Full Name
Glen Woodbury
Job Title
Senior International and Defense Researcher-Adjunct
Company
RAND Corporation
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Speaker Bio
Glen Woodbury is the Former Director and Professor of the Practice Emeritus of the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security responsible for leading the Center’s strategic commitment to servicing the homeland security educational priorities of the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Defense, as well as local, state, tribal and federal agencies. Since 2018, the school has been recognized several times as the #1 graduate institution for Homeland/National Security and Emergency Management studies by US News and World Report.
He served as the Director of the Emergency Management Division for the State of Washington from 1998 through 2004. In this capacity, he directed the state’s response to numerous emergencies, disasters and heightened security threat levels since his appointment by the Adjutant General, MG Timothy Lowenberg, and the Governor, Gary Locke. Mr. Woodbury was the Director during the World Trade Organization disturbance in Seattle in 1999, the Nisqually Earthquake in February 2001, the TOPOFF II National Level Exercise in 2003, the national response to the attacks of September 11th, and many other natural and manmade emergencies and disasters.
Mr. Woodbury is a Past President (2002-2003) of the National Emergency Management Association (NEMA,), which represents all state and territorial emergency management directors in the development and advocacy of national policy, strategy and operational issues. He served as the emergency management representative to the Advanced National Seismic System Advisory Board, the Co-Chair of the Mitigation Committee, and as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Center for State Homeland Security, (a non-profit partnership of NEMA, the Adjutants General Association of the US, and Mitretek Systems.) He also served in a variety of capacities on many state and national councils, committees, and professional organizations including the National Homeland Security Consortium and the Department of Homeland Security’s Quadrennial Homeland Security Review Advisory Council.
Glen Woodbury served in the US Army as a communications officer from 1985 until he began his emergency management career in the State of Washington as an operations officer in 1992. Prior to his selection as the agency’s director, he managed the state’s Emergency Operations Center for two years. He has also served as a volunteer firefighter in East Olympia, WA.
Mr. Woodbury was raised in South Orange, NJ; holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Engineering Sciences from Lafayette College in Easton, PA (1985) and a Masters of Arts Degree in Security Studies (Homeland Defense and Security) from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA (2004.) He is a winner of the George C. Marshall Award, a Distinguished Military Graduate from Lafayette College and a winner of the Governor’s Distinguished Manager Award in 2003. He was awarded the Naval Postgraduate School’s David L. Williams Outstanding Professor Award and the National Emergency Management Association’s Lacy Suiter Distinguished Service Award both in 2017. In 2023, the Naval Postgraduate School presented Mr. Woodbury with the school’s Distinguished Alumni Award and in 2024, he received the US Navy’s Superior Civilian Service Award.
He served as the Director of the Emergency Management Division for the State of Washington from 1998 through 2004. In this capacity, he directed the state’s response to numerous emergencies, disasters and heightened security threat levels since his appointment by the Adjutant General, MG Timothy Lowenberg, and the Governor, Gary Locke. Mr. Woodbury was the Director during the World Trade Organization disturbance in Seattle in 1999, the Nisqually Earthquake in February 2001, the TOPOFF II National Level Exercise in 2003, the national response to the attacks of September 11th, and many other natural and manmade emergencies and disasters.
Mr. Woodbury is a Past President (2002-2003) of the National Emergency Management Association (NEMA,), which represents all state and territorial emergency management directors in the development and advocacy of national policy, strategy and operational issues. He served as the emergency management representative to the Advanced National Seismic System Advisory Board, the Co-Chair of the Mitigation Committee, and as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Center for State Homeland Security, (a non-profit partnership of NEMA, the Adjutants General Association of the US, and Mitretek Systems.) He also served in a variety of capacities on many state and national councils, committees, and professional organizations including the National Homeland Security Consortium and the Department of Homeland Security’s Quadrennial Homeland Security Review Advisory Council.
Glen Woodbury served in the US Army as a communications officer from 1985 until he began his emergency management career in the State of Washington as an operations officer in 1992. Prior to his selection as the agency’s director, he managed the state’s Emergency Operations Center for two years. He has also served as a volunteer firefighter in East Olympia, WA.
Mr. Woodbury was raised in South Orange, NJ; holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Engineering Sciences from Lafayette College in Easton, PA (1985) and a Masters of Arts Degree in Security Studies (Homeland Defense and Security) from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA (2004.) He is a winner of the George C. Marshall Award, a Distinguished Military Graduate from Lafayette College and a winner of the Governor’s Distinguished Manager Award in 2003. He was awarded the Naval Postgraduate School’s David L. Williams Outstanding Professor Award and the National Emergency Management Association’s Lacy Suiter Distinguished Service Award both in 2017. In 2023, the Naval Postgraduate School presented Mr. Woodbury with the school’s Distinguished Alumni Award and in 2024, he received the US Navy’s Superior Civilian Service Award.
