Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability

Erwann Michel-Kerjan is Faculty Research Fellow at the Wharton School's Center for Risk Management and Decision Processes, a center with nearly 20 years of experience in understanding executive decision processes and developing strategies for dealing with low probability-high consequence events. He joined The Wharton School in September 2002 where his research since has been focused on strategic crisis management and on managing and financing extreme events, primarily terrorism. He is also acting as program manager of the Wharton-Columbia Radiant Trust, a joint initiative of the Wharton School and the Columbia Business School, established in partnership with Lockheed Martin Corporation and the US Department of Homeland Security.Branscomb, Lewis M. is the author of 'Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability', published 2006 under ISBN 9780521685726 and ISBN 0521685729.