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| | [![](media/image1.png){width="1.5625in"                          |  |
| | height="2.0208333333333335in"}**Gerard J.                        |  |
| | Hoetmer**](mailto:ghoetmer@riskinstitute.org),\                  |  |
| | Executive Director                                               |  |
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| | Gerry Hoetmer was appointed Executive Director of the Public     |  |
| | Entity Risk Institute in May 1997. Prior to joining PERI,        |  |
| | Hoetmer created, directed, and managed numerous programs for the |  |
| | International City/County Management Association, Washington,    |  |
| | D.C., for 19 years.                                              |  |
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| | Since March 1988, he was Director of Research and Development.   |  |
| | He oversaw a 25-member department that managed ICMA\'s fire,     |  |
| | police, housing and community, environmental, and local          |  |
| | government information technology programs; the Performance      |  |
| | Measurement, Base Closure, and Utility Consortiums; and local    |  |
| | government planning projects. He led the establishment of        |  |
| | ICMA\'s Center for Performance Measurement and the Government    |  |
| | Services Television Network.                                     |  |
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| | For six years he was Director of Public Safety Programs for      |  |
| | ICMA. He developed, directed, and authored the research project, |  |
| | Assessing Local Government Emergency Management Needs and        |  |
| | Priorities. He conceived and led the development of a training   |  |
| | course, City and County Manager and Emergency Program Manager    |  |
| | Disaster Preparedness, which is a standing course offered at the |  |
| | Emergency Management Institute, National Emergency Training      |  |
| | Center, Emmitsburg, Maryland.                                    |  |
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| | When he joined ICMA in 1978 as a Project Manager, Gerry directed |  |
| | studies and projects in the areas of fire and emergency          |  |
| | management. He directed a National Science Foundation-funded     |  |
| | study, Optimizing Fire Service Productivity and Improvement by   |  |
| | Local Government; developed and directed a series of City        |  |
| | Manager/Fire Leadership workshops; managed the US Fire           |  |
| | Administration's report to Congress on Fire Master Planning;     |  |
| | directed and was the author of Design of a Scientific            |  |
| | Information Collation and Dissemination System for the Federal   |  |
| | Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and was the editor along with |  |
| | Dr. Drabek of the textbook Emergency Management: Principles and  |  |
| | Practice for Local Government.                                   |  |
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| | Hoetmer has served as a fire service expert witness for numerous |  |
| | cities across the country, as well as before Congress. Before he |  |
| | joined ICMA, he was with the city of Aurora, Colorado, first as  |  |
| | Administrative Aide to the City Manager and then as Assistant to |  |
| | the Fire Chief.                                                  |  |
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| | Hoetmer currently serves on the National Fire Protection         |  |
| | Committee NFPA 1710 Standard for the Organization and Deployment |  |
| | of Fire Suppression Operations, Emergency Medical Operations,    |  |
| | and Special Operations to the Public by Career Fire Departments. |  |
| | He was a commissioner of the first Certified Emergency Manager   |  |
| | (CEM) Commission. He has also served on the NFPA 1500 Standard   |  |
| | on Fire Department Occupational Safety and Health Program and on |  |
| | the NFPA 1201 Standard for Developing Fire Protection Services   |  |
| | for the Public.                                                  |  |
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| | Hoetmer received a Bachelor of Arts degree from State University |  |
| | of New York at New Paltz in 1971 and Master\'s Degree in Public  |  |
| | Administration from the University of Colorado in 1976.          |  |
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