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Gisli Olafsson

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Gisli Olafsson has been the Emergency Response Director of NetHope since November 2010. In his current role he is responsible for emergency preparedness and emergency response activities related to ICT within the NetHope member organizations. Prior to that role he worked as a Disaster Management – Technical Advisor for Microsoft Corporation from September 2007 to October 2010. In that capacity, Gisli was responsible for providing guidance to international organizations, such as UN, IFRC, World Bank, Commonwealth, USAID and NATO, on the effective use of information and communication technology (ICT) to enhance response to natural disasters. Gisli joined Microsoft as Lead Program Manager in the Microsoft SQL Server team in June 1998 after mor Gisli Olafsson has been the Emergency Response Director of NetHope since November 2010. In his current role he is responsible for emergency preparedness and emergency response activities related to ICT within the NetHope member organizations. Prior to that role he worked as a Disaster Management – Technical Advisor for Microsoft Corporation from September 2007 to October 2010. In that capacity, Gisli was responsible for providing guidance to international organizations, such as UN, IFRC, World Bank, Commonwealth, USAID and NATO, on the effective use of information and communication technology (ICT) to enhance response to natural disasters. Gisli joined Microsoft as Lead Program Manager in the Microsoft SQL Server team in June 1998 after more than 15 years of successful experience as a software developer and program manager for companies such as Xerox, Medtronic and Nervus Systems. Gisli was part of the leadership team for the Icelandic subsidiary of Microsoft from its establishment in 2003, until he started his Disaster Management Advisor role in 2007. Gisli has over 15 years of experience in the field of disaster management and is an active member of the United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team, a team of experienced disaster managers which are on stand-by to deploy anywhere in the world on a 6 hour notice to coordinate the first response of the international community to disasters on behalf of the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Gisli was also a team leader for Iceland's international Urban Search and Rescue team (ICE-SAR) which is classified as a medium USAR team by the UN. Gisli was the team leader for ICE-SAR in the Haiti Earthquake in 2010. Gisli has years of experience as an incident commander and served as part of Iceland’s National Search and Rescue Command for years. Gisli was a lead member of King County’s Emergency Operation Centre’s Support team while living in Seattle and took part in coordinating over 100 disaster management and SAR incidents. In recent years Gisli has participated in disaster field missions in connections with floods in Ghana (2007), Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (2008), Hurricane Ike in Texas (2008), Sichuan Earthquake (2008), Pandemic Outbreak (2009), West Sumatra Earthquake (2009), Haiti Earthquake (2010), Japan Earthquake/Tsunami (2011),Horn of Africa famine (2011), and Typhoons Bopha (2012) and Haiyan (2013) in the Philippines.

Gisli currently lives in Seattle with his wife, five teenage children and dog. ...more

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What gets me excited about Project Loon?

One of the critical issues we often face after a disaster is that the communication infrastructure has been affected. Even when cell towers are still standing, the power infrastructure is severely damaged and often it takes days or weeks to restore these terrestrial systems. At the same time the disaster response field is undergoing a significant shift, because survivors are now able to become a c

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	The Crisis Leader: The Art of Leadership in Times of Crisis really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leiðtogi á neyðarstund: Leið stjórnandans í gegnum áföll by Gisli Olafsson (Goodreads Author), Arnrun Eysteinsdottir (Translator) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Árið 1972 Stórviðburðir líðandi stundar í myndum og máli. Með íslenzkum sérkafla 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Spark: A Leader's Guide to Inspired Action by Gisli Olafsson (Goodreads Author), Virtual Voice (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Crisis Leader - New and Revised Edition: The Art of Leadership in Times of Crisis by Gisli Olafsson (Goodreads Author), Axel Örn Gislason (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Motivated Leader: The Art of Inspiring Yourself and Others by Gisli Olafsson (Goodreads Author), Axel Örn Gislason (Illustrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars