List of Participants
Business and Industry Disaster Loss
Reduction Meeting Report
March 24, 2000
Tulane University
William (Bill) Bertrand
Co-Director
Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CDMHA)
Executive Director
Payson Center for International Development and Technology Transfer
Jane A. Bullock
Chief of Staff
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Nicolas F. Colmenares, PhD
Consultant/Project Director
CDMHA
Alexander Coles, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Payson Center for International Development and Technology Transfer
Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CDMHA)
Michael Conniff
Co-Director
Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CDMHA)
Oliver R. Davidson
Private-Public Partnerships for Disaster Reduction Counterpart International
Claude de Ville de Goyet, M.D.
Pan American Health OrganizationWorld Health Organization
Isidro Fernandez Aballi
Regional Adviser Latin America and the Caribbean Information and Informatics Division UNESCO-Caracas
Joseph Buck Flinn
Chief Technology Officer
Maximum Information Technology, Inc.
Jack Fong
President
Missionary Expediters, Inc.
George D. Haddow
Deputy Chief of Staff
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Andrew J. Koval
President
COO Med Pharm
Dennis E. Kelly
President
World Trade Center of New Orleans
Steven Klein
Vice-President of Marketing and Sales
Tech Building of America, Inc.
James E. Koch, PhD
Lemay Center for Composite Technology
William (Bill) Krause
USAID, M/IRM
Debbie Larson
Policy and Program Analyst
International Activities Office, U.S Department of Commerce
Guy Lawson
Regional Information Officer
Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance
Michael H. Lowe
Chief, Readiness Branch (CEMVN-OD-R)
US Army Corps of Engineers
Edwin Lyon, PhD
Archeologist
US Army Corps of Engineers
Julie McCashin (not present)
Vice-President, Health Services Development
International SOS
Anne Moisan
Account Manager
International SOS
Rosendo (Rudy) Naranjo
Program Manager
Engineering of Space Flight, NASA HQ
David A. Novelo
C. Director de Programas
Centro de Coordinacion para la prevencion de los Desastres Naturales en America Central
(CEPREDENAC)
Jean-Luc Poncelet, MD
MPHRegional Advisor, Emergency Preparedness Program
Pan American Health Organization
Joe J. Powell, III
President
Maximum Information Technology, Inc.
Robert M. Ruiz
Senior Administrator- Flight Safety
Latin America Specialist, American Airlines
Eduardo J. Sanabria
Executive Vice-President, Tech Building of America, Inc. and President of the Committee for Business/Services
Venezuelan-American Chamber of Commerce
John A Sanbrailo
Executive Director
Pan American Development Foundation
Mark Schlakman (not present)
Senior Advisor to the Special Envoy of the President and of the Secretary of State for the Americas
The White House
Jim Walden
Director
Maximum Information Technology, Inc.
Kay Weston
National Weather Service
Brenda Barrett
Senior Program Coordinator,
Center for Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (CDMHA)
Jonathan (Jonnie) Johnson
Executive Assistant
Payson Center for International Development and Technology Transfer
Alfredo Ocampo
Payson Center for International Development and Technology Transfer