linkages between natural resources, security, conflict and peace. His work appears in numerous book chapters and journals including Global Governance, International Peacekeeping, African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review and The Extractive Industries and Society, among others. His book, Natural Resource Governance and Peacebuilding in the Aftermath of Armed Conflict: Sierra Leone and Liberia (Palgrave-MacMillan) was published in 2018. He has worked as a research associate at Princeton University and as a consultant for the United Nations Environment Programme and World Resources Institute. He was also a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger.

 

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