George Haddow
Senior Fellow
Areas of Expertise
Biography
George Haddow is a founding partner of Bullock and Haddow LLC, a disaster management consulting firm. Mr. Haddow was appointed to serve by President Bill Clinton for eight years in the Office of the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as the White House Liaison and the Deputy Chief of Staff. Mr. Haddow currently serves as a Senior Fellow at Tulane University's Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy (DRLA). He is a co-author of several university textbooks including: Introduction to Emergency Management (6th Edition), Introduction to Homeland Security (5th Edition), Disaster Communications in a Changing Media World (2nd Edition) and Living with Climate Change: How Communities are Thriving and Surviving in a Changing Climate.
Articles
Challenges Facing Emergency Managers Today
2019
By its very definition, emergency management is a field that deals constantly with challenges. Back in 2005, we co-authored an article that examined some specific “critical obstacles” facing emergency managers at the time, including: an imbalance of focus between homeland security and natural disaster management, the challenge of involving the public in preparedness planning, the lack of an effective partnership with the business community, cuts to EM funding, and questions surrounding the evolving organizational structure of the nation’s emergency management system...
Media Appearances
LIVING FEMA more likely to buy out flood-prone homes in wealthy counties
Congress boosted FEMA’s share of its biggest buyout program from 50 percent to 75 percent that year, said George Haddow, who teaches at Tulane University’s Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy and was not part of the study. Haddow, who was White House liaison to FEMA during President Bill Clinton’s two terms, said there’s never enough money to buy all the buildings people want to sell...
Puerto Rico acknowledges much higher death toll from Hurricane Maria: 1,427 fatalities
The new death toll estimate places Maria in the category of historic deadly hurricanes such as Hurricane Katrina, which claimed 1,800 lives after slamming into the Gulf Coast in 2005, said George Haddow, a senior fellow at Tulane University’s Disaster Resilience Leadership Academy and a former senior official with the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the Clinton administration...
