CHRISTOPHER G. VOSS, CEM
Director
Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security
Montgomery County, Maryland
Mr. Christopher G. Voss currently serves as the Director of the Montgomery County, Maryland, Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security (OEMHS), with more than 18 years of experience in the fields of emergency management and disaster response. He has also served as an adjunct professor at Montgomery College and the University of Maryland University College, teaching emergency management, homeland security, and public policy leadership courses.
Mr. Voss is responsible for the OEMHS vision and implementation of the County’s emergency management and homeland security programs. These programs include the planning, training, exercise, mitigation, corrective action, community preparedness, and operations programs supporting the county’s 40+ departments; 10,000 employees; and almost 1 million residents.
Mr. Voss served as the Planning Division chief or the Emergency Operations Center manager for more than 60 activations during his career. He has developed and facilitated dozens of exercises, overseen the development of dozens of home-grown training courses (both classroom and online), and manages the county’s more than 100 emergency response plans, annexes, and standard operating procedures supporting emergency preparedness and response activities. Mr. Voss is also responsible for the county’s worker safety programs, 192 facility emergency plans, training and exercise programs, and the county’s hazmat program, reporting for 3,700+ county hazmat facilities.
An alumnus of the University of Connecticut, Mr. Voss received his B.S. in biological sciences in May 1993. In addition, he obtained his M.A. in security studies in December 2008 from the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security in Monterey, California, and an M.S. in environmental technology from the New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury, New York, in December 1998.
Mr. Voss is attending the conference to improve his understanding of other educational programs and to discuss with educators and emergency managers best practices and how to improve the education process for the next generation of emergency managers.
May 3, 2012