Chad Briggs presents his book Disaster Security: Using Intelligence and Military Planning for Energy and Environmental Risks. Chad Briggs is professor of Public Policy at UAA the new Director of Graduate Public Policy and Administration Programs. Much of his research focuses on post-conflict environmental health and energy reconstruction, disaster planning in the Arctic and Asia-Pacific, and the integration of energy and environmental risks to joint planning and intelligence operations. An architect of U.S. government scenarios by planning various approaches to climate and energy security intelligence and hybrid/cyber warfare, he questions “what does climate change mean for security “and “how do natural disasters depend upon human actions and human vulnerabilities?” Chad Briggs’ previous positions includes Strategy Director for GlobalInt LLC, at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Kosovo and Minerva Chair of Energy and Environmental Security at the Air University, United States Air Force. He received his PhD in Political Science from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and his Master of Arts in International Relations from Limerick University in Ireland.