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John Paczkowski
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Director and Executive Vice President
John Paczkowski has worked for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey since 1978, holding a variety of executive level positions in planning, policy and operations. In September 2001, he was the Assistant Director for Operations and managed the agency's emergency operations center following the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. The Trade Center was the Authority's corporate home and flagship facility for over 30 years. In December of that year, he was appointed Director of Emergency Management and Security, where he is responsible for oversight of agency-wide critical infrastructure protection and emergency readiness programs for the Authority's aviation, transit, tunnel and bridge, and maritime cargo facilities, to include oversight of a 1,600 person contract security guard force.
In 2002, John worked in partnership with the Office for Domestic Preparedness to develop and implement a risk assessment program that guided the setting of priorities for a 5-year $500 million security investment program. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey itself has completed two additional corporate-wide assessments and has moved from incremental risk assessment to an ongoing program of risk management. Through this program, the agency has successfully compared successive risk assessment results to measure the buy-down of risk over time as a metric for security program performance. John has also led the implementation of a risk/cost/benefit analysis methodology that facilitates the comparison of competing high-cost security alternatives. Expansion of the agency's risk management program from a security focus to encompass all-hazards risk is now being pursued and will be used to set priorities for the next five-year security investment program, expected to top $1.0 billion.
In 2005, John retired as a Colonel with 33 years of active and reserve service in the US Marine Corps as both an infantry and engineer officer. Activated for duty during the first Gulf War, he later worked in a variety of homeland defense and security roles at the service and joint staff level. In addition, John is a graduate of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, and his military awards include the Legion of Merit Medal. He holds a BS in Industrial Engineering and MS in Engineering Management from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, an MA in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University, and an MA in Security Studies from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), with a concentration in Homeland Defense and Security. While at NPS he received the prestigious Butch Straub Award for leadership and academic excellence from the Center for Homeland Defense and Security. His NPS thesis was on Risk Management as Strategic Change in National Homeland Security Policy.
Education
M.A., Organizational Psychology, Columbia University
M.A., Security Studies, Naval Postgraduate School
M.S., Engineering Management, New Jersey Institute of Technology
B.S., Industrial Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology
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