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Keynote Speaker : Tina Gabrielli : Director Risk Management and Analysis Office, DHS Plenary Speakers : Jeff Stehm: Associate Director Federal Reserve Board Brandon Wales : Deputy Director HITRAC, Deputy Director IASD, DHS Allen Brown : Microsoft
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Risk Symposium 2008
Effective Risk Communication: Tools, Theory and Applications
March 11-13 2008, La Fonda on the Plaza, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Keynote Speaker
Tina Gabrielli
Director: Risk Management and Analysis at DHS, Washington, DC
Tina W. Gabbrielli is Director of the Office of Risk Management and Analysis (RMA), National Protection and Programs Directorate, at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. She leads the Department’s efforts to develop, implement and share a common framework to address the overall analysis and management of homeland security risk. Her office advances the Secretary’s risk education focus and helps ensure decisions regarding policies, programs and resources across the Department are driven by a consistent and purposeful risk-informed methodology.
Prior to her current position, Ms. Gabbrielli was the Senior Director for Contingency Planning and Field-Based Preparedness in the National Preparedness Task Force at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. She was responsible for drafting the Department’s Pandemic Influenza Plan, DHS’ first department-wide contingency plan. In addition to her planning responsibilities, Ms. Gabbrielli co-chaired the National Response Plan and National Incident Management System review and revision process, and managed the Department’s Special Events and Principal Federal Officials (PFO) programs, including all training, coordination and support for the PFOs. In a prior position, Ms. Gabbrielli coordinated the Office of Infrastructure Protection’s incident management mission, led the development of the IP Incident Management Cell and provided operational support to field elements during catastrophic events.
When Ms. Gabbrielli first came to DHS, she served as the Director of Intelligence Coordination and Special Infrastructure Protection Programs in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection. She was responsible for coordinating intelligence at a variety of levels, including preparing executive briefings for the White House. She also served as the Department’s Program Director for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.
Prior to joining DHS, Ms. Gabbrielli was an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. As an AUSA, she developed and chaired the Anti-Terrorism Task Force for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Additionally, she organized and oversaw the District’s response to the September 11, 2001 attacks. In 2002, she represented the U.S. Department of Justice in Baku, Azerbaijan in a meeting with high-ranking government officials on terrorism legislation and related matters.
Ms. Gabbrielli served in several other positions as an AUSA, including Chief of Terrorism, Chief of Violent Crimes, Chief of Major Crimes, and Deputy Chief and Acting Chief of the President’s Drug Task Force and Narcotics Section. Her work has included domestic and international terrorism, chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear issues, narco-terrorism, agri-terrorism, risk assessments, indications and warnings, and terrorist tradecraft.
Plenary Speakers
Jeff Stehm
Associate Director Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC
Jeff Stehm is an Associate Director at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where he is responsible for analyzing credit, liquidity, and operational risks and risk management issues, liquidity flows, and clearance and settlement interdependencies associated with systemically-important payment and settlement systems. Mr. Stehm’s responsibilities include oversight and policy issues associated with the Fedwire funds service, the Fedwire securities service, and the Federal Reserve’s national settlement service as well as private-sector systemically important payment and settlement systems. Mr. Stehm serves on various Federal Reserve, inter-agency, international, and industry groups concerned with payment and settlement issues, and has written or contributed to a variety of studies on the payment system. Mr. Stehm’s career spans twenty-five years at the Federal Reserve Board, including assignments in the Board’s Wholesale Payments, Retail Payments, Payment System Risk, Payment Systems Studies, Fiscal Agency, and Clearance and Settlement Systems programs.
Brandon Wales
Deputy Director HITRAC, Deputy Director IASD at DHS
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Allen Brown
Microsoft
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