Norwegian Public Roads Administration,
Southern Region Office
Resilience Adviser
Websites:
www.vegvesen.no
www.husdal.com
Jan Husdal has since February 2012 been a Resilience Adviser with the Southern Region office of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (Statens vegvesen Region sør) in Arendal, Norway. He oversees that the state-managed road network is planned, built, operated and maintained so that it can function 24/7/365, and thus ensure societal safety and societal security, i.e. resilience.
He is the founder a husdal.com, a personal undertaking serving as a Internet gateway to journal articles, research papers, books, websites and other resources in Supply Chain Risk, Business Continuity and Transportation Vulnerability, collected, evaluated and reviewed by himself.
Prior to his current position he was a Research Geographer with the Transport Economics Research Group at Møreforsking Molde and Molde University College in Molde, Norway, where he was engaged in cost-benefit evaluations and impact assessments of infrastructure projects, mainly related to roads and airports. He was also engaged as a guest lecturer in Supply Chain Risk.
In his earlier career he served as a government adviser in vulnerability assessment, safe community planning and crisis management with several Norwegian government authorities for more than 15 years.
First ever ISCRiM meeting held at the Crewe Campus of Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU).
ISCRiM was started by Clare Brindley and Prof Bob Ritchie from MMU and the photograph includes Clare Brindley, Bob Ritchie, John Morris from MMU, George Zsisidin, Robert Lindroth, Andreas Norman and Ulf Paulsson, who were all founder members.
This was ISCRiM’s first dinner held at the White Lion Hotel, Cheshire, England. The initial meeting grew from a paper presented by John Morris in Canada.