Eric Stern

Eric K. Stern is a professor at the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity, and the interim director of the AI Plus Institute, at the University at Albany. 

Dr. Stern holds a PhD from Stockholm University and a BA from Dartmouth College. He has published extensively in the fields of:

• Crisis and emergency management
• Crisis communication
• Resilience
• Security studies
• Executive leadership
• Foreign policy analysis
• Political psychology 

He is also affiliated with the Swedish National Center for Crisis Management Research and Training at the Swedish Defense University (where he served as Director from 2004 to 2011) and the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware. He is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Crisis Analysis.

Other key areas of interest and expertise include social media and crisis preparedness, post-crisis evaluation and learning, interactive education and instructional design, and case research/teaching methodologies.

In addition to his scholarly work, Dr. Stern has collaborated closely with a wide range of partners on a wide range of applied research and educational projects, including training and exercise development. Dr. Stern has worked with:

• US government agencies, such as the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology, FEMA, Coast Guard and FBI
• Foreign government agencies, such as those from the UK, Sweden, Switzerland, Estonia, Slovenia and South Korea
• The European Union
• The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

CEHC Courses Taught

• CEHC 344 Emergency Preparedness 
• CEHC 345 Leadership & Ethics in EHC 
• CEHC 410 Capstone Project in EHC