Bob Freitag

Bob Freitag

Director of Institute for Hazards Mitigation Research and Planning

Bob Freitag is the Past Executive Director of the Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup and the Director of the Institute for Hazards Mitigation Planning and Research at the University of Washington. He is also a Certified Floodplain Manager and is on the Board of Directors with the Association of State Floodplain Managers. He has extensive experience with FEMA where he served as special advisor to Regional Director on mitigation policy issues, was appointed by President Clinton as the Federal Coordinating Officer (FCO) to manage declared disaster response and recovery operations in Alaska, Washington, Oregon and Idaho, supervised a cadre of over 200 engineers, planners, architects and accountants in implementing response and recovery operations for over 50 presidentially declared disasters in 18 states and 2 territories and prepared over 40 post disaster hazard mitigation plans covering floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, landslides, wildland Fires, earthquakes and winter storms.