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Patrick LagadecPhD in Political Science, graduate of the ESSEC school of business and the EHESS school of social sciences. Officer of the National Order of Merit, he was awarded the Forum Engelberg prize in 1999.ProfilePatrick Lagadec is Director of Research at the Ecole Polytechnique. He is member of: the French Academy of Technologies, the European Crisis Management Academy, and the Scientific and Technical Council of the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC). Recent consulting activities“Rapid Reflection Force”: operational implementation of the concept within Electricité de France, during a pandemic flu exercise. (Sept. 2006)"Critical Networks and Katrina: Unconventional Crises Challenges, Response and Policy", on behalf of EDF, with Xavier Guilhou, Jean-Pierre Roche, Daniel Madet, Erwann Lagadec. (Feb-April 2006). “Preparation for Unconventional Crises”, seminar for the Swiss Federal Strategic Leadership Training Centre, Federal Chancellery, Bern. (April 2006). “Learning from SARS in Toronto to Prepare a Potential Flu Pandemic”, on behalf of EDF (Nov. 2005). “After the Anthrax Crisis, The Paris Initiative”, international debriefing, on behalf of La Poste (2002).
Selected publication citationsBooks and Book Chapters Patrick Lagadec: “Crisis Management in the Twenty-First Century – “Unthinkable” Events in “Unthinkable” Contexts”, in Havidan Rodriguez, Enrico L. Quarantelli, and Russel R. Dynes: Handbook of Disaster Research, Springer, September 2006. (Chapter 30, pp. 489-507). [http://www.springer.com/france/home/social+sciences/sociology?SGWID=7-40440-22-139763261-detailsPage=ppmmedia%7CaboutThisBook] Enrico L. Quarantelli, Patrick Lagadec, Arjen Boin: “A Heuristic Approach to Future Disasters and Crises: New, Old and In-Between Types”, in R. Dynes, H. Quarantelli, H. Rodriguez, Handbook of Disaster Research, Springer, September 2006. (Chapter 2, pp. 16-41) [http://www.springer.com/france/home/social+sciences/sociology?SGWID=7-40440-22-139763261-detailsPage=ppmmedia%7CaboutThisBook] Patrick Lagadec and Erwann Michel-Kerjan: “The Paris Initiative: Anthrax and Beyond – Transnational Collaboration Among Interdependent Critical Networks”, in Philip Auerswald, Lewis M. Brancomb, Todd M. LaPorte and Erwann Michel-Kerjan (eds): Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response. How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability, Cambridge University Press, september 2006. (Chapter 25, pp. 457-480).
Articles Michel Nesterenko and Patrick Lagadec: “Complexity and Chaos”, Crisis Response Journal, Vol 3, Issue 1, December 2006. http://www.patricklagadec.net/fr/pdf/Crisis_nester.pdf Patrick Lagadec, Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan, and Ryan N. Ellis: "Disaster via Airmail - The Launching of a Global Reaction Capacity After the 2001 Anthrax Attacks", Innovations, The MIT Press, Technology/Governance/ Globalization, Philip E. Auerswald and Iqbal Z. Quadir, Editors, Summer 2006, p. 99-117. http://www.patricklagadec.net/fr/pdf/INNOV0103_p99-117_lagadec.pdf Patrick Lagadec: “The borderline of chaos”, Crisis Response Journal, Vol. 2, Issue 3, June 2006, p. 62-63 . Patrick Lagadec: "Civil disturbance: an unconventional crisis", Crisis Response Journal, Vol. 2, Issue 1, December 2005, p. 10-11. Lagadec, Patrick, "Understanding the French 2003 Heat Wave Experience: Beyond the Heat, a Multi-Layered Challenge”, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Vol. 12, pp. 160-169, December 2004. Editor, Special issue “Anthrax and Beyond”, Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management , Volume 11 Number 3, 2003. Press Patrick Lagadec and Erwann Michel-Kerjan: “A New Era Calls for a New Model”, International Herald Tribune, November 1, 2005 (Katrina, Avian Flu).
Teaching and TrainingPatrick Lagadec has led a large number of ad hoc seminars for students in many leading academic institutions – Ecole des Mines de Paris, Ecole des Ponts, National School of Administration, Paris University – and the advanced preparation of top level decision-makers such as prefects, judges and inspectors in the public sector and executive board members of some of the most prominent corporations, in dealing with emerging crises.
VideosPatrick Lagadec has produced a series of filmed interviews with people of prominent responsibility in dealing with complex crises. These videos are used during seminars. Among the experts interviewed are: Mike Granatt, former Head of the Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Prime Minister's Office, London; Roy Williams, Director, Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (Katrina); Christopher Babbs, Royal Mail (Anthrax); James Ellson, Technical Advisor 9/11.
Editorial ResponsibilitiesPatrick Lagadec is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Blackwell. http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0966-0879. He is also special advisor for unconventional crises to the editorial committee of the Crisis Response Journal (UK). http://www.crisisresponsejournal.com
Media ExpertisePatrick Lagadec is regularly invited by television, radio and the press – especially during crisis episodes - to present his expertise live. He welcomes media enquiries on the following subjects: crises, chaotic dynamics, preparation and learning efforts. As outlined in: Mike Granatt and Patrick Lagadec: "Ethics for Media Commentators", Crisis Response Journal, Vol. 2, Issue 1, December 2005, p. 36-37.http://www.patricklagadec.net/fr/pdf/036-037_lagadec.pdf
Advisory ExpertisePatrick Lagadec has on many occasions been called upon to advise parliamentary inquiries and commissions - BSE (mad cow disease), the heat wave crisis in France - and ministerial missions (1999 Storm inquiry for the Prime Minister, 2000; emerging crises in public health for the Minister of Health, 2006).
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