CHRISTOPHER WARD
Intelligence and Risk Management Analyst
Center for Terrorism and Disaster Preparedness
Fire Department City of New York
Captain Christopher Ward has served 22 years in the Fire Department of New York (FDNY), including 6years as an Intelligence Analyst and Risk Management Officerat the Center for Terrorism and Disaster Preparedness (CTDP). His duties include production of Watchline, a weekly emergency responder intelligence newsletter; managing and providing CTDP content for Diamondplate, the FDNY’s internal online training and information site; and managing and providing CTDP-based materials for FDNY company annual and officers training modules.
Captain Ward’s extensive emergency response experience includes the 9/11 World Trade Center and Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans. He is also an active member of the FDNY Incident Management Team. He holds anM.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Defense and Security) from the Naval Postgraduate School.
The FDNY CTDP recently marked the 10-year anniversary of its mission to bring significant information and intelligence; preparedness and mitigation best practices; emergency response planning; and “exercise by design” experience to the 14,000 fire and EMS members of the Nation’s largest fire department. True to its foundational principles, the CTDP has built upon its commitment to serve as a center, to bring together governmental, institutional, and private sector partners, to both foster ideas and push policy, and to facilitate higher education opportunities among the FDNY ranks in order to continue to move both the Center and the Department forward.
CTDP staff members bring both a wealth of fire service and higher education experience to their positions, which are continually enhanced through the pursuit of additional educational, travel, and training opportunities. In turn, the staff seeks to employ these proficiencies in a way that brings value to the members in the field whose mission it supports. Applying the richness of advanced educational experiences to careers in emergency services, analysts, writers, editors, content managers, exercise design experts, and instructors at the CTDP seek to provide material in a way that is relevant, enlightening, and stimulating.
As a first-time attendee at the Emergency Management Institute Higher Ed conference, CaptainWard seeks to identify a fitting place in academia to offer his experience, and fulfill a desire and goal to take part in higher education while facing the other way in the classroom.
May 27, 2015