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CONTRIBUTORS
Vincenzo Bollettino, Ph.D., is director of the Resilient Communities Program, Harvard Humanitarian
Initiative. He has 20 years of professional and academic experience in international politics, humanitarian
action, civil-military engagement in emergencies, and the security of humanitarian aid workers. He has
spent the past 14 years at Harvard University in administration, teaching, and research. Current research
focuses on civil-military engagement during humanitarian emergencies, the security of humanitarian aid
workers, and on the professionalization of the humanitarian aid field. He has managed training and policy
development initiatives related to international humanitarian law, responsibility to protect, and peacebuilding
operations, and has designed security reporting systems and program evaluations for field security
measures in complex emergencies. He currently serves on the boards of Enhancing Learning and Research
for Humanitarian Assistance, Action Against Hunger, and the International Solutions Group.
Julia Brooks is a legal research associate at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, where she specializes in
international humanitarian law and policy for the Advanced Training Program on Humanitarian Action
(ATHA) of the Humanitarian Academy at Harvard. She previously worked at the Foundation “Remembrance,
Responsibility & Future”, Adelphi Research & Consult, the German Parliament, and the U.N. High
Commissioner for Refugees as a senior fellow with Humanity in Action. She has also served at the Office of
the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia in The Hague. She holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law
and Diplomacy at Tufts University, specializing in public international law, human security and transitional
justice, and a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy from Brown University, magna cum laude.
Maj. Chris Hearl has more than 17 years of experience working in the Contracting and
Operational Contract Support (OCS) environment. He is currently the director of Small Business Programs
for U.S. Pacific Air Forces and deputy for the Operations Division, Air Force Installation Contracting Agency/KH.
In this role, he serves as a primary OCS liaison with U.S. Pacific Command. He has served stateside,
and in Europe, the Pacific, the Middle East, and three tours to Afghanistan. He has a MBA from the Naval
Postgraduate School, participates in several civil-military organizations, and has directly contributed to over
a dozen humanitarian assistance and disaster response events around the globe.
Col. James Reilly (Ret.), USMC, retired from the Marine Corps in 2013 after having served 30 years.
During his career he served in all four Marine Divisions, deployed to the Middle East in support of contingency
operations, responded to humanitarian disasters in the Asia-Pacific, and held senior command and
staff positions. His last assignment in the Marine Corps was with Headquarters, Marine Forces Pacific,
where he served as the chief of staff from 2010 to 2012, and finally finishing his career supporting Pacific
theater engagement and Southeast Asia exercises.
Tino Kreutzer is a program manager at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and Brigham and Women’s
Hospital, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At HHI, he coordinates the development of KoBoToolbox,
the leading data collection suite for humanitarian settings, where he is working with UNOCHA,
the International Rescue Committee and other humanitarian NGOs on improving speed and quality of
disaster assessments. He is also responsible for field implementation and training of HHI’s Peace and Human
Rights Data Program. In 2014, he was seconded to the U.N. Mission for Ebola Emergency Response,
where he advised local response teams on data collection and data analysis in hotspot areas in Sierra Leone,
Liberia, and Guinea. Prior to HHI, he was an Information Management Specialist working for UNDP and
UNOCHA. He has 10 years experience working in humanitarian crises and recovery settings in Central
African Republic, DR Congo, Uganda, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
Pete Novick, a career Surface Warfare Officer (Cmdr., U.S. Navy, Ret.), subsequently worked in Navy
Emergency Management as shore installation EM, Navy region EM, Navy Anti-Terrorism Force Protection
(ATFP) Assistant Program Manager and lead Navy representative to Joint Project Manager Guardian, and
finally as Navy ATFP Program Quality Assurance Manager, supporting command and control and physical
security systems acquisition for Navy shore installations worldwide. He now lives in South Newfane,
Vermont and owns Hayama Cabinetmakers, LLC.
David Polatty has served as a professor at the U.S. Naval War College since 2008 and teaches numerous
courses on military strategy, crisis planning, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations,
and maritime security. Dave is cofounder and co-director of the NWC College of Operational & Strategic
Leadership – Harvard School of Public Health “Joint Civilian-Military Humanitarian Working Group,”
which explores academic collaboration areas that can improve humanitarian responses during disaster. He
is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Naval War College, and U.S. Joint Forces Staff College. He
continues to serve part-time as a commander in the Navy Reserve, and has commanded four reserve units in
U.S. Forces Korea, U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command, U.S. Strategic Command Center for Combating
WMD, and U.S. European Command. He served on active duty from 1992 to 2003.
Kenneth R. Tingman was a Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) Federal Coordinating Officer (FCO) in the Pacific Area Office from 2007 - 2010. During
his three years as an FCO, he deployed to 15 disasters across the nation, his final deployment being the
earthquake and tsunami in American Samoa, where he spent six months leading the disaster response. Before
joining FEMA, Tingman spent 24 years in the U.S. Air Force as a communications officer. During his
time in the military, he served in a variety of locations and positions around the world, including serving as
a military assistant to the senior U.S. Diplomat on the United Nations staff in Kosovo and was the communications
squadron commander at the Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudia Arabia, on September 11, 2001. He is
also a certified instructor for the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center.
Ronaldo Reario heads the Training and Partnership Unit of the Civil-Military Coordination Section,
Emergency Services Branch, U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Geneva,
Switzerland. He manages the global United Nations Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination (UN-CMCoord)
Training Programme, develops and sustains partnerships with various organizations and institutions in
promoting and creating understanding on the principles and concepts of humanitarian civil-military coordination,
supports training and capacity development requirements of OCHA regional and country offices,
national disaster management organizations and other defense and military training institutions, including
peacekeeping training centers. As an United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination member and
UN-CMCoord course graduate, he has deployed to emergency missions in: Darfur, Sudan and Indonesia in
2004; Pakistan in 2005; Mongolia in 2005; Myanmar in 2008; Haiti in 2010; and the Philippines extensively.
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