The Resilience Advisors Network
The Resilience Advisors Network (RAN) is a group of some 150 practitioners, all experienced emergency and/or crisis managers. The Network has offices worldwide but operates through companies (Ltd) in UK and Ireland.
Advisors work together to form expert teams to bring their practitioner knowledge to support projects and programs for governments, businesses and other international organizations.
Our Advisors come from a broad range of emergency service and disaster management-related backgrounds, most holding senior positions in Emergency Management, Rescue Service or Civil Protection authorities. They all have practical and real experience of 'doing the job'; preparing for, responding to and managing real-life emergencies and disasters.
RAN also manages CMINE, the Crisis Management Innovation Network Europe, providing a comprehensive engagement platform under an MoU with the European Research Executive Agency. This provides TeamAware with immediate access to over 1000 Crisis Managers. We also facilitate the Network of Centers of Expertise deploying the products of the FP7/H2020 project Driver+
Within horizon 2020 and horizon Europe programmes, RAN focusses on bringing-in it’s knowledge of real-life experience from first responders and crisis management organisations. RAN delivers:
- Collecting user requirements
- Validating and testing of solutions
- Interaction with end users through the wide network of the experts
Within TeamAware, RAN activity includes:
Work package 2 - an European overview on the scenarios, doctrines and protocols in which the first responders work in Europe. This overview is the basis for the scenario development for the validation tests in WP 13 and is a background document for the developers who work on the development of the technical tools.
RAN leads in WP13, organising the demonstration and validations together with end users in the project. For this, we will be using the Driver+ trail guidance methodology as the basis for the work, developing and adjusting it to fit the requirements of TeamAware.
CMINE is to be used in the dissemination (WP14).
Peter Glerum
European Director Resilience advisors
Peter's education in environmental planning and crisis management gives him an unrivalled knowledge of planning within governmental organisations on a strategic and an operational level. He is well educated in policy development and implementation on a strategic level and in bridging the often existing gap between first responders and policy makers.
Developing himself from operational fire officer within regional government to strategic policy advisor on a national level, he is highly experienced in all levels of government.
Peters more recent experiences include as head of advisors and project manager delivering results in a challenging surrounding, where several stakeholders are influencing the projects and their results.
As project manager of numerous EU funded projects. Peter has also represented the Netherlands on several EU expert groups and as the national training coordinator for EU civil protection training with responsibility for international deployment of experts in the EU civil protection mechanism. With this role, he is very familiar with the EU commission and its working methods and culture and can help you 'find your way around' in this extremely complex operating environment.
Peter is an experienced team leader within the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism with 8 deployments as Team leader in disaster response and needs assessment mission.
Peter is an experienced evaluator both in civil protection and in horizon 2020 projects and proposals.
With a high cultural experience and awareness, Peter is invaluable part of any team working in an international environment, meeting and working with people from different backgrounds and cultures - particularly preparing for and responding to disaster situations.
Jon Hall
Network Manager
Jon is the founder and Managing Director of the Resilience Advisors Network. He is a former Chief Fire Officer, head of UK fire & rescue resilience and government advisor.
More recently, Jon headed organisational development for a major UK training organisation following their purchase of the blue light training facility at Moreton-in-Marsh and was responsible for corporate training and creation of the 'School of Resilience'.
His early career saw early roles managing high-risk operations in the marine oil & gas industry which led to a long & successful career within the emergency services and as the UK government's first resilience adviser. Several years working with the training & business development teams of a professional services provider resulted in a growing portfolio of domestic and international commercial success.
In 2015, RAN was formed!
Ten years served as a Chief Fire Officer in the Midlands - Hereford & Worcester and Gloucestershire - of leading development of local & national policy and commanding a number of major incidents. Jon is a long-standing member\chairman of multi-agency Resilience Forums and regional coordinating groups overseeing planning, preparation, response and recovery phases of emergencies and infrastructure compromises including; civil unrest, major fires and repeated wide-area flooding.
Jon is currently involved with many Horizon 2020 projects, particularly with RESILOC concentrating on delivering improved resilience to local communities. On behalf of RAN, he also manages CMINE and delivery of the trial guidance methodology both of which are legacy products of the FP7 project Driver+ which ended in 2020.
A corporate member of the Institute of Fire Engineers (IFE), the Emergency Planning Society (EPS) and the Institute of Risk Management (IRM). Jon was proud to be awarded the Queens Fire Service Medal in 2014 and has, this year, been appointed a Fellow of the Institute of Strategic Risk Management.
