Prof. Ira Helsloot lectures at CRISMART

CRISMART was proud to recently welcome to the Swedish National Defence College Professor Ira Helsloot from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Professor Helsloot is also the editor of the Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management (JCCM). During a public lecture and discussion at the Defence College on 4 June 2009, Professor Helsloot described a number of preliminary observations from the Turkish Airlines TK 1951 accident outside Schipol airport near Amsterdam and discussed the state-of-the-art of crisis management research and practice. Professor Helsloot is a professor at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam in the field of crisis management and security, but also a senior board member with several regional fire safety organizations in the Netherlands, and founder of Crisislab. Professor Helsloot has earlier conducted research on the 2000 Enschede fireworks factory disaster and a night club fire in the Dutch city of Volendam. Currently, Professor Helsloot is working on a book together with Uriel Rosenthal (Leiden University, COT Institute for Safety, Security and Crisis Management), Brian Jacobs (Staffordshire University) and Louise Comfort (University of Pittsburgh).