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What Dave Komendat, Boeing CSO and ISC West Keynote Speaker, Says Was His Hardest Career Challenge

Security Industry Association

The challenge he faced was even more difficult than what he encountered after Japan’s Fukushima earthquake of 2011. The next longest, sustained challenge I have led was our internal response to the Japan earthquake and subsequent nuclear event at Fukushima Daiichi in 2011, where we were engaged for roughly eight weeks.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

In my role leading the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University’s Climate School, as well as through other positions, I have dedicated my career to fostering the impact of disaster research in the fields of policy and practice. The Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA; P.L. 1] [link]. [2]