Colonel Charles Luke is an Army Strategic Plans Officer and currently a fellow with the US Army War College. He has served at all levels to include the Headquarters Department of the Army, The US Army Human Resources Command, and US Army Africa with experience in the Middle East, Africa, and SouthEast Asia. He has previously published in Military Review, AUSA Magazine, and Government Executive.
Jack Smith is a research assistant at the Property and Environment Research Center. He graduated from Harvard University in 2019 with a degree in Environmental Science and Public Policy and continues to study how policy incentives can improve the environment. While at PERC, he has contributed to The Hill, National Parks Traveler, and The Orange County Register.
Catherine Semcer is a research fellow with the Property and Environment Research Center. She previously worked for a large US conservation organization where her portfolio included US forest policy and was the group’s primary liaison to the Department of Defense on environmental issues. She has been a frequent witness before congress testifying on the intersection between conservation and security issues. Catherine’s research and contributions have appeared in The International Journal of Environmental Studies, The Woodrow Wilson Center’s New Security Beat, The Hill, and other publications.
Rob Denaburg is a Senior Managing Associate in Hagerty’s Preparedness Division. Rob serves as a lead in Hagerty’s Critical Infrastructure Preparedness work, with a focus on energy. Rob has worked with public and private sector clients to minimize the societal, economic, and national security impacts of infrastructure outages and build resilience against severe natural and manmade hazards.
Rear Admiral Richard Timme serves as the Assistant Commandant for Prevention Policy and is responsible for the development of national policy, standards, and programs promoting Marine Safety, Security and Environmental Stewardship. Three Directorates carry out the mission: Inspections and Compliance, Marine Transportation Systems, and Commercial Regulations and Standards. Programs include waterways management, navigation and boating safety, ports and facilities, merchant mariner credentialing, vessel documentation, marine casualty investigation, commercial vessel inspections, and port state control.
He recently served as the Coast Guard’s Budget Director where he was responsible for the formulation and justification of the Coast Guard’s $12 billion budget. Duties included advising senior leadership on all resource issues, and coordinating with DHS, OMB and Congress for budget and resource issues.
His operational experience includes serving as Commander of Coast Guard Sector Ohio Valley where he worked with federal, state and local government agencies to carry out Coast Guard missions. He was also the Captain of the Port and Commanding Officer of Marine Safety Unit Pittsburgh, and during the 2010 DEEPWATER HORIZON oil spill response, served as a Deputy Incident Commander and Federal On-Scene Coordinator Representative.
David London is a Managing Director at The Chertoff Group, where he helps companies address their most pressing cybersecurity risks. David works with clients to strengthen cyber governance, drive control transparency and prioritize security investments. He assists operational personnel and senior decision-makers to effectively mitigate and communicate cyber risk. He has led high-profile cybersecurity engagements in energy, financial services, retail, health care, and technology sectors. Prior to joining The Chertoff Group, David spent nine years at Booz Allen Hamilton where he led the design and development of some of the highest profile cyber exercises in the world including NERC’s Grid Security Exercise Series. He also directed company-specific incident management engagements to exercise operational, tactical and executive-level cyber readiness.