Hello, Welcome to My Page, My Name is
Dr. Osama F Al Kurdi, PhD, CEM
Academic Faculty | Certified Emergency Manager | Blogger | Speaker
This space is designed to showcase my work as an academic lecturer and emergency manager and to house my recent writing and media videos
Meet Dr. Osama
With an integrated focus on emergency, disaster management and teaching, I have extensive 23 years experience as well as comprehensive experience in education.
I am deeply dedicated to the field of emergency and disaster management, with a passion for teaching in higher education, where I use my industrial expertise and the leadership and interpersonal skills I have developed in the industry
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Emergency Management
Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, Recovery, Emergency Response Plans, Incident Command System (ICS), Emergency Operation Center, Exercise Design and Evaluation
Business Continuity
Policy and Governance, Program Development, Risk Management, Business Impact Analysis (BIA), Exercise Design and Evaluation Business Continuity Plans
Crisis Management
Policy and Governance, Program Development, Crisis Management Plans, National Emergency Operation Center
Higher Education & Training
Academic and Teaching Faculty, Multi Discipline Course Development, Professional Training Content Development and Delivery
Teaching and Research
Courses Taught
- Emergency / Disaster Management Foundation
- Business Continuity Management Foundation
- Technology for Emergency Managers
- Comparative Emergency and Disaster Management
- Community Disaster Management
- Principals of Management
- Applied Project Management
- Organizational Behavior
- Business Technologies
- IT for Business
- Introduction to Human Resource Management
Research Interest & Publications
- Emergency / Disaster Management
- Business Continuity Management
- Crisis Information Management System
- Knowledge Management
- Organizational and business Management
- Higher Education
- Teaching and Learning