Ken Harper
Emergency Management
Ken has 35 years experience in the Fire Service. He was Deputy Chief Fire Officer for Northern Ireland until 1999 when he was appointed National Commander for the New Zealand Fire Service. He has extensive experience in Media Relations and as a Winston Churchill Fellow studied, ‘How to Influence Human Behaviour in Fire in the U.S.A.’
Ken has spoken at Conferences and Work Shops around the world and was a keynote Speaker at The First International Conference on Terrorism held in Washington in 1995. As an international Spokesman, he has lectured, advised and trained Personnel and Agencies in North America and Australasia over a 12 year period. As an Incident Commander for many years he has extensive hands-on experience of major events caused by Terrorism in Northern Ireland, and has advised internationally on Emergency Management and Dynamic Risk Assessment for First Responders.
He has directed courses to students throughout the Middle East on the management of fire command, at the International Fire Engineering College in Oman. Ken currently sits on Government Departmental Boards in Northern Ireland, and co-ordinates all aspects of International Training, Inter-operability and Multi Agency Training for PGS.