Institute of Civil Protection and
Emergency Management
Uniting Academics with Professionals to
Promote Excellence in Civil Protection
Hon. Baroness Frances D'Souza CMGFrom 1977 to 1983 she was a senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. Baroness D'Souza founded and directed the International Disaster Institute, based in London, and from 1978-1984 she was Editor of 'Disasters', the senior journal in the field of disaster risk reduction.
David Alexander is Professor of Risk and Disaster Reduction at University College London. His books include "Natural Disasters", "Confronting Catastrophe", "Principles of Emergency Planning and Management", "Recovery from Disaster" (with Ian Davis) and "How to Write an Emergency Plan".
A physics graduate with a PhD (University of London) in the crystal chemistry of apatites, the major mineral component of bones and teeth, Eric was a lecturer in Dental Anatomy at the London Hospital Medical College (LHMC) before becoming the Director of the Civil Emergency Management Centre (CEMC) at the University of Hertfordshire (UH) until his 2003 retirement.
A former soldier, senior police officer and pseudo-academic, Tony was latterly the Associate Director of the Resilience Centre at Cranfield University based at the UK Defence Academy at Shrivenham for a number of years where he taught on a number of Masters’ programmes, including the Master of Defence Administration (MDA), MSc in Global Security and its distance learning counterpart, the MSc in International Security; and the MSc in Disaster Management and its sequel, the MSc in Resilience. For six years, from 1998 to 2003, he was Director of the annual International Disaster Management Course.
Passionate about ICPEM’s vision – to be an independent collaborating forum from which emergency professionals, academics and business will collectively champion civil protection and emergency management – Sarah’s active association commenced in 2018. She delivered the first annual conference along with the Institute’s Journal, Alert, and newsletter, all of which had been dormant for three years. More recently as a key member of the Board of Trustees, she has worked to secure the future of the Institute in the absence of the Executive Council.
Tony Moore, see above.
After a successful career in the army during which he was awarded an MBE, Richard joined the Bournemouth University Disaster Management Centre (BUDMC) in 2002, becoming its Director in May 2005. Since then, the Disaster Management Centre has grown considerably, now employing six members of staff and six associate members.
Chris is currently NHS Resilience Manager and EPRR Lead for a Sussex based NHS trust and has been in post since August 2018. Prior to this he worked for NHS Blood and Transplant in a senior technical role.
An experienced emergency manager, Malcolm has recently retired as the Head of Risk Management and Emergency Planning at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, but is undertaking the Trust Covid 19 Organisational Learning report.
Paul Collard, is the ICPEM Treasurer and Membership Secretary, and an ICPEM Trustee. He completed his 32 year career with Sussex Police in May 2019 finishing as the Emergency Planning Manager and Brexit Coordinator for both Surrey & Sussex Police. He is now the Emergency Planning Manager for Mid Sussex District Council.
I am a retired Police Officer having served with the British Transport Police (BTP) across the United Kingdom beginning at Carlisle as a Police Cadet and eventually retiring in 2003 as Chief Inspector Operations.
Tony’s experience in emergency management extends over 40 years. Service in the RAF was followed by 32 years in the British Transport Police, then roles as Head of Regional Resilience for South West England, and Head of UK Emergency Response for the British Red Cross.
Mollie is supporting the institute in helping create a bigger impact in its work through brand development, social media, communications, and marketing strategy.
Burcak is currently the Director of the MSc in Disaster Management and Resilience, a Research Associate at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at the University of Coventry. She is a former Director of the Disaster Management Centre at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara.
Based in Brussels, Lina provides consultancy in the areas of security, risk and crisis management to a number of organisations within both the public and private sectors.
Alex is Head of Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response for NHS England and NHS Improvement in the South West, where he works with his team to ensure the emergency preparedness of all NHS organisations in England's largest geographical region. Alex specifically leads a variety of work programmes including Communicable Disease and Pandemics, Excess and Mass Casualties, Learning and Improving, and personnel professional development.
Dave has operated in the field of emergency management for over thirty years, developing a high level of expertise in dealing with a wide variety of incidents / emergency situations at Operational, Tactical and Strategic levels.
John was a London Borough Emergency Planning Officer for 15 years, during which he was also the Chair of the North East London Emergency Planning Group (NELEPG) and Chair of his Council’s Corporate Security Group. He was also one of the out-of-hours Duty Emergency Response Officers, responding to all types of emergencies arising in the Borough. A high point of his career was being selected to represent the London Emergency Planning Officers on a visit to Buckingham Palace where he met Her Majesty the Queen and other members of the royal family.
Richard served in the London Ambulance Service for 33 years and the Health Protection Agency for 2 years. He was a founder member of the LAS Emergency Planning Unit. He attended events and major incidents in London either as Ambulance Silver or as the Ambulance Tactical Advisor. He was also a member of various safety groups including Wembley Stadium and Heathrow Airport.