SDMI Associate Director Andres Calderon featured in an interview with largest newspaper in El Salvador SDMI Associate Director Andres Calderon was featured in an interview with La Prensa Grafica, the largest newspaper in El Salvador, to discuss the upcoming local Business Continuity conference. Calderon emphasized how important it is for businesses to plan for disaster and develop a strategy to stay in business. Calderon will speak at the conference as a disaster management specialist. Read More…

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Task Force on U.S.-Japan Cooperation released a new report and series of recommendations “Partnership for Recovery and a Stronger Future: Standing with Japan after 3-11.” Read More…  

WASHINGTON – The sixth installment in the CSIS-LSU Series on Disaster Management will take place Wednesday, November 2, 2011. Titled “The Role of Philanthropy in Disaster Preparedness, Relief, and Recovery,” the event will feature an easy-chair discussion with speakers from the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, and the Baton Rouge Area Foundation. Lori Bertman, president and CEO of the Irene W. and C.B. Pennington Foundation, will moderate the discussion, which will take place from 4:30 to…