Meet with FEMA Administrator Brock Long

Meet with FEMA Administrator Brock Long – Special Carolina Planning Student Session

Brock Long will discuss lessons learned from the 2017 hurricane season and a vision for emergency management moving forward. He will also talk about careers in Emergency Management.

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Brock Long will speak at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s campus on Monday, April 16, as part of the Coastal Resilience Center’s (CRC) Natural Hazards Resilience Speakers Series.

Administrator Long will speak about lessons learned from the 2017 hurricane season and a vision for emergency management moving forward at 4 p.m. at Wilson Library on UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus.

Long began his service as the Administrator in June 2017. He has more than 16 years of experience assisting and supporting governments at the local, state and federal levels with building robust emergency management and public health preparedness programs.

Prior to becoming Administrator, he was Executive Vice President at Hagerty Consulting, where he provided strategic direction and leadership to the firm’s full complement of emergency management programs and professionals. From 2008-2011, Administrator Long served as Director of Alabama’s Emergency Management Agency (AEMA) serving as the State Coordinating Officer for 14 disasters, including eight presidentially-declared events.

Administrator Long has also served as a FEMA Regional Hurricane Program Manager, FEMA Hurricane and Evacuation Liaison Team Leader, and statewide school safety coordinator for the Georgia Emergency Management Agency. His areas of expertise include strategic emergency operations planning, exercise, evacuation, school safety, recovery management and response logistics.