Krause Wilson
Director of Disaster Response and Recovery Programs
With 10+ years of experience in disaster response and recovery, Krause Wilson has overseen multi-tiered deployments of personnel to support response at the Federal, state, and local levels for more than 15 Presidentially-declared disasters, including Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 and Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Jeanne, and Ivan in 2004. He has managed multiple catastrophic response planning projects across the U.S., which are focused on developing effective, integrated regional response plans. These projects involve hundreds of participants from Federal, state, and local levels.
With a background in statistics and decision support, Mr. Wilson focuses on the use of objective measures to analyze and improve response. He played a key role in the development of state-of-the-art modeling and simulation tools that combine risk management with social behavior theory to measure the effectiveness of disaster response strategies. He has conducted numerous scientific analyses of response and response improvement strategies involving hundreds of millions in funding decisions. His work has helped Federal, state, and local agencies address the challenge of optimizing limited funding to achieve maximum protection.
Mr. Wilson has supported improvements in response for the Naval Surface Warfare Center, the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency, FEMA, the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program, more than 20 state governments, and more than 1,000 local governments. He is a member of the International Association of Emergency Managers, the American Statistical Association, the Society of Risk Assessment, and former Chair of the NBC Defense Panel for the Military Operations Research Society. He holds a Masters of Applied Statistics degree and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics.
