Ellis Stanley, CEM City of Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness Department Ellis M. Stanley, Sr., CEM General Manager City of Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness Department 200 N. Main St., Ste. 1500 Los Angeles, CA 90012 Tel: (213) 485-3469 Fax: (213) 485-1214 E-mail: estanley@mailbox.lacity.org Internet: www.lacity.org/epd • Consultant • Speaker • Writer

Ellis Stanley has developed expertise in emergency management, which can be applied to government, private sector and internationally.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Adjunct Instructor: National Emergency Training Center, St. Petersburg College Terrorism School and UCLA Extension program.

Served as discipline expert for many major events over his 25 year professional career, i.e. City of Los Angeles 1984 Olympics, City of Denver as they prepared for the Pope and the World Youth Conference, City of New Haven as they prepared for the 1995 Special Olympics and New Orleans as they prepared for the 1988 Republican Convention, as well as Atlanta and Chicago as they prepared for the 1988 and 1996 Democratic Conventions respectively; as the nine host cities of the World Cup games for the 1994 planned for their games and the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah. As well as other sporting events such as a Super Bowl and two World Series. He managed his City's Emergency Operations Center in the 1996 Centennial Olympics in Atlanta and the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles.

Stanley has an international reputation having led delegations of Emergency Management professionals to China and Japan for a month long professional exchange program as well as having conducted seminars on emergency management in Trinidad & Tobago, United Kingdom, Israel, the Philippines, and others.

WRITINGS
Stanley has written for several professional journals, i.e. The American Society of Professional Emergency Planners; International Association of Emergency Managers; Business and Industry Council on Emergency Planning and Preparedness Journal; Hazard Monthly; Energy & Transportation Network News; The Association of Contingency Planners Communicator and others. Co-authored a chapter for Handbook of Crisis and Emergency Management.

Certifications:
Certified Emergency Manager

Education:
Graduated 1973 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, BA in Political Science.

Professional Experience:
Ellis is active in the profession having been President of the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM), the American Society of Professional Emergency Planners, and the National Defense Transportation Association and Vice-Chair of the Association of Contingency Planners. He also chaired the Certified Emergency Managers Certification Commission. He is Vice-President for Public Sector of BICEPP (Business & Industry Council on Emergency Preparedness and Planning) and is on the Emergency Services Committee of the American Red Cross Los Angeles Chapter. The City Council has also appointed him to the Emergency Prepared ness Commission for Los Angeles County. Ellis was just recently appointed to the board of directors of the National Institute of Urban Search and Rescue. He is a 1999 graduate of Leadership Los Angeles.

While in Atlanta he was active in the community. Serving as a Vice-Chairman of the American Red Cross' Board of Directors, Member of Leadership Atlanta, Georgia's Local Emergency Planning Committee and many others. He has an international reputation having chaired the International Development Committee for IAEM and establishing Global Partnership Programs on Preparedness in several countries.

National committees include the National Science Foundation's appointment to the National Research Council's Board on Natural Disaster and the U. S. Congress' appointment to the National Weather Services Modernization Transition Committee. He is an adjunct instructor at the National Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg, MD and served as a member of the Board of Visitors of FEMA's Emergency Management Institute and an adjunct at St. Petersburg College Terrorism School. In the fall of 2000 Ellis begins as an instructor with UCLA teaching "Managing Emergency Operations".

Currently Ellis servers as an advisor to the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER), engineering solutions for earthquake loss reduction. MCEER research aims to improve seismic assessment and performance of buildings, highways and other infrastructure, as well as emergency response and recovery systems. He is the City of Los Angeles' representative to participate in the Cluster Cities Project of the Earthquake Megacities Initiative (EMI). The Cluster Cities Project fosters the sharing of knowledge, experience, expertise and technology in an effort to further advance the reduction of earthquake risk to large metropolises that are under the threat of earthquakes and other major disasters. He also chairs the Metro Emergency Managers Forum of the International Association of Emergency Managers.