Speakers


Gregg Jones MPA, MMAS, MA
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Georgetown University
CEO, Strategic Applications, LLC


Professor Gregg Jones is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, where he specializes in crisis management, insurgency, counter-insurgency, counterterrorism, spontaneous crisis voluntarism effects, the future of war, umanitarian emergency response, and civil – military operations. He is also a professional crisis manager, owning a global consultancy with clients that include corporations, public private institutions, and government departments.

Previously, he has been a US Army Special Forces officer, an information technology executive, the founder of a Non-overnmental Organization, an entrepreneur, and a US Government civilian official. He has responded to complex humanitarian emergencies on several continents, been a wilderness and community volunteer firefighter and an accomplished alpinist. He served as Defense representative on the Interagency shuttle diplomacy team overseeing implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords in Bosnia and he led the Army’s civil – military analysis team to post-genocide Rwanda. He holds three Master’s degrees - in Public Administration, Strategy, and Political Science. He has taught internationally and has received numerous awards and decorations. His current volunteer efforts include World War II Missing-In-Action cases research, and open - source mapping as a Digital Humanitarian.