Jim Ramsay is currently professor of security studies, and the founding program coordinator of the BS in Homeland Security at the University of New Hampshire, where he teaches environmental security, strategic planning and decision making, emergency management, exercise design and evaluation, terrorism: origins and ideologies, and directs the internship program and the senior capstone consulting project.

Dr. Ramsay has almost 20 years of experience in public health, emergency management and environmental health. He was previously at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida where he founded the HS program, and later was the founding chair of the department of Security Studies and International Affairs. Dr. Ramsay recently served for four years on the Board of Scientific Counselors to the Director of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health in the CDC after being appointed by the US Secretary of Health and Human Services and currently serves on the US Chamber of Commerce Cybersecurity Council.

Dr. Ramsay has also been a frequent scientific reviewer for the National Occupational Research Agenda, and currently serves on the editorial review boards for Homeland Security Affairs, the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, and the Journal of Homeland Security Education and the Journal of Human Security and Resilience. He also is co-founder and current president of the International Society for Preparedness, Resilience and Security (INSPRS.org). Dr. Ramsay has recently published “Introduction to Homeland Security” and “Critical Issues in Homeland Security: A Casebook” both through Westfield Publications (Boulder, CO). In addition, he expects to complete his third text tentatively entitled, “Foundations of Environmental Security: Integrating Resilience into National Security” by spring, 2017 published by the American Meteorological Society.