Professor of Emergency Planning and Management at University College London
David Alexander is Professor of Emergency Planning and Management at University College London. His books include “Natural Disasters”, “Confronting Catastrophe”, “Principles of Emergency Planning and Management”, “Recovery from Disaster” (with Ian Davis) and “How to Write an Emergency Plan”. He is the Founding Editor of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. His research and teaching interests include natural hazards, earthquake disasters and emergency planning and management. He is currently working on a new book on emergency management. Alexander is the Vice=President of the Institute of Civil Protection and Emergency Management, the oldest learned society in its field.