Eric Kevin Stern

Dr. Eric K. Stern is Professor of Political Science at the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cyber-Security at the University at Albany (SUNY) and Director of the AI & Society Research Center. Dr. Stern holds a Ph D from Stockholm University and a B.A. from Dartmouth College. He has published extensively in the fields of executive leadership, crisis and emergency management, crisis communication, resilience, security studies, foreign policy analysis and political psychology. He is also affiliated with the Swedish Defense University (where he served as Director of the National Center for Crisis Management Research and Training—CRISMART-- from 2004-2011). Other key areas of interest include the relationship between leaders and advisors, social media and crisis preparedness, post-crisis evaluation and learning, interactive education and exercise design, and case research/teaching methodologies.