Carrie Speranza

Carrie Speranza, CEM, director of emergency management solutions at Esri, is responsible for cross-cutting, industry-wide strategic initiatives. Previously, Speranza worked at the District of Columbia Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, where she served as deputy director. She is the first emergency manager in the US to hold the positions of president of the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM), and chair of the FEMA National Advisory Council (NAC), and was selected as a Top 40 Under 40 Award honoree in 2021 by IAEM-USA Region 3. Speranza is a graduate of the National Emergency Management Executive Academy.