On the first edition of "Disaster Relief for America", hosts Tim Karney and Tom Moran interview Bob Kolasky, the Director of Strategy and Policy for the DHS Off...
ON THIS WEEK’S SHOW: On the first edition “Disaster Relief for America”, hosts Tim Karney and Tom Moran interview Bob Kolasky, the Director of Strategy and Policy for the DHS Office of Infrastructure Protection, and Harriet Tregoning, the Director HUD’s Office of Economic Resilience, about their office’s current initiatives.
GUEST BIOGRAPHIES:Bob Kolasky(courtesy of the Department of Homeland Security) Bob Kolasky currently serves as the Director of Strategy and Policy for the DHS Office of Infrastructure Protection, where he leads strategic initiatives on behalf of the Assistant Secretary to help IP achieve organizational priorities, including IP’s activities to enhance its capabilities to integrate cyber and physical risk management efforts with critical infrastructure owners and operators, and approach to improve infrastructure resilience in the face of terrorism, climate change and other risks. Among his current efforts are work to institutionalize a set of Infrastructure Resilience Guidelines into national policy and efforts to work with the critical infrastructure community to develop a set of National Priorities for critical infrastructure security and resilience. Previously, he served as Director of DHS’ Integrated Task Force to implement Presidential Policy Directive 21 on Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience, as well as Executive Order 13636 on Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. In this role, he was responsible for leading the delivery of the Department’s requirements to the White House, including the update to the National Infrastructure Protection Plan and the growth of voluntary partnerships to support cyber security risk management and information sharing. Mr. Kolasky previously served as the Assistant Director for Risk Governance and Support at the in the Office of Risk Management Analysis at DHS where he was responsible for developing policies and processes to enable risk-informed strategic decisions by DHS. In addition, he led the conduct of the first ever Strategic National Risk Assessment, in partnership with FEMA, as part of the implementation of Presidential Policy Directive 8. Mr. Kolasky’s joined the Federal government in 2008 after six years as a management consultant. He graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School in 2002. While at the Kennedy School, Mr. Kolasky concentrated on Business and Government Policy and Microeconomics. Prior to attending HKS, Mr. Kolasky was a journalist and an entrepreneur. He helped start two of the first public policy sites on the Internet and served as the Managing Editor for IntellectualCapital.com and the Director of Content for Policy.com. Mr. Kolasky graduated from Dartmouth College in 1994. He lives in Washington, D.C with his wife, Carrie, and three children. Harriet Tregoning(courtesy of the HUD Office of Public Affairs) Harriet Tregoning is the Director HUD’s Office of Economic Resilience, where her Office will help cities, counties and towns across the country build a strong foundation for a diverse and prosperous economy based on enhancing community quality of place, economic opportunity, fiscal stability, transportation choice, and affordability. She was recently the Director of the District of Columbia Office of Planning, where she worked to make DC a walkable, bikeable, eminently livable, globally competitive and sustainable city. Prior to this she was the director of the Governors’ Institute on Community Design and co-founder, with former Maryland Governor Glendening, and executive director of the Smart Growth Leadership Institute. She served Governor Glendening as both Secretary of Planning and then as the nation’s first state-level Cabinet Secretary for Smart Growth. For more information on HUD’s disaster resilience work:
