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Dawn Thomas is an Associate Director and Research Analyst on the Safety and Security team at CNA. She is an expert in large-scale incident planning and response. In 14 years at CNA, Thomas has worked on a wide array of emergency preparedness issues, helping state, local, regional and federal entities prepare for and respond to cyberattacks, biological attacks, active shooters, large-scale evacuations, medical evacuation, earthquakes and tsunamis, mass casualty chemical incidents and disease outbreaks. Thomas came to CNA after studying terrorism and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she received her master’s degree.

Steve Weber is a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and Department of Political Science. His research, teaching and advisory work focus on the political economy of knowledge-intensive industries, with special attention to health care, information technology, software and global political economy issues relating to competitiveness. Weber has served as special consultant to the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, has held academic fellowships with the Council on Foreign Relations and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was director of the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley from 2003 to 2009.

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