How to communicate flood risks effectively

Author's Biography

Tim L. Tinker is a Senior Associate in Strategic Communications at Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. He is also Co-Director of Booz Allen’s recently created Center of Excellence for Risk and Crisis Communication. As an internationally recognised expert in risk and crisis communications, Dr Tinker works in both public and private sectors such as homeland security, emergency preparedness, public health, energy and environment, to help clients anticipate, prepare and practise science-based and system-wide risk and crisis communication.

Gerald E. Galloway, Jr. is a Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering and Affiliate Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He is also Visiting Scholar at the US Army Corps of Engineers Institute of Water Resources. During a 38-year military career, he served in the USA and overseas, retiring in 1995 as a brigadier general and Dean of Academics at the US Military Academy. He was 2007 President of the American Water Resources Association. He is a graduate of the Military Academy and holds master’s degrees from the universities of Princeton and Pennsylvania State and the US Army Command and General Staff College, as well as a doctorate in geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr Galloway is a registered professional engineer and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.