President and CEO

MADHU BERIWAL

President and CEO

IEM

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Ms. Madhu Beriwal is President and CEO of IEM. She has more than 25 years of experience in disaster and emergency management, homeland security, national defense, and the use of information technology to resolve complex protection issues.

Ms. Beriwal founded IEM in 1985 to help focus public protection activities on outcomes that truly matter and to integrate scientific data and objectivity into assessing whether those outcomes are achieved. Today, IEM provides technical and analytical services to the Nation’s foremost military and civilian protection agencies, and its projects span more than 47 States and territories.

For more than two decades, Ms. Beriwal has been dedicated to the use of technology to enhance preparedness and response. She was involved with some of the earliest efforts by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to integrate technology and emergency management, and she taught courses in evacuation planning and the use of computers in emergency management at FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute.

Ms. Beriwal led an effort to develop response tools for a public protection program mandated by the Environmental Protection Agency after the Bhopal disaster in 1984. Since then, she has played a key role in developing requirements analysis for multi-million dollar emergency management software tools, analyzing and recommending information technology staffing, and developing architecture and tools for simulation-based acquisition—all for protection programs with lifecycle budgets ranging to more than $2 billion. She has provided strategic direction for numerous modeling and simulation studies whose results drive policy, strategy, and investment decisions at the Federal, State, and local levels.

Ms. Beriwal is a guest lecturer at the Homeland Security Executive Leadership Program at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security in Monterey, California, and is a frequent speaker at conferences such as the International Association of Emergency Managers Conference and the World Conference on Disaster Management. She is a member of the prestigious Army Science Board and a former member of the Defense Science Board’s Task Force for Intelligence-Gathering on Terrorism, created at the request of the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency to address counter-terrorism intelligence requirements for homeland defense.

Ms. Beriwal holds a master’s degree in urban planning (transportation and land use) and a bachelor’s degree in geography and economics.

May 6, 2009