Dr. Keith S. Bradley received his Ph.D in plasma physics from the University of California.  During more than two decades at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he has served as principal investigator and project leader in the areas of fusion research, nuclear weapons design and analysis, and other projects important to national security.  He is currently the Associate Division Leader in charge of weapons effects, missile defense, and stockpile systems analysis in the Proliferation Detection and Defense Systems Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

René van den Bosch  studied civil engineering in Rotterdam, and he has worked in the field of passive fire protection since 1994. He is responsible for the worldwide coordination of the tunnel business for Promat.  He is a member of the team that prepared and conducted the full-scale fire tests in the Runehamar tunnel in Norway, as part of the UPTUN research program, funded by the European Union.  He is a member of the NFPA-502, technical committee on Road Tunnels and Highway Fire Protection, in the United States.  He is a member of the International Tunnelling Association (ITA), Working Group 6, Maintenance and Repair, Guidelines For Structural Fire Resistance For Road Tunnels.

David Brown has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. He has been working with Argonne National Laboratory for ten years.  He has also worked on subway dispersion modeling issues for seven years.  Other research areas include hazardous materials, transportation risk assessment and chemical accident modeling.

James A. Burns has been the State Fire Administrator for the New York State Department of State/Office of Fire Prevention and Control since May 1, 1995.  He has over 43 years of experience in various facets of New York State fire fighting operations and administration.  Mr. Burns also serves as the President for the National Association of State Fire Marshals.  He has held many positions in state and local firefighters organizations such as: President, Hudson Valley Volunteer Firemen's Association; Member, New York State Association of Fire Chiefs, Inc.; Southern New York Volunteer Firemen's Association; Central New York Volunteer Firemen's Association.

Matthew Davy first started working at Schirmer Engineering as an intern in the Los Angeles office, where he was responsible for code consultation, smoke control, special inspections, rationale analyses, and code modification requests for projects throughout the West Coast.  After completing work on his Masters degree, Mr. Davy rejoined Schirmer Engineering in the Washington Regional Office (WRO) as a Fire Protection Consultant. His responsibilities include preparing fire protection/life safety reports, third-party plan review and inspections, preparing code modifications and coordination with clients.  Mr. Davy is a member of the WRO computer modeling team, using a variety of fire and egress modeling programs and techniques to develop performance-based code solutions.  He has a Master of Science degree in Fire Protection Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Joseph Fleming is Deputy Chief, Division 2, in the Boston Fire Department.  He supervised the Linear Heat Detection and Operational Response Study for the Central Artery Third Harbor Tunnel Project.  He also supervised testing and approval of the Ventilation System for the Central Artery Third Harbor Tunnel Project.  He first joined the Boston Fire Department in 1978 as a firefighter assigned to the Rescue, Ladder and Engine Companies.  He is presently a member of the National Fire Protection Research Foundation’s Advisory Council on Fire Detection and Alarm Futures and Post-Fire Analysis.  He is also currently a member of Underwriter Laboratories Fire Safety Council.  He has a B.A. in Electrical Engineering and a M.A. in Information Systems from Northeastern University.  He is the author of many technical papers and articles.

Chief Gary Gee began has been a police officer for 37 years.  He began his sworn law-enforcement career in Marin County, California.  After nearly four years as a police officer with the city of Sausalito, Gee served as a San Rafael police officer for two years.

In March 1973, Gee joined the BART police department, five months after the four-county transit system began revenue service.  In December 2000, he was selected as chief of police.  He is BART’s first top cop to have risen through the department’s ranks.  Gee commands a regional transit police force that has 215 sworn police officers and 80 civilian personnel.

Since 9/11, Gee has made numerous presentations on BART’s anti-terrorism and system-security measures and preparedness.  He served on the U.S. State Department consultation team that provided transit-policing and anti-terrorism recommendations to the Kingdom of Thailand for that country’s first subway system; and panels for the Federal Transit Administration, American Public Transit Association, and Transportation Research Board of the National Academies.

Gee is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, California Peace Officers’ Association, National Association of Asian Law Enforcement Commanders, and the police chiefs’ associations of the counties that BART serves.  A native San Franciscan, he is a graduate of the University of San Francisco and California Law Enforcement Command College

Alfred Haack is a Managing Director of STUVA (Research Association for Underground Transportation Facilities) in Cologne, Germany.  From 1998 to 2001, he served as President of the International Tunneling Association (ITA).  He is a member of the International PIARC Working Group, Fire and Smoke Control, and a member of the ITA Working Group 6, Maintenance and Repair, dealing with structural fire safety.  He has written more than 200 articles on the structural aspects, waterproofing techniques, and fire safety concerns in transport tunnels for both national and international publications.

Dr. Haukur Ingason works for the Swedish National Testing and Research Institute (SP).  He has more than 15 years of international experience in fire research.  He has been involved in large scale and model scale studies of fire and smoke movement in tunnels and a number of advanced consulting projects on tunnel fire safety.  His main contributions to tunnel safety are in the area of design fires, smoke movement, visibility in smoke, and the influence of ventilation on fire development.   He was the project leader of the Large Scale Fire Tests in Runehamar Tunnel 2003.  He has published over 30 scientific papers and reports on different subjects concerning fire safety.  He is the editor of the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Catastrophic Tunnel Fire (CTF) in Borås, Sweden 2003.  He has a Ph.D. degree from the Technical University in Lund, Sweden.

Dr. Ahmed Kashef is Research Officer, Fire Risk Management, at the Institute for Research in Construction (IRC), National Research Council (NRC), in Canada.  Dr. Kashef’s expertise includes smoke migration analysis, CFD modeling technique, wind-induced effects on buildings and bridges, wind-tunnel experimental procedures, dynamic analysis of bridge structures, and floor vibrations.  Dr. Kashef’s has more than 12 years experience in applying CFD techniques in modeling fire-induced flows, smoke movement, and indoor thermal comfort.  Dr. Kashef has developed numerical models for the fire risk assessment of light industrial buildings.

Bill Kennedy is Vice President of Parsons Brinckerhoff.  Mr. Kennedy has 35 years of experience as a Tunnel Ventilation Engineer.  He has designed tunnel vent system on six continents.  He is the author of SES Program Aerodynamic Model, and participated in the Memorial Tunnel Fire Tests.  Mr. Kennedy is Chairman of NFPA-130 since January 2000.

James Lake is Senior Fire Protection Specialist at the National Fire Protection Association in Quincy, MA.  In this position he is responsible for working with NFPA Technical Committees on Fixed Guideway Transit and Passenger Rail Systems and the Technical Committee on Road Tunnels.  In the past, he has worked with various technical committees, including those in the NFPA Life Safety Code project and the Technical Committee on Subterranean Spaces.  He has also been involved with numerous international initiatives, including the International Standards Organization (ISO) Technical Committee on Water Extinguishing Systems.  He has a Bachelor of Professional Studies in Fire Prevention Administration, and is working on his Masters of Education.

David LeBlanc is Senior Project Manager for Special Hazards Application Development for Tyco Fire Products Research and Development.  In this position, he currently manages Tyco's research efforts to solve tunnel fire problems.  He is on the Board of Directors for the International Water Mist Association.  He is also actively involved in several NFPA committees and serves as a Technical Advisor to the United States delegation for the Fire Protection Subcommittee of the International Maritime Organization.  He graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. in Fire Protection Engineering in 1998.

Anders Lönnermark is a senior research scientist at the Department of Fire Technology at SP Swedish National Testing and Research Institute where he has been employed since January 1995.  Lönnermark's particular research interests include foam spread on a burning liquid surface, fires in tunnels, and emissions from fires.  During the fall 2003, he was responsible for the performance of the large-scale fire tests in the Runehamar Tunnel in Norway.

Sergiu Luchian is a civil engineer who has worked for the past 23 years on the $15 Billion Central Artery Tunnel Project.  Holding increasingly responsible positions, Mr. Luchian managed the design criteria development for all project disciplines, developed and managed the operations, communications, security and systems on the project, as well as all Central Artery Tunnel research programs.  For the last six years, Mr. Luchian has worked for the Parsons Brinckerhoff Boston Office.

Marieke Martens has worked in the Traffic Behavior Group at TNO Human Factors since 1996.  She has studied human behaviors and traffic with a special emphasis on tunnel safety.  She participated in the SAFESTAR project involving driving behavior in tunnels under specific design conditions.  She conducted a driving simulator study about safety measures during calamities in the Westerschelde Tunnel in the Netherlands.  She is WP3 leader of the European project UPTUN, a project dealing with the tunnel user, the tunnel operator, and emergency response teams.  She was involved in the C5 Working Group 3 of PIARC, Human Factors and Road Tunnel Safety.  For the European Safe-T Project, she provided an overview of descriptions of wrong behavior in tunnels and existing and new countermeasures to address this.  She studied Engineering Psychology and Human Factors at the Free University in Amsterdam.

Dr. Harvey Parker is an independent consultant with over 40 years of engineering experience.  His areas of expertise include soil and rock mechanics, geological engineering, and civil and construction engineering.  He has served as a member of a Board of Consultants or a similar position in a senior supervisory/review capacity on complete geotechnical design, construction, instrumentation of major facilities for transit, railroad, highway water and waste, hydroelectric, port, defense, and development of underground schemes in over 15 countries.  He is the President of the International Tunneling Association (ITA).  He is the Tutor for the ITA Working Group on Environment and ITA’s spokesperson for Sustainable Development.  He chairs the ITA task force on tunnel security and is a leader in a similar committee for the American Underground Construction Association (AUA).  He is also ITA’s official NGO representative to the United Nations.  Previously, he has served as the Chairman of the U.S. National Committee on Tunneling Technology (USNC/TT) and as Chairman of the Underground Technology Research Council (UTRC).   Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Dr. Parker was a Senior Vice President at Shannon & Wilson, Inc. where he also served as Director of Human Resources for six years and as Director of Operations for two years.  Before that, he was an Assistant Vice President with Parsons Brinckerhoff where he became Technical Director responsible for geotechnical engineering worldwide.  He received his BSCE from Auburn (API), and his Masters (S.M.) in geotechnical engineering from Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in geotechnical engineering with a minor in geology.  He has authored or co-authored over 30 publications.

Henry A. Russell is Vice President of Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc.  He is a member of the AUA Committee on Tunnel Safety and Chairman of the ITA Working Group 6, Repair and Maintenance of Underground Structures which just published A Guideline for Fire Resistance Road Tunnels in conjunction with the International Road Federation (PIARC).  He is a registered Professional Engineer/Engineering Geologist with more than 35 years experience in the design, inspection, evaluation and rehabilitation of tunnels, underground structures, and deep foundations.  He has published technical papers on engineering geology, tunnel rehabilitation, tunnel start-up, and slurry wall construction.

Dr. Andrzej Rucinski is Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Space Science Center at the University of New Hampshire.  He has consulted for a variety of industries and governments, primarily in applications of computers, testing and knowledge technology transfer. He has 27 years of teaching experience at Polish, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Russian, French, and American Universities. He has taught courses in computer programming, collaborative engineering, digital systems design, computer organization and architecture, fault-tolerant computing, and VLSI.  He received his M.Sc. from the Technical University of Odessa, Ukraine in 1973 and his Ph.D. in Technical Sciences from the Technical University of Gdansk, Poland in 1982.  He is a member of the IEEE, the Computer Society, and a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Microelectronic Design. He is also a professor in the Space Science Center in UNH's Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space.

Dr. Bernd Thamm is Seconded National Expert at the European Commission working for the General Directorate of Transport and Energy in the field of Road Safety and Technology.  His primary work has involved drafting a European Tunnel Directive with minimum safety requirements for all tunnels over 500 meters along the Trans-European Road Network (TERN).  This directive was approved by the European Council and the European Parliament in the Spring of 2004.  From 1998 to 2001, he was the German member of PIARC C5 Road Tunnel Committee and Working Group 1, Road Tunnel Operations.  Since 2000, he has served on PIARC C5, Working Group 3, Human Factors of Road Tunnel Safety.  From 1975 to 2001, he worked at the Federal Highway Research Institute of Germany (BASt). In the first 14 years, he was head of the Foundation Engineering and Rock Mechanics Group in the Department of Earthworks and Foundation Engineering of the BASt. From 1989 to 2001, he directed the Tunneling and Foundation Engineering Divison in the Department of Bridges and Engineering Constructions.  After taking his Diploma degree at the Technical University of Aachen, Germany, he was awarded a Canada Council scholarship and attended the University of Waterloo, Ontario, where he received his Master’s degree. Returning to Germany, he earned his Doctoral degree at the University of Stuttgart, Department of Geotechnical Engineering.

Paul L. Wertheimer is the founder and head of Crowd Management Strategies, an international crowd safety consulting service. The firm also manages the Crowdsafe® Database and the Crowdsafe.com website.  He has participated in the development and passage of crowd safety legislation and guidance in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Australia.  He authored the Crowd Management Task Force Report, following the 1979 Who concert tragedy in Cincinnati, Ohio.  In 2003, Mr. Wertheimer testified before the Rhode Island Legislative Commission on the station fire disaster in West Warwick and before the Chicago safety panel on the E2 nightclub crowd crush tragedy.  He has also addressed crowd safety as a guest of European governments.  He has appeared on numerous radio and television news programs speaking about crowd control and crowd safety.

He graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Platteville in 1988 with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and from Pennsylvania State University (PennState) in 1995 was a M.S. of Structures and is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Wisconsin.  He is a member of ASCE and currently serves on the PIARC Technical Committee on Road Tunnel Operations (C3.3).

Dan has been with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) since 1988 and is currently working out of the Headquarters Office in Washington, DC on the Major Projects Team with past assignments in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.  In October 1995 Dan became the Federal Highway Administration’s Structural Engineer for the Central Artery/Tunnel (CA/T) Project in Boston, Massachusetts and in September 2001 also became the Division Bridge Engineer responsible for the Massachusetts statewide bridge program until July 2004.  During his tenure on the Big Dig, Dan has authored many technical papers and presented many topics on the CA/T Project and is the coordinator of FHWA’s “Innovations and Advancements” Program on the CA/T Project, which shares the “Lessons Learned” on the Central Artery Project to National and International Transportation Officials.

In January 2003 Dan became a team member of FHWA’s Vulnerability Assessment Team to address the concerns of terrorist attack on the Countries infrastructure conducting engineering vulnerability assessments for State Highway Departments and specific projects across the Country as well as develop and provided training.

In his current position, Dan is in the process of creating a national technology transfer program that shares the lessons learned from all the major projects across the country as well as coordinates all security measures and vulnerability assessments on these large transportation projects.