Robert Becker

Robert Becker had a 40-year career as a federal emergency manager. He worked in fire management for the U.S. Forest Service in multiple leadership positions with hotshot crews, engines and aviation as well as a battalion chief, division chief, regional fire training officer and senior emergency management specialist. Becker served on Type 2 incident management teams (IMT) for 12 years in command and general staff positions and on a Type I IMT for five years as an operations section chief. He was seconded as a disaster management specialist to the USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance for five years and spent the last five years of his career as the director of the Office of Emergency Management for the U.S. Department of State. Becker currently volunteers for the Hawaii Fire Department.