Disaster via Airmail: The Launching of a Global Reaction Capacity After the 2001 Anthrax Attacks

Patrick Lagadec is a founding member of the European Crisis Management Academy, member of the French Academy of Engineering, and director of research at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. Author of ten books, among them Preventing Chaos in a Crisis (McGraw Hill, 1993), he has been acting as a strategic advisor and trainer in the field of major risks, unconventional crises and global “ruptures” for the past 25 years. Dr. Lagadec received the Engelberg Forum Prize in 1999.

Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan is Managing Director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. His work focuses on managing and financing extreme events. A member of the Global Risk Network of the World Economic Forum, he is the co-author most recently of Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Ryan N. Ellis is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. He received his MA in Communication in 2004 also at the University of California, San Diego. His current research focuses on the history of competition within the U.S. postal industry and the contemporary politics of postal service.