Josh oversees all public safety functions across the university, fostering a unified, community-oriented approach to ensure the safety and security of our campus community. He leads Georgetown’s police, public safety, public health, environmental health & safety, threat assessment, and emergency management teams across the university.
Prior to joining Georgetown, he served as the Chief Security Officer at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), where he oversaw FEMA’s physical security, personnel security, fraud prevention and investigation, counterintelligence, and threat management programs for its employees and facilities.
Josh has worked across federal, state, and local governments and in the private and non-profit sectors supporting homeland and national security and overall agency operations in the public health, food and agriculture, and emergency management sectors. He served as the Director of the Office of Safety, Security, and Asset Management and Chief Security Officer at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, GA. In this role, he was the senior executive responsible for policy and operations surrounding health and safety, global and domestic security, and internal crisis management for CDC employees, contractors, and visitors. He also directed all facilities planning, engineering, maintenance, design and construction services, real property management, intelligence and counterintelligence activities, work/life wellness initiatives, sustainability, logistics, and transportation and fleet services.
Josh began his career with the federal government at CDC as a Presidential Management Fellow after completing a Bachelor’s in Political Science at Emory University and a Master’s in Public Administration with a focus on disaster management at Georgia State University. He was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in February 2018 as the Deputy Director for the Office of Homeland Security in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In addition to his government career, Josh also served as the first Director of Safety and Security for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
Josh has obtained extensive experience in emergency management, safety, and security through leading and supporting federal, state, and local government responses throughout his career, and was awarded the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Service in 2023, the second-highest award for federal career senior executives.